All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 359

  • Scheduled RoRo or RoPax services can achieve annualised fuel efficiency savings of up to 2 percent, based on Rayner’s own experience with French ferry operator, La Meridionale
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    Digitalising the fleet of tomorrow

    2019-03-01T15:37:00Z

    While performance optimisation is as old as the sea, or seafaring itself, the introduction of quantitative assessment models early this century has transformed the market. Eniram, a Wärtsilä company, was an early entrant into the market in 2005 and has been a data-led business since the start, Andrew Rayner, sales ...

  • Press Releases

    Case Study - Special Formwork

    2019-03-01T15:22:00Z By Vickers Oil

    Special Formwork, a UK based company specializing in the design and manufacture of steel formwork for the casting of concrete, have partnered with Vickers Oils for their latest innovation in sea-wall construction.

  • Press Releases

    Case Study_ ISHIMA International Ship Management

    2019-03-01T15:16:00Z By Vickers Oil

    When ISHIMA International Ship Management contacted Vickers Oils with an urgent enquiry, Vickers Oils had the agility to deliver product to the vessel within 5 hours!

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    Press Releases

    Peters Chicago Presentation 19/09/2018

    2019-03-01T15:12:00Z By Vickers Oil

    On September 19 2018, Peter Vickers was invited to speak at the 3rd North American Industrial Lubricants Congress in Chicago USA.

  • Wärtsilä will provide maintenance services for Saudi Arabian tug operator, Marine Services Company Photo: Wärtsilä
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    Wärtsilä in MSCL maintenance deal

    2019-03-01T14:08:00Z

    Global technology group, Wärtsilä, has signed an optimised maintenance agreement with Marine Service Company Ltd (MSCL), a Saudi Arabian tug operator.

  • SEA\LNG is promoting the use of LNG as a marine fuel Photo: SEA\LNG
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    SEA\LNG commissions LNG study

    2019-03-01T13:59:00Z

    SEA\LNG, a coalition aiming to accelerate the adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel, believes LNG is a viable pathway to meet the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s 2050 greenhouse gas (GHG) targets.

  • Ulstein's latest in the X-JACK series is the J102 Photo: Ulstein Group
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    Ulstein unveils latest in X-JACK series

    2019-02-28T11:56:00Z

    Norway-based Ulstein Group has unveiled a new heavy lift jack-up design developed to meet the offshore wind industry''s need for cost-efficient wind turbine installation vessels.

  • Rolls-Royce has won a contract to install its Energy Management System on nine vessels in Havila Shipping's fleet Photo: Rolls-Royce
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    Rolls-Royce wins Havila EMS contract

    2019-02-28T11:47:00Z

    Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine has won a contract to install its next generation Energy Management System (EMS) across nine vessels in the Norwegian Havila Shipping fleet.

  • Flagstad-Andersen cited cooperation between private and public organisations as a key driver of innovation in Norway (credit: DNV GL)
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    Flagstad-Andersen appointed as DNV GL North Europe manager

    2019-02-28T09:26:00Z

    DNV GL-Maritime has appointed Tuva Flagstad-Andersen as the new regional manager for North Europe from 1 January 2019.

  • International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Deputy Secretary General Simon Bennett
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    ICS welcomes IMO FONAR decision

    2019-02-28T07:06:00Z

    The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has welcomed the International Maritime Organization''s decision in principle that safety or operational concerns about the quality of low sulphur fuels may, in exceptional circumstances, be a valid reason for shipowners to be issued with a Fuel Oil Non Availability Report (FONAR) from 1 ...

  • "K" Line has launched a new bulk carrier Photo: "K" Line
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    "K" Line launches new bulk carrier

    2019-02-27T12:31:00Z

    Japanese transportation company, "K" Line, has launched a new 200,000dwt bulk carrier.

  • Wärtsilä will provide maintenance solutions to LNG carriers owned by Tokyo LNG Tanker Photo: Tokyo LNG Tanker
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    Wärtsilä to maintain Japanese LNG carriers

    2019-02-27T12:25:00Z

    The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a long-term contract to supply Japanese shipowner, Tokyo LNG Tanker, with its optimised maintenance lifecycle solution.

  • News

    US COMMERCIAL NEWBUILD ACTIVITY WANES

    2019-02-27T08:00:00Z

    Despite showing their mettle in tanker and boxship construction for a protracted period, US mercantile vessel builders are now facing testing times, writes David Tinsley.

  • Rolf Stiefel of WinGD thinks the industry needs to come together to present shipowners with one short-term solution - LNG (credit: WinGD)
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    WinGD sees LNG as future for industry

    2019-02-26T22:15:00Z

    Winterthur-based engine designer WinGD sees LNG based fuels as the future for the marine propulsion market, Rolf Stiefel, vice president of sales & marketing, told the Motorship during a recent visit to Winterthur.

  • Klaus Heim, WinGD CEO and president of CIMAC (credit: WinGD)
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    WinGD to ramp up R&D efforts

    2019-02-26T18:03:00Z

    Klaus Heim, ceo of WinGD and president of CIMAC, was clear that the diesel engine has a future to play, during a recent interview in Winterthur.

  • IMO Sub-Committee
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    Guidelines for sulphur limit implementation

    2019-02-26T16:27:00Z

    The IMO’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response has agreed draft guidelines for consistent implementation of the 0.50% sulphur limit under MARPOL Annex VI.

  • Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) is a customised Ulstein design  able to carry huge monopiles to site... and it’s a hybrid.  Image:  Ulstein Design & Solutions BV
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    Enter the big, workhorse hybrids

    2019-02-26T08:00:00Z

    Any doubts that times have changed should be resolved by a look at the big commercial hybrids currently shaping up, writes Stevie Knight. And no, for once we are not talking about cruise ships.

  • GTT’s latest version of its Mark III membrane tank technology, the Mark III Flex+ system, has quickly attracted a raft of orders (image courtesy of GTT).
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    LNG CARRIER CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS

    2019-02-25T23:01:00Z

    Unstinting R&D endeavours by membrane tank technology specialist GTT have brought down LNG cargo evaporation rates.

  • Bilfinger has won contracts worth more than €100m to retrofit scrubbers on 70 vessels Photo: Bilfinger
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    Bilfinger in €100m scrubber deals

    2019-02-25T13:26:00Z

    German industrial services provider, Bilfinger, has won contracts worth more than €100m to fit its scrubber technology on 70 vessels.

  • Scandlines' hybrid ferries in the Fehmarn Belt are to be fitted with new thrusters Photo: Scandlines
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    New thrusters help Scandlines to be green

    2019-02-25T13:20:00Z

    New thrusters have been installed on Scandlines’ hybrid ferries to help reduce underwater noise and air emissions whilst travelling in the Fehmarn Belt, the strait linking Denmark to Germany.