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  • DSIC delivered a 325,000dwt VLOC to SK Shipping on 20 April. The delivery was the first since the group restarted shipbuilding activities. (Picture courtesy of DSIC)
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    DSIC delivers VLOC for sea trial

    2020-04-21T12:30:00Z

    Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) announced that SK Shipping''s 325,000 dwt very large ore carrier K.Iron Mountain has left the shipyard to begin sea trials. The bulker represents the first delivery since the resumption of work at the shipyard in February.

  • Hyundai Heavy's 'Hyundai Intelligent Navigation Assistant System' was retrofitted to an operational 250,000 dwt SK Shipping bulk carrier.
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    Hyundai retrofits new AI navigation tool to bulker

    2020-04-20T13:33:00Z

    Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has successfully retrofitted its ''Hyundai Intelligent Navigation Assistant System'' (HiNAS) navigation tool to a 250,000 dwt bulker operated by SK Shipping. HHI claims this is the first time a large operational vessel has been fitted with an AI-assisted navigation technology.

  • Scana Offshore has won its first floating wind power contract Photo: Scana Offshore
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    Scana wins first offshore wind farm contract

    2020-04-20T13:09:00Z

    Kvaerner has awarded Incus-owned Scana Offshore a contract for the supply of mooring equipment to Hywind Tampen, Equinor''s new floating wind farm in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • The IMO has commended member states’ efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus Photo: IMO
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    COVID-19: Shipping must continue, says IMO

    2020-04-20T13:02:00Z

    The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council has urged that shipping continues despite the coronavirus pandemic during its thirty-first extraordinary session, the first not to be held live in organisation’s history.

  • Vard will design and build the first SOV for operation in Taiwan.
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    Vard to design and build first SOV for Taiwanese market

    2020-04-17T22:25:00Z

    Vard, the Norwegian shipbuilder and designer, is to design and build the first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for operation in Taiwan. The order will be built at Vard''s yard in Vietnam, Vard Vung Tau, with delivery scheduled for H1 2022.

  • Ready for service: Liekut at her Flensburg yard of build. (photo credit: FSG).
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    ANOTHER RO-RO WORKHORSE FROM FLENSBURG STABLE

    2020-04-17T20:18:00Z

    Despite the earlier suspension of operations due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft has handed over its latest high-capacity ro-ro freight vessel, writes David Tinsley.

  • Stadt has introduced a variable speed option to its electric propulsion solution. (Image: Stadt)
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    Stadt extends electric propulsion solution

    2020-04-17T20:05:00Z

    Norwegian power specialist Stadt has extended the scope of its electric propulsion solution, Lean Propulsion, to maximise the operational benefits of gensets fitted with variable speed control.

  • Bulk carrier, ‘M/V Trudy’, part of MINSHIP’s managed fleet Photo: MINSHIP
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    MINSHIP bulk carrier biofuel trial

    2020-04-17T16:37:00Z

    Bavarian ship management company MINSHIP and its subsidiary MINMARINE have announced that a bulk carrier in their fleet of managed vessels has successfully bunkered biofuel at the Port of Rotterdam.

  • Remote monitoring of equipment and systems reduces the user’s involvement in maintenance issues Photo: Wärtsilä
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    Wärtsilä delivers fast remote service

    2020-04-17T16:32:00Z

    Wärtsilä has announced the launch of its global Smart Support Centre service, aimed at improving asset uptime via remote access for customers of Wärtsilä’s Voyage business, reducing the need for physical service attendance.

  • Stefan Goranov, Program Manager - Hybridisation at WinGD.
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    Into the blue: WinGD hybridisation programme takes flight

    2020-04-17T15:34:00Z

    Stefan Goranov, Program Manager - Hybridisation at engine designer WinGD discusses efficiency gains and the next steps in the engine designer’s hybridisation programme.

  • MAN ES will power six new Baltic RoRos Photo: MAN Energy Solutions
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    MAN powers new Baltic RoRos

    2020-04-16T12:49:00Z

    MAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply Tier II-compliant main engines for three RoRo vessels intended for operation in the Baltic Sea.

  • The ‘Les Alizés’ Photo: Schottel
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    Schottel propels heavy lift crane vessel

    2020-04-16T12:43:00Z

    Jan De Nul has ordered a heavy lift crane vessel capable of lifting 5,000 tonnes from the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China.

  • Delivered by Oshima last year, Southern Treasure hauls woodchips for Hokuetsu’s paper mills in Japan. (Photo credit: JSEA).
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    JAPAN REINVESTS IN NICHE WOODCHIP CARRIER SECTOR

    2020-04-15T17:49:00Z

    With China posing determined new competition, Japan’s shipbuilding industry is intent on maintaining pre-eminence in the niche sector of woodchip carrier construction, writes David Tinsley.

  • Evidence of fuel solidifying in an unheated tank (Image courtesy of LR FOBAS)
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    IMO 2020: A monumental change for the industry

    2020-04-15T17:37:00Z

    Muhammad Usman, LR’s FOBAS product manager assesses the impact of quality variance of VLSFO on machinery equipment and offers some recommendations going forward.

  • Dr Dino Imhof, Head of Turbocharging Solutions, ABB Turbocharging
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    The path to hydrogen with a zero-carbon footprint

    2020-04-15T17:24:00Z

    Renewable hydrogen is crucial to shipping’s decarbonisation. But getting there will not be easy or cheap, writes Dr Dino Imhof, Head of Turbocharging Solutions, ABB Turbocharging.

  • The Victoria of Wight ferry forms one of the case studies for the UK-funded study (picture courtesy Wightlink)
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    UK funding for marine carbon capture study

    2020-04-15T13:23:00Z

    Houlder, the design and engineering consultancy, has begun work on a six-month study to evaluate the potential marine applications of a British carbon capture technology.

  • YANMAR has reorganised its CHS engines sales department Photo: YANMAR
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    YANMAR Europe takes over CHS engine sales

    2020-04-15T12:34:00Z

    YANMAR Europe (YEU) and YANMAR Norge (YNO) have agreed to transfer all commercial high speed (CHS) engines sales and after-sales activities in Norway to YEU.

  • ABB will provide the power solution for South Asia’s first LNG hybrid tug Photo: ABB
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    ABB powers first South Asia LNG hybrid tug

    2020-04-15T11:39:00Z

    ABB’s electric propulsion, power, energy storage, control and automation technology will be deployed by the first tug in South Asia capable of switching between LNG engines and zero-emission battery power.

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    FPT diversifies via electric acquisition

    2020-04-15T10:43:00Z

    FPT Industrial, the diversified Italian conglomerate, has fully acquired Potenza Technology, a UK company specialist in the design and development of electric and hybrid electric powertrain systems.

  • Port State Control regimes
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    Pragmatic approach for PSC regimes

    2020-04-14T21:15:00Z

    Port State Control (PSC) regimes have reported that while the number of physical onboard ship inspections have reduced considerably during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, high-risk ships which may be substandard continue to be targeted.