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Roxtec launches new tank boundary solution for the maritime sector
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Cruise Ship Interiors Expo Miami Announces First Conference Speakers
Cruise Ship Interiors Expo Miami is a free-to-attend event catering exclusively to the cruise interiors industry. Industry experts from Norwegian Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Seabourn, and Studio DADO will speak at the conference. The inaugural expo will take...
Opinion: Alfa Laval mark 10 years of PureSOx scrubbers
from Alfa Laval The arrival of 2019 leaves just one year until the global sulphur cap becomes reality. But as the marine industry scrambles to ready itself, an important milestone has already been reached. The new year marks a decade since the first vessel set sail...
ASRY announce sharp increase in scrubber business
Bahrain yard ASRY have announced that Ballast Water and Scrubber Installations are on the rise. As expected, with deadlines looming, the number of enquiries and orders regarding installations of ballast water treatment systems and sulphur scrubbers has risen sharply....
Survitec wins global safety inspections certification
Survitec has received DNV GL Z-17 certification as a class-approved service provider for all DNV-GL classed vessels operating various brands of safety and survival equipment, including lifeboats, liferafts, marine evacuation systems (MES) and fire-fighting equipment...
Opinion: Fujairah ban on scrubber discharge
The EGCSA (Exhausts Gas Cleaning Systems Association) has issued a statement concerning the ban by the Port of Fujairah on open-loop exhaust gas cleaning system wash water discharge. Don Gregory, director of the EGCSA, says, “We are disappointed to learn of the ban by...
Damen Shiprepair Brest completes refit of Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth
Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth has left Damen Shiprepair Brest (DSBr) following a 12-day repair and refit programme. She is the most recent addition to the Cunard fleet, having been delivered in 2010. The programme was highly intensive with a series of major systems being...
Mobile BWT system for Gran Canaria demo
An InvaSave 300 Mobile Ballast Water Treatment System has been transported from Damen Green Solution’s premises in Gorinchem, the Netherlands, to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to be used for a demonstration programme as part of the “Atlantic Blue Port Services” project,...
MEPC73 guidance on BWTS welcomed
Regulatory guidance on the use of indicative analysis methods to validate the commissioning of installed ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) on newbuild ships has been welcomed by Canada-based biotechnology specialist LuminUltra as a positive development for the...
Esvagt turns to Vestdavit for high seas windfarm boat-handling
Vestdavit has reinforced its claim to be the davit supplier of choice for higher sea states after securing orders to equip three state-of-the-art Esvagt Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) destined to support windfarm maintenance in challenging North Sea conditions....
Seismic vessels complete tandem drydocking at Amsterdam
Sister-ships Oceanic Sirius and Oceanic Vega have completed a round-the-clock, 10-day maintenance programme at Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm). For eight of those days the two 106-metre vessels were in the yard’s 250-metre drydock no.4 in a tandem arrangement, to...
ACO Marine triple production for wastewater products
Ship sanitation solutions supplier ACO Marine plans to triple production at its Pribyslav plant in the Czech Republic to meet increased demand for its stainless-steel wastewater treatment products. ACO Marine Managing Director Mark Beavis explained the boom in the...
Opinion: BWMS UV Doses must be consistent
from BIO-UV Group’s President and CEO Benoît Gillmann Ballast water treatment manufacturer BIO-UV Group has noted the U.S. Administration’s approval of the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) and the possible acceptance of the Most Probable Number (MPN)...
Award for washable hull coating
Subsea Industries has won the Environmental Protection Award at the 10th IBJ Awards, held at The Eskimo Factory in Ghent. The award was presented by Ray Girvan, Publisher of International Bulk Journal and Femke Brenninkmeijer, Port of Amsterdam’s Head of Energy, Bulk,...
Opinion: Reaction to Singapore ban on open loop scrubbers
The following statement has been released by the EGCSA concerning the announced ban on open loop marine scrubber discharge by the Singapore MPA STAINES, 4 December 2018 – The IMO legislated to introduce a 0.5 % sulphur cap for all shipping vessels from 2020 with the...
Salt lugger solves bearing issues with water
Thordon Bearings has completed a range of water-lubricated and grease-free bearing installations to a third salt lugger in the Salinor/Navenor fleet, following the successful retrofitting of bearings to problematic newbuilds. The Brazilian owner opted for the Thordon...