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  • P&E Operator Panel
    Conference

    P&E - Operator panels to give feedback on compliance solutions

    2017-03-31T10:32:00Z

    With two operator panel discussions and a further four discussion sessions involving operators and suppliers, delegates will have the opportunity to ask questions and join in the discussion throughout the two days of the conference.

  • New - Chairmen Picture
    Conference

    P&E - Conference Chairmen bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to proceedings

    2017-03-31T10:25:00Z

    Lars Robert Pedersen, deputy secretary general, BIMCO and Martin Kroeger, managing director, VDR will co-chair 2017 Propulsion & Emissions Conference. Book your place now to join operators and stakeholders at the longest established conference for the global shipping industry.

  • Conference

    P&E - Networking begins at the Welcome Reception

    2017-03-31T10:08:00Z

    Hosted by Blohm+Voss at the exclusive Hafen Klub, providing views across the Elbe to the yard, delegates will have the opportunity to meet fellow participants and start the networking early at the Reception taking place on 9 May 2017. All participants are invited to attend – book your place ...

  • Conference

    P&E - DNV GL launches BWM plan generator

    2017-03-31T10:04:00Z

    With less than six months to go until the BWM Convention comes into force, DNV GL has launched a BWM plan generator app to help those owners and operators which still need to comply.

  • Retrofitting of scrubbers or other sulphur compliance options is a difficult decision for owners of older vessels
    News

    To scrap or not to scrap?

    2017-03-31T06:00:00Z

    Innovative technical and financial options are needed if owners of older ships are to avoid scrapping vessels in the light of onerous environmental regulations.

  • Houlder, Trelleborg and Wärtsilä have developed a low-cost LNG transfer solution for projects where shoreside investment may be constrained
    News

    Floating terminal to simplify LNG bunkering

    2017-03-30T06:32:00Z

    Houlder, Wärtsilä and Trelleborg have developed a floating transfer terminal (FTT) that will enable ship to-shore LNG bunkering without a jetty, reducing infrastructure investment for small to mid-scale projects.

  • ABB is to provide power, elextric propulsion and remote monitoring for an FSRU to be built for BW Group at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co
    News

    ABB power for BW Group FSRU

    2017-03-30T06:09:00Z

    ABB is to supply power and electric propulsion systems to a new 174,000m3 floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) for BW Group.

  • Sovcomflot has placed the world's first order for gas-fuelled aframax tankers, with four vessels to be built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries
    News

    SCF orders gas-fuelled aframax quartet

    2017-03-30T05:52:00Z

    Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries is to build four 114,000 dwt tankers - understood to be the first gas-fuelled aframax vessels ordered - for Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF).

  • The 20,170 teu 'MOL Triumph' has been designed with an eye to a potential conversion to LNG fuel, pending a feasibility study that will also consider a scrubber installation
    News

    World’s largest containership designed ‘LNG ready’

    2017-03-30T05:34:00Z

    The recently delivered ‘MOL Triumph’ – at 20,170 teu, the world’s largest containership – has been built with the potential for conversion to LNG fueled operations, owner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has reported.

  • The collaboration will lay the groundwork for the development of autonomous container ships
    News

    Rolls-Royce and MacGregor study containership autonomy

    2017-03-29T12:42:00Z

    Rolls-Royce and MacGregor, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on research to explore the impact of developments in autonomy for cargo ship navigation and cargo handling systems.

  • Nyhus: Skewed installation timeframe caused by IOPP decoupling "not feasible"
    News

    IOPP decoupling threatens BWM installation schedule

    2017-03-29T04:36:00Z

    Shipyards may struggle to meet the demand for ballast water management (BWM) system installations if owners seek to postpone compliance by performing early surveys, according to class society DNV GL and system supplier Optimarin.

  • The system is apparently the first in the world to generate electricity from the exhaust heat emitted by the ship’s turbocharger
    News

    Binary cycle power generation system for ships

    2017-03-28T16:23:00Z

    Kobe Steel Ltd plans to start marketing a new binary cycle power generation system for ships which is apparently the first in the world to generate electricity from the exhaust heat emitted by the ship’s turbocharger.

  • The IHC vessel developed for polymetallic nodule harvesting. Image: IHC Piet Hein
    News

    Digging deep: the new seafloor industry

    2017-03-27T20:18:00Z

    Minerals on and beneath the seabed may represent the next great bounty of the ocean, but retrieving them can be a daunting challenge. Stevie Knights examines two early deep-sea mining projects.

  • Hannu Jukola: “You can easily be a thousand miles from port or a week away from another vessel. If something happens, there’s no one to call, even helicopters will take days to reach you.”
    News

    Hannu Jukola: Cold realism

    2017-03-27T19:52:00Z

    “There are some very pretty pictures of cruise vessels surrounded by floating ice in the brochures, but these vessels have no ice class: to an expert eye it’s actually extremely dangerous,” Hannu Jukola of Steerprop tells Stevie Knight. The cruise industry has been taking some heavy risks without, it seems, ...

  • Conference

    GFS - Unique venue revealed - another first for GFS!

    2017-03-24T10:39:00Z

    The 8th Gas Fuelled Ships Conference will be held onboard the Viking Mariella which will give delegates the unique opportunity to view working fuel cells in situ. Leaving from Helsinki on 13 November, the Mariella will sail to Stockholm, returning to Helsinki on 15 November 2017. Book your place ...

  • Conference

    GFS - Gas Fuelled Ships onboard Fuel Cell powered Viking Mariella

    2017-03-24T10:34:00Z

    The 8th Gas Fuelled Ships Conference will be held onboard the Viking Mariella which will give delegates the unique opportunity to view working fuel cells in situ. Leaving from Helsinki on 13 November, the Mariella will sail to Stockholm, returning to Helsinki on 15 November 2017. Book your place ...

  • Illustration of a Maersk P-Class LR2 product tanker with two 30m x 5m Norsepower rotor sails
    Conference

    P&E - Maersk Tankers to host Flettner rotor trial

    2017-03-24T09:50:00Z

    Maersk Tankers is to conduct a test of wind propulsion technology using Flettner rotors supplied by Norsepower, under a project coordinated by Shell and majority funded by the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute.

  • P&E Panel
    Conference

    P&E - Propulsion & Emissions Conference: highlighting cost savings

    2017-03-24T09:40:00Z

    Book your place at the 2017 Conference to learn more about cost saving and performance enhancing solutions that will help ship owners and operators to meet environmental regulations when also facing economic pressures.

  • P&E Discussions
    Conference

    P&E - Hear from policy makers and industry leaders

    2017-03-24T09:37:00Z

    As well as giving practical solutions for cost savings and emissions reduction, delegates at the Propulsion & Emissions Conference will have the opportunity to hear from Stefan Micallef, Director MEPC, IMO and Ole Graa Jakobsen, vice president, head of fleet technology, Maersk Line who will give the keynote addresses. Book ...

  • P&E Sponsors
    Conference

    P&E - Looking to reach fleet directors, technical managers and managing directors of ship owners and operators?

    2017-03-24T09:34:00Z

    Join DNV GL. JP Sauer & Sohn, KRAL, Tecno Veritas, VAF Instruments and many more companies who will be exhibiting at the 2017 Propulsion & Emissions Conference.