All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 685

  • ‘Stena Provence’ in drydock at Harland & Wolff in Belfast
    News

    H&W kicks off 2011 with bulging order book

    2011-06-11T23:00:00Z

    Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries’ ship repair and conversion order book saw eight vessel dockings between December 2010 and early March 2011.

  • The refurbished ‘Thomson Celebration’ leaving Gibdock drydock
    News

    Fickle future for shiprepair industry says Gibdock CEO

    2011-06-10T23:15:00Z

    Commenting on the shiprepair market as a whole, Joe Corvelli, CEO of Gibdock in Gibraltar, states that it has been fickle over the last year and the situation will remain the same for the foreseeable future.

  • Solstad PSV ‘Normand Vester’, about to undergo modification at Gibdock to meet Brazilian requirements
    News

    More conversion work at Gibdock

    2011-06-10T18:42:00Z

    Norway’s Solstad Offshore has returned to Gibdock for the conversion and drydocking of the 84m long, 4,500dwt PSV ‘Normand Vester’.

  • News

    RINA publishes gas fuel notation

    2011-06-10T17:31:00Z

    Italian classification society RINA has published a new notation for Gas Fuelled Ships which establishes requirements for the use of liquefied or compressed natural gas (LNG or CNG) as an alternative to traditional fuels.

  • TCS-PTG components
    News

    Increasing efficiency of large engines

    2011-06-10T17:30:00Z

    MAN Diesel & Turbo recently presented its new efficiency technologies for large two-stroke engines, the WHR (waste heat recovery) systems, that include the TCS-PTG turbines, and are offered as an integrated system.

  • Engine room of ‘Polar King’
    News

    MAN power for new OSV

    2011-06-10T16:50:00Z

    GC Rieber Shipping of Bergen, Norway recently took delivery of a new offshore ROV survey vessel – the ‘Polar King’ – constructed by CNP Freire shipyard in Spain.

  • News

    Additional Polish service centre for Rolls-Royce

    2011-06-10T16:11:00Z

    Rolls-Royce has opened a new marine service centre, in the Port of Gdynia, Poland. It says this marks the latest stage in the development of the group’s global marine service centre network, which aims to offer 24-hour per day service to customers in 35 countries.

  • The LNG carrier ‘Khannar’ arriving at Jurong Shipyard for conversion into a FRSU
    News

    Jurong to convert LNG carrier into FSRU

    2011-06-09T13:53:00Z

    Jurong Shipyard in Singapore has secured a contract worth about $16 million from Golar LNG Energy to convert the LNG Khannur to a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) to be renamed West Java FSRU.

  • ‘Pacific Supplier’ the latest Swire Pacific Offshore AHTS to be supplied with six Solasafe sunscreens
    News

    Further sunscreen order for AHTS fleet

    2011-06-09T08:53:00Z

    Solar Solve Marine, the UK manufacturer of anti-glare, heat rejecting roller screens for bridge windows, says it has received its 12th order from Swire Pacific Offshore for its fleet of AHTS vessels.

  • Eirik Andreassen
    News

    DNVPS changes managing director

    2011-06-09T08:38:00Z

    DNV Petroleum Services (DNVPS) has announced that Eirik Andreassen has taken over the position of managing director from Tore Morten Wetterhus, who is returning to DNV HQ in Oslo, Norway, as director of technology and services

  • News

    New president elected at BIMCO

    2011-06-09T08:38:00Z

    At the BIMCO General Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, members elected Yudhishthir Khatau as the international shipping organisation’s 41st president.

  • News

    Sustainability to the fore at BIMCO general meeting

    2011-06-09T08:37:00Z

    People, energy, the environment and the ability of maritime technology to reinvent itself alongside a new paradigm formed the basis of BIMCO’s general meeting sustainability session in Vancouver, Canada, held 6-8 June.

  • The newly converted ‘FPSO PSVM’ leaving Jurong shipyard
    News

    Jurong delivers its largest FPSO conversion

    2011-06-08T23:00:00Z

    FPSO PSVM, one of the world’s largest floating production storage and offloading vessels successfully converted by Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard for contractor MODEC, was recently delivered to BP Exploration (Angola) Limited and Block 31 partners.

  • News

    Teekay signs shiprepair contract with Sembawang

    2011-06-08T23:00:00Z

    Singapore-based Sembawang Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has signed a long-term alliance contract with Teekay Marine Services, Canada, to provide ship-repair, refurbishment, upgrading and related marine services for its fleet of 137 ships.

  • Kelvin Hughes MantaDigital ECDIS
    News

    Companies join forces on ECDIS training

    2011-06-08T17:21:00Z

    Navigation specialist Kelvin Hughes says that an agreement has been signed with training provider Seagull to develop a product-specific computer-based training module for its MantaDigital ECDIS range.

  • News

    Singapore safety signs users express quality concerns

    2011-06-08T17:19:00Z

    Marine safety signage specialist Maritime Progress of the UK says its has recently attracted considerable interest in its products and technical developments in Singapore and the Far East.

  • The new Vibrotip EX
    News

    Vibration measurement for hazardous environments

    2011-06-08T13:06:00Z

    German company DB Prüftechnik says that its Vibrotip data collector for machine vibration, rolling element bearing condition and pump cavitation measurement, is now available certified to new ATEX guidelines.

  • News

    Five tankers ordered from Hyundai

    2011-06-08T13:05:00Z

    Scorpio Tankers has announced that it has signed contracts with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard of South Korea to construct five 52,000dwt product tankers at a price of about $37.4 million each.

  • Hatenboer-Water’s ballast treatment system
    News

    Dutch Navy orders ballast water system

    2011-06-08T13:04:00Z

    Hatenboer-Water of The Netherlands says that it has received an order for its GloEn-Patrol ballast water treatment system from Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding for a new Dutch Royal Navy Joint Support Ship (JSS).

  • News

    Indian Registry appointed as Recognised Organisation by Liberia

    2011-06-07T16:37:00Z

    The Liberian Registry has accorded the status of Recognised Organisation (RO) to the classification society IRS (Indian Register of Shipping), to act on behalf of vessels operating under the flag of Liberia.