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Shell offers smart solutions to reduce costs
Shell Marine is introducing its Marine Integrated Lubrication and Expert Solutions (MILES) programme, its new and unique approach in lubricants management. This new initiative includes combining purchasing options, services and an extensive range of lubricant products...
Vestdavit PAP-16000 brings new davit lifting force to market
Vestdavit has completed its largest ever single-point A-frame davit for over the side boat handling, rising to the continuing challenge set by customers to be able to launch and retrieve ever larger workboats from their ships. The first PAP-16000 davit, which features...
Wärtsilä invests in strengthening its turbocharger services
Technology group Wärtsilä invests in expanding its offering and global service workshop footprint in turbocharger services. Over 20 Wärtsilä service workshops globally are equipped with full capability to service turbochargers. With this investment, Wärtsilä is able...
Drydocks World-Dubai promoting conversion to seawater lubricated bearings.
Thordon Bearings and Drydocks World-Dubai have signed an agreement to work together to promote the conversion of ships’ oil lubricated propeller shafts to Thordon’s COMPAC open seawater lubricated bearing system. The agreement will create an action plan in which a...
Roxtec win ABS recognition
Roxtec Services has proven its capabilities to perform inspection and maintenance of cable and pipe penetration seals to the classification society ABS, as well as its ability to conduct training for people working with sealing solutions. The company has also been...
Costly bilge water non-compliance – new white paper
A white paper from Alfa Laval addresses ship owner concerns to ensure vessel compliance with bilge water regulations worldwide. Even if a traditional system with type approval is operating on board, the paper states, there are still risks of violating applicable laws...
Damen orders 110th crane from Liebherr
A longstanding partnership between Damen Shipyards and leading crane manufacturer Liebherr was celebrated with the announcement that Damen has ordered its 110th crane from Liebherr. The two family-owned companies have worked together since 1985. The 110th order was...
Hydrex expand Antwerp facilities
Antwerp Port Authority has supported Hydrex Underwater Technologies’ plan to expand its existing 5000m² site on Asiadok on the River Scheldt with new workshops and offices. As part of its expansion, the result of organic growth over the past two years, Hydrex has also...
Wärtsilä working with shipyards to ease retrofitting of Ballast Water Management systems
Technology group Wärtsilä is in the process of signing agreements with a number of major shipyards, the latest being Keppel Shipyard Ltd (KSL) of Singapore. The agreements are intended to establish cooperation and communication between the parties in relation to the...
Damen Shiprepair Brest completes maintenance on LNG carrier Gaselys
Damen Shiprepair Brest has completed a renewal survey maintenance programme on the 290-metre LNG carrier Gaselys. Co-owned by NYK Line of Japan and ENGIE (formerly GDF SUEZ), operated by Gazocean and chartered by ENGIE, the ten-year old vessel came into DSBr for a...
Damen and Keppel agree on the acquisition of Keppel Verolme
Damen Shipyards Group has entered into an agreement with Keppel Offshore & Marine for the acquisition of the Keppel Verolme shipyard in the Rotterdam Botlek area. With the acquisition of the Verolme shipyard, Damen takes the next step in strengthening its repair and...
Fleet Auxiliary tanker comes to A&P for custom work
A&P Group’s Falmouth facility has welcomed the first of a new class of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) tankers, RFA Tidespring, to the UK. A&P Group has been awarded the Ministry of Defence (MOD) contract to customise and fit out of the RFA’s new fleet of four Tide class...
Maritime Training Academy launches unique Superyacht Surveying Diploma course
Superyachts – glamorous, opulent, seen in all the world’s most exclusive marinas. But, with size comes big risks. And that is where the qualified Superyacht Surveyor comes in. The Maritime Training Academy is launching a new and unique qualification for maritime...
Wärtsilä to provide BWT for Minerva Marine
Wärtsilä will be supplying globally operating tanker vessels managed by Minerva Marine Inc. with Aquarius ballast water management systems (BWMS). The agreement covers the retrofit of several vessels and represents an important milestone in the BWMS retrofit market....
Advice on polar capability of deck machinery issued
With the Polar Code now in force, Thordon Bearings has urged shipowners and managers to verify that their vessels’ deck machinery and systems can operate safely in the extreme temperatures encountered in Arctic and Antarctic seas. Scott Groves, Thordon Bearings...