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Jumbo installs wind assisted propulsion
Jumbo has successfully installed two mechanical sails to Heavy Lift Vessel (HLV) Jumbo Jubilee
Damen Marine Components and Van der Velden Marine Systems announce merger
Damen Marine Components and Van der Velden Marine Systems have announced a merger, with the two companies are operating together as Damen Marine Components Netherlands. DMC has been operating ever since the early eighties of the last century in the Damen Shipyards...
Smart Engine, Smart Ship
Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group recently signed, the first agreement of its kind to integrate their advanced digital technologies to provide greater insight and benefit to ship owners from their engine and ship data. This...
River Cruise gets cost-effective water treatment
ACO Marine has been awarded contracts to supply its advanced wastewater treatment technology as retrofit solutions to river cruise vessels operating on European waterways. The 232-passenger capacity sisters Ukraina and Moldavia, undergoing refit work at the Ukrainian...
Guest Editorial: Will the implementation of the Sulphur Cap 2020 be delayed?
by Mr. Kim Yeon-tae, Executive Director, Korean Register Two of the most discussed issues in the international maritime industry in recent years have been the implementation of Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC) and the approaching Sulphur Cap 2020. The...
Foreship counsels caution on expedition ship rush
Booming demand for expedition ships should not mean that good and safe shipbuilding practices for passenger vessels are compromised, leading naval architecture and engineering company Foreship has warned. The consultancy, which has more cruise ship construction,...
US Army Hopper Dredger repairs completed
World Marine of Alabama (WMA) has completed work on a contract valued at over $14 million to drydock and repair the Dredge Wheeler, a hopper dredge owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.The contract was awarded in September; arrival was delayed due to...
BIMCO relaunch ship benchmarking system
BIMCO has relaunche its ship benchmarking system Shipping KPI after two years of redesign. The system helps shipowners and managers make strategic decisions about their fleet. Shipping KPI is based on self-reporting by 300 companies and a total of 6000 ships. It...
Winterthur Gas & Diesel confirms Wärtsilä and CSSC Marine Service as global service providers
Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) have signed agreements with Wärtsilä Services and CSSC Marine Service Co. Ltd. (CMS) as Authorized Global Service Providers. With these new agreements, valid from January 1st, 2018, both providers can now offer support for all...
Turkish new builds get glass-flake hull protection
Two newbuild projects at Turkish shipyards have been protected using specialist coatings from Belgian coatings company Subsea Industries. Its Ecospeed hull coating and Ecoshield rudder protection coating have both been applied to a shallow-draught AHTS (anchor...
Scrubbers leading to extra pipework corrosion
Underwater repair experts Hydrex have recorded an increase in repairs to the pipe work and overboard outlets of those ships that have exhaust gas scrubbers installed. Diver/technicians from the underwater repair specialist recently carried out pipe replacements on...
Ballast water analysis ISO in preparation
picture: Carine Magdo, business development manager, aqua-tools Paris-based aqua-tools is to participate in the formulation of an international standard for ballast water sampling and analysis. The company, which specialises in the biological monitoring of water...
Jack-up vessel Seafox 5 departs after refit
The 151-metre, self-propelled, DP2 jack-up rig Seafox 5 has left the Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) shipyard following a four-month refit in which the boom of its main crane was lengthened to prepare it for a new contract, along with a range of maintenance and other...
Canal Barge Company orders another Becker Flap Rudder retrofit
The US office of Becker Marine Systems has announced a retrofit order of a set of Becker Flap Rudders, placed by the Canal Barge Company, Inc. Canal Barge Company is a family-owned, independent marine transportation company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana....
LED panels proposed for marine fouling prevention
AkzoNobel is to develop a revolutionary fouling prevention technology which uses ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LED). The pioneering solution – which uses underlying technology developed by Royal Philips – will be applied to underwater surfaces to eliminate...
Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 first to market with revised G8 certificate
Alfa Laval PureBallast 3, the third generation of the market’s leading ballast water treatment technology, is the first solution to meet the revised IMO G8 testing requirements. DNV GL, acting on behalf of the Norwegian Maritime Authority, issued an updated type...