Latest News – Page 599
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NewsWärtsilä to lay off workers in Vaasa
The Wärtsilä Corporation will be temporarily laying off 790 workers at its Delivery Centre Vaasa (DCV) in Finland.
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NewsKleven wins another Rem contract
Norwegian yard Kleven Verft has signed a contract with Rem Offshore for the building of an advanced multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel. The contract value is around 600 million NOK.
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NewsX-Bow PSVs for Singapore owner
Singapore-based owner Britoil Offshore Services has ordered a design and equipment packages for two platform supply vessels to Ulstein’s PX121 design. The ships will be built at Britoil’s own yard in Batam, Indonesia.
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NewsISS gives advice on penalty avoidance
With so many mistakes made with Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) reports, international maritime services provider, Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), is giving advice to crews on how to avoid financial penalties.
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NewsMartek Marine wins large Korean orders
UK marine equipment manufacturer, Martek Marine, has won a series of large orders for its MariNOx Evolution on-board emissions monitoring system with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries.
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NewsChevron Shipping chooses OceanSaver BWT system
Us based Chevron Shipping Company has chosen Norway’s OceanSaver’s ballast water treatment (BWT) systems for two of its Suezmax lightering tankers.
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NewsWärtsilä to power new KOC tugs
Finland''s Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded a major contract to supply 28 engines and complete propulsion systems for fourteen tugs being built by Damen Shipyards for the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
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NewsStricken tanker repaired by BLRT shipyard
BLRT Grupp’s Turku Repair Yard has successfully repaired the 250m oil tanker, ‘Kyeema Spirit’, which was damaged during a storm when the vessel ran aground near Aegna Island, near Tallinn, Estonia.
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NewsDCV 'Balder' to dock at Verolme
The Keppel Verolme yard in The Netherlands has announced a contract from Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) for the drydocking survey of the deepwater construction vessel (DCV) ‘Balder’.
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NewsDual fuel option for Greek LNG newbuilds
MAN Diesel & Turbo has won a contract to supply the engines for two 160,000m³ Greek LNG carriers. The installation of MAN 51/60DF dual-fuel engines represents the company’s first such reference in this segment.
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NewsThruster system fitted with new Lilaas technology
US based vessel control solutions company, Marine Technologies LLC, has ordered Lilaas AS’s new electronically controlled lever technology for a BridgeMate thruster control system, being built for a new Platform Support Vessel (PSV), ordered by Global Offshore.
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NewsWoes for shipowners and shipbuilders
The Motor Ship, January 1963, opened with a message from the UK Minister of Transport, the Rt Hon Ernest Marples. That reflects two facts: in those times this journal existed to promote the UK shipbuilding and marine engineering industry as well as the superiority of Diesel power over steam; and ...
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NewsCancellations sought at troubled shipyard
Receiver Berthold Brinkmann wants to cancel five newbuilding orders at insolvent German shipyard group P+S Werften in the hope of meeting EU conditions for approval of local credits to complete other orders.
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IMHA develops quality assurance programme
Maritime health body, International Maritime Health Association (IMHA), has developed a quality assurance programme to improve practice standards for seafarer medical examinations.
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Cargotec secures ro-ro equipment orders
Finnish headquartered cargo equipment specialist, Cargotec, has secured a large order for ro-ro cargo access equipment for four 45,000dwt container ro-ro vessels for Italian shipping company Ignazio Messina.
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NewsThousandth RT-flex engine order
Wärtsilä says that the 1,000th order has been placed for its low-speed two-stroke RT-flex marine diesel engines, which feature full electronic control and common-rail fuel systems.
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NewsNew German LPG series nears completion
A series of six 5,000m3 next-generation LPG tankers is nearing completion in China for Hartmann Reederei – the second German owner to expand its fleet of gas tankers in recent months, writes Tom Todd.
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NewsSmaller German yard work points up economic clout
Some of Germany’s smaller repair facilities have reported interesting and varied activity of late, demonstrating again how important they remain for the sector in general and for local economies in particular. Tom Todd reports.
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NewsCBM systems are getting smaller and smarter
Bandwidth is becoming irrelevant despite the huge amount of data being made available to condition based monitoring systems, writes Wendy Laursen.
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NewsImportant diagnostic calls lost on desensitised crew
Wendy Laursen explains how analysis of fault calls reveals how crew become desensitised to equipment alarms and how electrical equipment in particular is emerging as a problem.
