All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 749

  • News

    Vinashin hands over yard to PetroVietnam

    2010-07-13T15:22:00Z

    Financially troubled Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) has been forced to hand over its Dung Quat shipyard to PetroVietnam where it is building Aframax tankers for the state oil and gas firm.

  • Castrol's e-book, intended as an interactive guide to lubricants
    News

    Interactive lubricant e-books launched online

    2010-07-13T15:02:00Z

    Castrol Marine has launched a range of online resource tools aimed at the marine industry. The Castrol e-books allow users to download detailed information of the product range and technical data.

  • Russell Dinwoodie
    News

    Wilhelmsen appoints new general manager in Kuwait

    2010-07-13T12:51:00Z

    Wilhelmsen Ships Service has appointed Russell Dinwoodie as General Manager for the company’s operations in Kuwait.

  • 42m landing craft
    News

    Abu Dhabi Ship Building delivers 42m landing craft to Bahrain Navy

    2010-07-13T12:25:00Z

    Abu Dhabi Ship Building has delivered the first of two 42m landing craft being built for the Royal Bahrain Naval Force at ADSB’s Mussafah yard.

  • The Wartsila 20 engine
    News

    Chinese oil company orders engines for 40 bunker ships

    2010-07-13T10:21:00Z

    Wärtsilä is to supply 80 medium speed main engines of 20cm bore for 40 new bunkering tankers being built for the Brightoil Petroleum Group (BPG), China. The ships will operate in both Chinese and international waters.

  • Hamworthy twin process tank system being installed on a cruise ship at Meyer Werft shipyard
    News

    Hamworthy Water Systems delivers largest MBR

    2010-07-13T10:14:00Z

    Hamworthy Water Systems has delivered its largest ever membrane bioreactor (MBR) wastewater treatment plant for installation on board a cruise ship.

  • The Seymour Engine Plant
    News

    Cummins to expand engine production line

    2010-07-12T13:50:00Z

    US engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. will be expanding its high-horsepower technical center and engine product line at its manufacturing facility in Seymour, Indiana.

  • News

    Saudi shipyard plans to expand

    2010-07-12T13:43:00Z

    Saudi Arabian Zamil Offshore Services Company will invest SAR40 billion ($10.7 billion) over the next 10 years into shipbuilding.

  • Axel Maersk, one of the 34 ships to receive a Wärtsilä slow steaming kit
    News

    Major shipowner orders 34 slow steaming kits

    2010-07-12T09:49:00Z

    Wärtsilä reports the signing of a major contract with the AP Moeller-Maersk group covering the installation of Wärtsilä slow steaming upgrade kits to 34 more of the company''s large container vessels.

  • News

    Bunker supplier geared up for low-sulphur demands

    2010-07-09T16:07:00Z

    Marine fuel supplier Chemoil says that it is well prepared to meet demand for lower sulphur oxide bunker fuel to vessels in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam in anticipation of the North Sea and Baltic Sea ECA regulations.

  • IRS chairman Julian Padilla
    News

    IRS surveyors target smaller flags

    2010-07-09T15:30:00Z

    As shipping rules and regulations tighten, an independent class society believes that it has found a neat way to solve the problems of smaller flag states whose vessels are often targeted and detained by port state authorities.

  • A Berg Propulsion CP propeller
    News

    Initial propulsion order in Brazil

    2010-07-09T11:08:00Z

    Berg Propulsion reports that it has secured its first order in Brazil, within six months of opening a dedicated sales office in Rio de Janeiro.

  • News

    Ready for sulphur limitation

    2010-07-08T14:51:00Z

    Marine bunker supplier Chemoil says that it is well prepared to meet demand for lower sulphur bunker fuel for vessels in the Ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam in anticipation of the new ECA regulations.

  • News

    UKHO and JRC in ECDIS partnership

    2010-07-07T16:15:00Z

    The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and Japan Radio Company (JRC) have announced that shipping companies fitting a JRC ECDIS now have the additional benefit of instant access to the entire range of official global Admiralty ENCs.

  • Artist impression of the VS 489 LNG PSV design ordered by Eidesvik Offshore
    News

    Kleven books PSV contracts

    2010-07-07T15:49:00Z

    Norway''s Kleven Maritime has won platform supply vessel contracts from Eidesvik Offshore and from Meling Supply AS.

  • Dr Hermann J. Klein, IACS chairman (right), is obviously very happy to welcome IRS and its chairman, Captain J.C. Anand, to IACS.
    News

    Indian Register joins IACS

    2010-07-07T15:44:00Z

    IACS (the International Association of Classification Societies) has welcomed the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) as its first new member since the introduction of new membership criteria in October 2009.

  • News

    Cargotec receives order for electric-driven cranes

    2010-07-07T15:44:00Z

    Cargotec has signed a contract to deliver six ship-sets of environmentally-friendly variable frequency drive (VFD) MacGregor cargo cranes to Grieg Shipping''s new 48,700 dwt open-hatch general cargo ship series.

  • News

    Korea orders VLCCs from China

    2010-07-07T15:41:00Z

    Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation has won a contract to build two VLCCs for Korean SK Shipping.

  • News

    Castrol’s football sponsorship theme continues at Posidonia

    2010-07-07T12:50:00Z

    The 2010 FIFA Word Cup may have been something the French wanted to forget – even more so than the English team – but three days before the kick off in South Africa, visitors to the Castrol Marine stand at Posidonia in Athens were treated to a personal appearance ...

  • News

    Idle fleet falls despite record new ship deliveries

    2010-07-06T18:00:00Z

    According to Alphaliner, the idle containership fleet fell further in the last two weeks as strong demand continues to absorb available capacity in the market.