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  • Capt Kapil Dev Bahl will join Bibby Ship Management from Murray Fenton India as director – technical services
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    Bibby Ship Management acquires Murray Fenton (India)

    2013-11-08T15:18:00Z

    Bibby Ship Management Group has announced the acquisition of Murray Fenton (India) Surveyors Limited.

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    Data logging system simplifies fuel savings

    2013-11-08T15:18:00Z

    A Dutch company, RRIsis, says that its intelligent fuel monitoring system can help cut fuel consumption and emissions without increasing the workload onboard.

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    Reliable PSM level transmitters

    2013-11-06T16:31:00Z

    PSM Instrumentation is flying the flag for robust and reliable PSM level transmitters to replace older obsolete technology for level measurement such as bubbler systems.

  • Schottel and Topec are joining forces to engineer and manufacture the new-generation Nav propulsion units
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    Schottel launches new Navigator with Dutch partner

    2013-11-06T16:23:00Z

    Schottel of Germany has announced that for its revamped Navigator (Nav) propulsion unit, it will be partnering with Dutch company Topec.

  • Operations will be closed down at Rauma shipyard
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    STX negotiates shipyard restructuring

    2013-11-06T12:17:00Z

    STX Finland has completed major restructuring negotiations that will see a shift in operations to safeguard the future of the company and Finland’s extended maritime industry.

  • Hatlapa's sales contribution to MacGregor is expected to be around €20m
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    MacGregor completes Hatlapa acquisition

    2013-11-06T11:00:00Z

    Cargotec’s MacGregor business has completed the acquisition of Hatlapa in a transaction valued at approximately €160m.

  • Alexia 80 relative performance vs closest operating conditions in Bolnes corrosive regime (reference oil Alexia 50)
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    Two new high base number cylinder oils from Shell

    2013-11-05T18:13:00Z

    Shell Marine Lubricants is introducing two new products to the Shell Alexia range of cylinder oils for large high-performance two-stroke marine engines.

  • Installation and implementation of MMC ballast water management system onboard ‘Sanco Swift’
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    Norwegian BWTS successes

    2013-11-05T18:13:00Z

    Norwegian company MMC Green Technology says that its ballast water treatment system (BWTS) has achieved 28 orders so far and has received approval from DNV as well as being AMS certified for use in US waters.

  • Pistons for medium-speed diesel and gas engines are to be produced in China
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    New large-bore piston plant in China

    2013-11-05T18:13:00Z

    German company KS Kolbenschmidt, a subsidiary of automotive components group KSPG, has established a large-bore piston factory specifically for the Asian markets.

  • Melanie Schultz: "Intelligent, clean shipping is the future."
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    Level playing field at Europort 2013

    2013-11-05T16:24:00Z

    This year’s Europort was opened this week by Melanie Schultz van Haegen, minister of infrastructure and the environment of the Netherlands, who called for a sustained innovation and an “international level playing field”.

  • The ‘MOL Comfort’  incident is being used to establish countermeasures to prevent the occurrence of similar casualties in the future
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    MOL Comfort preliminary findings

    2013-11-05T15:19:00Z

    The ClassNK Casualty Investigation Team has released preliminary findings and safety measures following the loss of the container vessel MOL Comfort.

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    Maersk orders new MR vessels

    2013-11-04T17:35:00Z

    Maersk Tankers has ordered four new MR vessels with South Korea’s Sungdong Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering as part of its strategy to gradually update its fleet.

  • GE's DPS is more "mariner friendly"
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    GE Power advanced Hornbeck subsea vessels

    2013-11-04T09:30:00Z

    GE Power is to supply its latest generation dynamic positioning (DP) technology for Hornbeck Offshore’s four new multipurpose supply vessels (MPSVs).

  • Szczecin shipyard - photo by Nanc1, Wikipedia Commons
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    Kleven eyeing investment in Polish shipyard

    2013-11-04T08:17:00Z

    Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven is planning to invest in Poland’s bankrupt Nowa Shipyard in Szczecin, according to reports in the local media, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

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    Shipyard De Hoop secures PSV contract

    2013-11-01T17:02:00Z

    Shipyard De Hoop is to build its newly designed platform supply vessel (PSV) for Trinidad’s Delta Logistics.

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    WSS dry docking solution

    2013-11-01T14:00:00Z

    Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has launched a new streamlined dry docking service which aims to integrate ships agency, safety and equipment services into a single source.

  • Hyundai is set to raise the competitive tempo in the wide-bore medium-speed engine market with the HiMSEN H46/60V
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    Hyundai shows its mettle with powerful new medium-speed

    2013-11-01T13:59:00Z

    David Tinsley explains how, In the unerring drive to expand the market reach of its home-grown HiMSEN range of four-stroke engines, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is preparing to launch the H46/60V diesel, the brand’s most powerful design to date.

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    287 large bore engines on order

    2013-11-01T00:30:00Z

    The hot topic in the November 1963 issue of The Motor Ship continued to be large bore engines. The fact that these were now firmly established in the ship propulsion universe was borne out by a five-page list of such engines in service and on order, grouped by engine type.

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    Keeping the news alive

    2013-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Much has changed in maritime publishing in the last few years, and we are now very much part of the digital revolution.

  • Caterpillar’s M46DF engine features new cylinder pressure based control strategies, as reported to the CIMAC Congress 2013
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    Dual-fuel MaK engine hosts advance in control technology

    2013-10-31T23:00:00Z

    David Tinsley looks at the MaK dual fuel engine range, the first of which has now been shipped by the Caterpillar corporation for installation in a newbuild cruise vessel.