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    Energy efficiency: totally worth it

    2019-09-24T13:34:00Z By DESMI Pumping Technology A/S

    Energy efficiency: totally worth it

  • CMB’s 14m long catamaran Hydroville
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    Putting Antwerp at the heart of the hydrogen economy

    2019-09-23T17:39:00Z

    Leading Belgian shipowner Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) has nailed its colours to the mast on marine hydrogen engine development, as CMB’s R&D Manager Roy Campe explains.

  • The Getting to Zero Coalition was launched in New York on Monday 23 September to coincide with the UN Climate Action Summit at the United Nations' headquarters, pictured. (Credit: UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata)
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    MAN ES among Getting to Zero coalition members

    2019-09-23T17:24:00Z

    Engine designer MAN Energy Solutions has joined a new climate grouping, dedicated to developing zero-emission vessels by 2030. The Getting to Zero Coalition is a partnership between the Global Maritime Forum, the Friends of Ocean Action, and the World Economic Forum.

  • Babcock LGE's ecoETHN solution allows methane content up to 2.0 mol% in the liquid phase to be transported. (Credit: Babcock LGE)
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    Babcock receives LR AiP for ecoETHN solution

    2019-09-23T15:22:00Z

    Classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to Babcock for its ecoETHN® solution at Gastech 2019 in Houston, Texas on Wednesday 18 September.

  • Benoit Gillmann, BIO-UV Group’s chairman and CEO Photo: BIO-UV Group
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    BIO-UV Group acquires Triogen Holdings

    2019-09-23T13:08:00Z

    BIO-UV Group has acquired a 100% stake in Scotland-based Triogen Holdings and its subsidiary Suez Purification and Disinfection Systems from Suez Water Technologies & Solutions.

  • Odin Kwon, CTO of DSME (l), receives the AiP certificates from Johan Petter Tutturen, DNV GL – Maritime business director gas carriers Photo: DNV GL
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    DNV GL gives Daewoo AiP for ethylene tanks

    2019-09-23T12:54:00Z

    DNV GL has presented South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) with Approval in Principle (AiP) certificates for two new 98,000 cubic metre ethylene carrier cargo tank designs.

  • Wärtsilä will supply its LNG cargo handling system for a new LNG bunker barge being built in the USA Photo: VARD Marine
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    Wärtsilä supplies cargo handling to LNG barge

    2019-09-20T09:26:00Z

    Technology group Wärtsilä will supply its LNG cargo handling system for a new LNG bunker barge being built in the USA.

  • SHI receives AiP from Bureau Veritas at Gastech 2019 Photo: Bureau Veritas
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    SHI given AiP from BV for smartship solution

    2019-09-20T08:15:00Z

    Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has received approval in principle (AiP) from Bureau Veritas for the development of its SVESSEL smartship solution.

  • Hyung Kwan Kim, executive vice president, HHI (l) and Johan Petter Tutturen, DNV GL business director gas carriers Photo: DNV GL
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    HHI given AiP from DNV GL for LPG carrier

    2019-09-20T07:58:00Z

    Classification society DNV GL – Maritime has awarded Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) with approval in principle (AIP) for the design of a very large liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier.

  • The Wärtsilä 31SG pure gas engine, ratified as the world's most efficient 4-stroke diesel engine Photo: Wärtsilä
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    World's most efficient 4-stroke gas engine

    2019-09-19T14:13:00Z

    The technology group Wärtsilä has launched the Wärtsilä 31SG pure gas engine for marine market applications at the Gastech 2019 conference in Houston, Texas.

  • ABS, HHI and HGS will work together on digitalisation and decarbonisation concepts Photo: ABB
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    ABS and HHI Group join forces on D&D

    2019-09-19T13:57:00Z

    ABS, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Hyundai Global Service (HGS) have agreed a framework for the exchange of digitalisation and decarbonisation (D&D) concepts to apply to present and future designs.

  • LR awards Jiangnan AiP for the design of its new VLGC Photo: Lloyd's Register
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    LR awards Jiangnan AiP for new VLGC

    2019-09-19T13:34:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded Jiangnan Shipyard Group Company with approval in principle (AiP) for its new 91,000m3 very large gas carrier (VLGC).

  • American Ethane announced plans to order 17 VLECs at Gastech on 17 September.
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    American Ethane reveals plans to order 17 VLECs

    2019-09-18T05:55:00Z

    Houston-based American Ethane announced plans to order 17 very large ethane carriers at Gastech in Houston on 17 September. The 150,000 cbm capacity VLECs will be ordered from Chinese shipyards Hudong-Zhonghua and Jiangnan, both of which received approval in principle for VLEC designs earlier in 2019.

  • High sided ships like autocarriers can have their efficiency impacted by higher wind speeds. Photo: Garitzko
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    More than batteries?

    2019-09-18T05:26:00Z

    Energy storage used to be mostly the preserve of smaller vessels, most of the industry assuming it had little part in making large, constant-speed shipping more effective. However, this is set to change.

  • The new architecture for Wärtsilä’s UNIC control system was first deployed on its Wärtsilä 31 engine (pictured).
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    New engine controls face down future challenges

    2019-09-18T04:09:00Z

    Improved upgradability, connectivity and cybersecurity define a new generation of control systems expected to drive better efficiency and environmental performance in modern engines.

  • Mediterranean Shipping Company's (MSC) 399.9m-long, 23,756 TEU MSC Gulsun is the largest container vessel in service. (Picture credit: MSC)
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    A second wind for air lubrication systems

    2019-09-18T03:52:00Z

    MSC’s new 23,700 TEU MSC Gülsün is the latest vessel to be built ready to be fitted with an air lubrication system, amid a resurgence in interest in the technology, writes Nick Savvides.

  • Wholly Finnish owned again, the Rauma yard is harnessing its resources to full effect. (Photo credit: RMC).
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    RE-ENERGISED RAUMA YARD BUILDS BUSINESS

    2019-09-18T03:47:00Z

    Finland is the setting for an unusual European case of the revival of shipbuilding in one of the industry’s traditional centres, writes David Tinsley.

  • Kongsdal has entered the shortsea cement traffic. (Photo courtesy of Royal Bodewes).
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    NEW ENTRANT TO CEMENT HANDLING TRADE

    2019-09-18T03:38:00Z

    Dutch shipbuilding has strengthened its hand in dedicated cement carrier design and construction through the delivery last month of the 4,200dwt self-discharger Kongsdal to Cyprus-based SMT Shipping, writes David Tinsley.

  • News

    Corvus energy system for LNG ferries

    2019-09-17T15:57:00Z

    Seaspan Ferries has selected Corvus Energy to supply a 2034 kWh Orca Energy system for each of its newbuild LNG-battery hybrid ferries currently under construction.

  • IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim speaking at London International Shipping Week Photo: IMO
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    IMO GHG targets drive propulsion revolution

    2019-09-16T16:37:00Z

    The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) emissions reduction targets are driving a propulsion revolution as ship owners and operators seek to find alternatives to fossil fuels.