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Amasus signs second contract with bound4blue
Amasus signs second contract with bound4blue for world’s largest suction sail system on a general cargo vessel
Maersk Fluid Technology automates SEA-Mate® Blending-on-Board Technology
Maersk Fluid Technology (MFT) have advanced their SEA-Mate® Blending-on-Board (BOB) technology with integrated software that automates the system’s function to produce Fit-for-Purpose cylinder lubricants using data received from sensors onboard. Originally developed...
Refit for jack-up MPI Enterprise in Rotterdam
Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) has completed a refit project on the MPI Enterprise, a 120-metre, self-elevating, DP2, wind turbine installation vessel owned and operated by MPI Offshore, part of the Vroon Group. The works included the installation of spudcans on her...
Alfa white paper details impact of MARPOL Annex VI fuel strategies on boilers and burners
Picture: Jeroen Van Riel, Global Service Manager, Boiler Service, Alfa Laval Alfa Laval has released a new white paper exploring the impact of fuel choices for complying with MARPOL Annex VI on boiler and burner operation. “MARPOL Annex VI fuel strategies and their...
Newport shipping add Singapore, Indonesia, China facilities
UK-headquartered Newport Shipping has added to its global network of ship repair yards with facilities in Singapore, Indonesia and China, following the signing of a cooperation agreement with Singapore-based PaxOcean. The agreement, specific to PaxOcean’s Pertama...
Alexis Marine to retrofit salt lugger bearings
Louisiana-based workboat operator Alexis Marine has awarded a supply contract to Thordon Bearings for the retrofitting of 6in diameter RiverTough bearings to MV Kristin Alexis, the 60ft (18.2m) twin-screw towboat built by Bollinger Shipyard in 1969. Both the vessel’s...
Conversion preparations for Europe’s first LNG dredger get underway
Work has begun at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque on the conversion of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Samuel de Champlain from diesel-electric propulsion to dual-fuel capability combining MGO and LNG. A ceremony was held at the yard to mark the first cutting of...
PG Flow Solutions to supply FPSO water booster pumps
BW Offshore has contracted liquid handling and pump specialist PG Flow Solutions to supply water booster pumps to the FPSO operator’s life extension project for the Polvo FPSO. PG Flow Solutions’ scope of work is the engineering, procurement, assembly of pump skid and...
Posidonia sets compass for future global shipping agenda
The biennial Posidonia 2018 Conference Programme is once again upon us with its trademark thought provoking constellation of conferences, seminars, workshops and heated panel discussions which are yet again set to shape the global shipping agenda and define the future...
Vibration problem solved with water lubricated prop shaft bearing
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) has again selected Thordon Bearings’ COMPAC water lubricated propeller shaft bearing system for two icebreakers, one of which has recently completed extensive upgrade work at the Chantier Davie Canada shipyard, in Lévis, Québec. CCG, a...
Polsteam and Nova Ship Tech SA select Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 for installation throughout their fleets
Alfa Laval has signed fleet agreements with Polsteam and Nova Ship Tech SA for the supply of PureBallast 3, the third generation of Alfa Laval’s ballast water treatment technology. Under the agreements, Alfa Laval will provide dozens of Polsteam and Nova Ship Tech SA...
Newport Shipping offer new repair financing solution
UK-headquartered Newport Shipping Group has appointed a new executive team and refocused its business proposition to provide comprehensive drydocking, repair services and financing to the global shipping industry. A key element of the company’s new service portfolio...
RIMS teams up with Dutch Drone Company to offer full drone package services
RIMS have joined forces with Dutch Drone Company (DDC) to create a new partnership which will allow RIMS to offer the market an enhanced package of drone services for both indoor and outdoor drone flights in the Netherlands. The use of drones for inspections enables...
Opinion: Fifty shades of grey plastic
The industry must limit plastic pollution from grey water waste streams with the same regulatory control it has in place for sewage, says ACO Marine Grey water, that is to say domestic waste other than sewage, is largely unregulated. Yet it can form the larger...
Two floating docks arrive at Damen Shiprepair Curaçao
Following a 26-day voyage across the North Atlantic, two floating docks have arrived at Damen Shiprepair Curaçao (DSCu) in the southern Caribbean, fulfilling the undertaken given by Damen to the Government of Curaçao when it took over the yard in 2017. The two docks...
TMC to equip Swan Energy FSRU
TMC Compressors of the Seas (TMC) has signed two contracts to supply a total of five marine compressors to a floating storage regasifaction unit (FSRU) that Hyundai Heavy Industries is building for Swan Energy Ltd. TMC has signed a contract directly with Hyundai Heavy...