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SIMRAD have announced a new IMO type approved radar solution for use aboard CAT 3 SOLAS vessels, workboats, tugs and coastal fishing boats. The R3016 12U/6X has a 12-kilowatt X-Band transceiver and 6-foot open array scanner, designed for high reliability and low...

ABB has won a wide scope of orders to deliver propulsion systems for two new cruise ships to be built by the Lloyd Werft Group in Germany, for Crystal Cruises’ ‘Exclusive Class’ announced last year. ABB will deliver four of its acclaimed Azipod XO units – a gearless...

DNV GL has created a new class notation to help shipowners prepare their newbuildings for the installation of a scrubber. SCRUBBER READY ensures that the necessary preparations are in place for a smooth and cost-efficient scrubber retrofit at a later stage. “There is...

Viking Cruises are starting an annual deck maintenance programme offered by Bolidt Synthetic Products & Systems. 32 vessels - more than half of the Viking Cruises fleet – will have their decking cleaned and renewed at various European ports this winter, with the...

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has alerted shipowners to replace onboard Ocenco M-20.2 Emergency Escape Breathing Devices (EEBDs) as their 15-year lifespan draws to a close at the beginning of 2017. In July 2002, when SOLAS amendment regulations II-2/13.3.4 and 13.4.3...

Subsea Global Solutions have been named exclusive U.S.-based service agent for Lagersmit, the Netherlands-based manufacturer of sealing solutions for the maritime, dredging, industrial, water and energy markets. SGS will provide service, installation and repair...

Thordon Bearing’s revolutionary COMPAC seawater-lubricated propeller shaft bearing system has been nominated in the Auxiliary Machinery category of the European Marine Engineering Awards, to take place in Amsterdam, next month. Thorn offer a 15-year guarantee for...

Iskes Towage & Salvage took delivery of a new Damen ASD 2411 in November 2015. In its first 100 days, the tug has been performing vessel assistance duties in the locks and canals around the Dutch Ports of Amsterdam and IJmuiden. Three months after delivery of the...

Hydrex report one of their diving teams recently mobilized to a 170-meter container vessel in Rotterdam to install a doubler plate over the cavitated area of the ship’s rudder during a scheduled maintenance stop in the port. The plate had been pre-shaped in advance to...

ABB will be providing technology to help three vessels safely carry out construction and maintenance tasks up to 5 kilometers under water.The vessels will be equipped with ABB’s OCTOPUS software, using sensors and the 'Internet of Things, Services and People' (IoTSP)...

A diver/technician team from Hydrex performed a successful propeller blade cropping operation on a 229-meter bulker under difficult weather circumstances, with the vessel was at anchorage in Punta Del Este. When the propeller blades of the bulker were damaged, a fast...

Sea trials of Thordon Bearings COMPAC propeller shaft have completed aboard Greenland, the world’s first LNG-fuelled short-sea dry bulk vessel. Greenland, a 5800dwt self-loading/unloading cement carrier built under the EU-TEN-T funded Pilot LNG project for the JT...

Following the approval of Selektope ® under the EU’s Biocidal Products Regulation, developer I-Tech reports a good uptake for antifouling coatings the anti-fouling agent. I-Tech CEO Philip Chaabane says there is higher than anticipated demand from shipowners, and...