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  • News

    More cruiseship orders for SAM Electronics

    2010-11-05T11:27:00Z

    Hamburg-based SAM Electronics, an L-3 company, has received orders to supply a further four NACOS 65-5 integrated navigation command systems for new cruise ships currently under construction in European yards for Carnival, Celebrity and Costa for delivery in 2011 and 2012.

  • A Teekay Aframax tanker ‘Australian Spirit’
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    Cargo heating management fuel savings

    2010-11-05T11:00:00Z

    Two years after Teekay entered into a contract with Blue Water to provide cargo heating management services onboard its vessels, its fleet has registered fuel savings in excess of 25% on an average from over 225 voyages.

  • News

    LR agrees changes to safety and environmental protection

    2010-11-05T10:57:00Z

    The shipbuilder, shipowner and shipping industry technical experts that comprise Lloyd’s Register’s technical committee recently concluded their two-day annual meeting and backed a change in the regulations to help the industry manage its environmental performance.

  • News

    DSME wins offshore platform

    2010-11-04T15:08:00Z

    Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), has recently won a $510 million order to build an offshore platform for Chevron Corp.

  • Eniram DTA in use on the bridge of ‘Norwegian Jewel’
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    Hapag–Lloyd to install dynamic trim technology

    2010-11-03T09:13:00Z

    Helsinki-based Eniram, provider of dynamic decision support systems, announced that Hapag-Lloyd AG will be deploying the first installation of the dynamic trimming assistant (DTA) on one of their container vessels.

  • ‘Allure of the Seas’ running her sea trials
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    STX delivers world’s largest cruiseship

    2010-11-03T08:57:00Z

    The world’s largest cruise ship, the ‘Allure of the Seas’, was delivered by STX’s Turku shipyard to the American shipowners Royal Caribbean International.

  • News

    GL launches new rules for OSVs

    2010-11-03T08:48:00Z

    Learning from operations and casualties is of great importance for state of the art rules and regulations, according to Rasmus Stute, GL’s head of department service vessels in a presentation at the Seatrade Middle East Maritime conference in Dubai.

  • Participants at the ceremony held in Beijing
    News

    MAN celebrates 30 years in China

    2010-11-03T08:47:00Z

    At a ceremony in Beijing, attended by licensees, company officials, business partners and local dignitaries, MAN Diesel & Turbo celebrated three decades of success in one of its most important markets.

  • News

    Wärtsilä and USC sign MoU

    2010-11-02T13:43:00Z

    Wärtsilä and United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), Russia’s leading shipbuilder, have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish joint set-ups in the areas of developing modern ship designs and manufacturing of propulsion systems.

  • News

    Focus on port state control compliance

    2010-11-02T13:42:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the UK P&I Club have produced a pocket guide to help ship operators and their crews remain in compliance with ISPS and ISM regulations between statutory surveys and verification audits.

  • LR carried out checks onboard Maersk Clementine to see whether its logs corresponded with the information in the reporting system
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    LR verifies Maersk’s carbon emissions data

    2010-11-02T13:40:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register (LR) has provided independent verification of Maersk Line’s carbon emissions in support of the container operator’s efforts to measure and manage its emissions.

  • ‘NYK Altair’ berthed in Hamburg during her maiden voyage to Europe
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    NYK introduces latest green boxship

    2010-11-02T13:38:00Z

    The latest newbuilding from NYK Line, ‘NYK Altair’ highlights the Japanese shipping company’s ongoing commitment to creating an environmentally friendly global transportation.

  • Emerson’s Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeter, installed as part of a fuel efficiency control system, is helping Rederi AB Transatlantic maximise fuel efficiency
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    Flowmeters help increase profitability

    2010-11-01T14:43:00Z

    Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters have helped Swedish shipowner Rederi AB Transatlantic maximise fuel efficiency and reduce fuel costs by two per cent per vessel, with an investment payback time of only two months.

  • News

    STX orders Hamworthy technology

    2010-11-01T11:44:00Z

    Hamworthy Serck Como has secured a new order for its multi stage flash (MSF) evaporators, the technology regularly specified by cruise ship owners as the means of producing fresh water from seawater to meet World Health Organization (WHO) potable water standards.

  • ‘Normand Pacific’ is the latest addition to the Solstad fleet
    News

    The greening of the Solstad fleet

    2010-11-01T00:15:00Z

    Although Solstad Offshore ASA in Skudeneshavn, on the island of Karmøy in Norway, can lay claim to having a modern and technically advanced fleet of energy efficient offshore support vessels, it has decided to go one step further with the objective of achieving carbon neutral operations.

  • The new Cunarder ‘Queen Elizabeth’
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    A new queen joins Cunard

    2010-11-01T00:15:00Z

    The recently delivered new Cunarder, ‘Queen Elizabeth’, is the third newbuilding to enter service with this Carnival Group subsidiary in the last six years and joins an impressive line-up of passenger ships comprising the transatlantic ocean liner ‘Queen Mary 2’ and the cruise ship ‘Queen Victoria’.

  • Bodensee ferry 'Meersburg' is running with low-emission MTU 2000 series engines
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    Engine builder looks to future emissions limits

    2010-10-31T23:45:00Z

    MTU is looking forward to the US, EU and IMO future limitations for NOx and particulate matter emissions, as described by Dag Pike.

  • Maersk Tankers is jointly developing CO2 ship designs with Hyundai and DNV
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    Maersk, HHI and DNV cooperate on CO2 ship designs

    2010-10-31T23:00:00Z

    Maersk Tankers, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) have agreed to collaborate on the design and risk assessment of tankers for shipping carbon dioxide gas.

  • Stena Hollandica, the world’s largest ropax ferry in terms of combined passenger and freight capacity
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    World's largest Superferry put into service

    2010-10-31T00:30:00Z

    The first of two large superferries, built by Nordic Yards in Wismar, Germany, was recently put into service with Stena Line on the North Sea run between Harwich and the Hook of Holland.

  • Rem Gambler running her sea trials
    News

    ‘Rem Gambler’ - a safe bet

    2010-10-31T00:30:00Z

    When the Fosnavåg-based offshore fleet operator Rem Maritime ordered its first AHTS vessel back in May 2007, the owner, Åge Remøy, took a gamble that the market would need the vessel and named it, appropriately, ''Rem Gambler''.