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LR supported by Greek shipping leaders launches Maritime Emissions Reduction Centre in Athens
Capital Group, Navios Maritime Partners, Neda Maritime Agency, Star Bulk and Thenamaris get behind initiative for a global Maritime Emissions Reduction Centre.
SMM 2016
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Babcock Secures 4th Irish OPV for Appledore Shipyard.
Babcock International Group has been awarded a contract extension, by Ireland’s Department of Defence, to provide a new Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the Irish Naval Service (INS) – building on its long - standing partnership and making it the 4th OPV, in the same...
Ship Propeller Maintenance: Polish or Clean? (Hydrex)
This White Paper is a practical look at ship propeller maintenance, aimed at greater fuel economy for shipowners and operators while also taking into consideration the environmental impact caused by this maintenance. The problem of propeller roughness has been well...
Turbocharger Parts, Service and Repair
Turbo Internacional is an independent multi-brand turbocharger service company solely dedicated to the maintenance, repair & sale of exhaust gas turbochargers. We are able to service to the main turbocharger brands like ABB, MAN, PBS, Mitsubishi, KBB, MTU & Napier,...
Wastewater retrofit for Canadian Navy humanitarian vessel
Chantier Davie shipyard and the Aecon fabrication yard will be adding two ACO Marine wastewater treatment plants in a conversion job on the 23,800dwt containership Asterix. The project is part of the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) Project Resolve, supporting humanitarian...
Besiktas, Lisnarve and Gemak among those celebrating Posidonia deals
Shipyards in Turkey and Portugal were among the first to conclude business deals during the first few days of Posidonia. “We have concluded three major deals during the first two days of Posidonia. Of those, two are repair projects for a tanker and a bulk carrier and...
Hull and propeller performance ISO standard passes final hurdle
ISO 19030, a first-ever International Standard designed to enable reliable hull and propeller efficiency measurement, is finally nearing publication. Development of the Standard has taken over 12,000 hours of development work involving 53 expert stakeholders across...
Auto-diagnostics save fuel for “K” Line
In the the first commercial application of ClassNK Consulting's machinery condition monitoring and automatic diagnostic system, “K” Line Ship Management (Singapore) is adopting 'CMAXS LC-A' for use on one of its container vessels. “K” Line conducted a successful trial...
Posidonia focus on Ballast Water Treatment
Nearly 60 ballast water treatment specialist companies are participating at this year’s Posidonia Exhibition, in anticipation of the ratification of the BWT Convention which is expected to come into force before the end of 2016. Despite the increased attention, some...
Wärtsilä launch new edition of Ship Technology Encyclopedia
The second edition of Wärtsilä’s Encyclopedia of Ship Technology has been at the Nor-Shipping exhibition and conference in Oslo. The publication provides definitions to the current terminology used in the marine industry’s technical vocabulary. It is intended as a...
Canadian con-ro pair drydocked in Gibraltar
Gibdock has demonstrated that its strong reputation for ro-ro and container ship repair work continues to resonate around the globe, following the drydocking of two con-ro vessels operated by Canadian shipowner, Oceanex. Oceanex provides intermodal transportation...
MacGregor to supply winches for wave-power project
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won an order to supply highly-specialised winches for a pilot project using an innovative system that generates electricity from waves. The system is called NEMOS and it is ideally suited to work in combination with offshore wind...
Hamburg Port Authority takes delivery of Damen floating pump station “Sauger III”
Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has taken delivery of the Sauger III, a custom floating pump station by Damen Shipyards Group for supporting dredging operations. Situated 110 km inland on the River Elbe and with a tidal range of 3.6 metres, the Hamburg Port requires...
ABB’s Marine Software installing for entire Cosco Heavy Transport fleet
ABB will be supplying its onboard motion monitoring and forecasting system to the Xiang Rui Kou heavy lift vessel, competing the entire fleet of Cosco Heavy Transport. The system to will be installed is a mixed software and motion measurement set-up that on one hand...
Wärtsilä get RoRo contract
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to provide integrated turnkey electrical solutions for four new RoRo ferries being built at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) yard in Germany. The electrical systems to be delivered include all products and services...