Latest News – Page 671
-
News
FleetBroadband from Stratos on Vega ships
Communications provider Stratos Global has been contracted to deploy Inmarsat FleetBroadband services on up to 16 commercial vessels for Hamburg-based Vega-Reederei.
-
News
Korea targets green ships market
South Korea will spend 300 billion won ($266.1 million) over the next 10 years to develop technology for low carbon ‘green’ ships in a bid to reclaim its status as the world’s leading shipbuilding country from China.
-
News
Japanese shipyards recovering
Ship orders for Japanese yards have more than tripled in January year on year and with gains of 218.5% averaged over 14 consecutive months to 1.5 million gross tons according to the Japan Ship Exporters Association.
-
News
BMT to design Canadian JSS
BMT Fleet Technology of Ottawa, Ontario is to start work on a design for the Canadian Forces’ (CF) new joint support ship (JSS).
-
NewsDNV classes T-0 heavy transport vessel
DNV has secured a contract to class the world’s largest semi-submersible heavy transportation vessel (SSHTV) of Dockwise in Netherlands from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in South Korea.
-
NewsPlanned maintenance for bunker barge
UK-based company Marine Software has supplied its type approved MPM - Marine Planned Maintenance system to John H Whitaker Tankers, to be installed onboard the bunker barge ''Whithaven''.
-
News
Services support for largest Australian oil and gas project
Wilhelmsen Ships Service says that it is providing a range of support services to the Gorgon project, Australia’s largest ever oil and gas project. Services include importation of dredgers and project cargo shipments.
-
News
Maritime broadband portfolio extended with launch of VSAT service
Vizada, the independent French satellite communications provider, has launched Pharostar, its proprietary VSAT (very small aperture terminal) fixed satellite communications service and the latest addition to its maritime broadband portfolio.
-
News
P&I Club warns on fire preparedness
The London P&I Club says the response to two recent onboard cargo fires has highlighted the value of both fire-fighting training and realistic shipboard drills for ships’ crews.
-
NewsRolls-Royce wins anchor handling order
Rolls-Royce Marine has been awarded a contract by STX OSV Trading to supply anchor handling systems for three new vessels for South America.
-
NewsADSB signs MoU for superyacht work
Abu Dhabi Ship Building has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Egypt-based DeBirs Yachts, under which ADSB and DeBirs will explore various areas of collaboration.
-
NewsIncat Crowther crewboat launched
The 36m monohull crewboat ‘Siem Piata’ was recently launched by ETP Engenharia Ltda in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-
News
ClassNK and Panama celebrate milestone
ClassNK recently announced that at the end of 2010, the combined tonnage of Panamanian flagged vessels on the class society’s register had broken the 100 million gross ton barrier.
-
NewsTwin PSVs named
The twin platform supply vessels (PSV) ‘Rem Hrist’ and ‘Rem Mist’ have recently been named at a joint ceremony held at the Ulstein shipyard in Ulsteinvik on the west coast of Norway.
-
NewsSingapore built semisub rig named
Queiroz Galvao Oleo e Gas (QGOG), the largest privately-held provider of drilling and production services in Brazil, recently named its newly-built, ultra-deepwater DP semisubmersible rig ‘Alpha Star’.
-
NewsLNG fuel best for USA, says DNV
A new report from DNV, ‘Greener shipping in North America’, proposes that LNG is the most efficient and economical way to meet forthcoming air emissions requirements in the US and Canada.
-
News
Sinopacific embraces ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’
China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, which includes the Zhejiang Shipbuilding and Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding yards, says that it values business ethics such as lawful operation, product safety, environmental protection, employee benefits, integrity and responsibility to stakeholders.
-
NewsEnhanced broadband gets first customer
Maritime satellite communications provider Stratos Global has just launched its FBBPlus managed global broadband service, based on the FleetBroadband and VSAT platforms.
-
News
RINA endorses technical training tool
Castrol Academy, Castrol Marine’s technical training and assessment tool, has been recognised by the Royal Institution Of Naval Architects (RINA).
-
NewsTwo more Rickmers container giants named
17 February saw the naming of two more 13,100 TEU container vessels for Rickmers Group. ‘Leo Rickmers’ and ‘Scorpio Rickmers’ will be chartered to Maersk Line as ‘Maersk Edmonton’ and ‘Maersk Elba’.
