All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 363

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

    "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
    News

    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)
    News

    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)
    News

    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
    News

    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
    News

    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).
    News

    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
    News

    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
    News

    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.

  • News

    WinGD innovates in X-DF lubrication system

    2019-02-25T08:00:00Z

    WinGD is introducing a new system that allows the automatic change-over of cylinder lubrication oil between two types of oils, normally between low and high BN oils within its X-DF dual-fuel engines, minimizing delay times in change-overs. The proprietary dual-line system is patent pending.

  • “We see more and more requests for digital connectivity, data processing... and there’s more to come.”  Wolfgang Östreicher, WinGD.  Image:  Scankab Cables
    News

    Great expectations… or more tangles than spaghetti?

    2019-02-25T08:00:00Z

    There’s a rising demand… but Stevie Knight asks, how do we overcome the challenges of tying together existing technologies with data-centric innovation?

  • CROE has won a contract with a USA shipping firm to retrofit 35 scrubber systems Photo: CROE
    News

    CROE wins USA scrubber contract

    2019-02-22T10:32:00Z

    Scrubber manufacturer, CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) has been awarded a contract with a USA-based shipping company for the fitting of 35 exhaust gas scrubber cleaning systems.

  • GTT confirmed as silver sponsors
    Conference

    GTT confirm silver sponsorship

    2019-02-22T10:21:00Z

    GTT (Gaztransport & Technigaz) have joined Propulsion & Future Fuels as silver sponsors of the 2019 event to be held in Hamburg, Germany from 19-21 November.

  • Mike Kaczmarek, Carnival’s Senior Vice President for Marine Technology
    News

    Japan’s MLIT and Carnival present scrubber findings at CSA 2020 conference

    2019-02-21T22:28:00Z

    The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 held its first technical conference in London on 21 February at which both Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and a Carnival-led, CSA 2020-backed project presented the results of detailed studies into the composition and quality of exhaust gas cleaning system (scrubber) ...

  • The first steel has been cut for Nexans' cable laying vessel 'Aurora' Photo: Nexan
    News

    Major milestone passed for Nexans’ Aurora

    2019-02-21T11:20:00Z

    French fibre optic company, Nexans, has passed a major milestone with the cutting of the first steel for its new DP3 cable laying vessel.

  • Schottel has launched a new shallow water thruster Photo: Schottel
    News

    Schottel launches new shallow water thruster

    2019-02-21T11:12:00Z

    German manufacturer of marine propulsion systems, Schottel, is presenting its new pump jet type SPJ 30, a shallow water thruster suitable for a wide range of vessel types such as passenger vessels, ferries, work vessels and freighters.

  • Fednav's Federal Bering is an example of Oshima-built bulker optimised for international trade via the St Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes system
    News

    A shipping company for all seasons: Fednav

    2019-02-21T11:11:00Z

    Fednav is Canada’s largest ocean-going dry bulk shipowning and chartering group. As a ship owner and operator of 75 years standing, Fednav has weathered many previous market and regulatory changes.

  • Consortium participant Wärtsilä converted four engines on  the Stena Germanica to run on ethanol-MGO fuel in 2015-16
    News

    Major maritime companies join Green Maritime Methanol project

    2019-02-21T11:01:00Z

    A consortium of leading international maritime companies, supported by Maritime Knowledge Centre, have launched a two-year study in the Netherlands into the feasibility of methanol as a sustainable alternative transport fuel in the maritime sector.

  • Port of Rotterdam
    News

    Gas4Sea partners and Equinor bunkering deal

    2019-02-20T16:02:00Z

    Marine LNG Zeebrugge has signed a deal to supply LNG to Norwegian energy group Equinor’s four crude shuttle tankers in the Port of Rotterdam.