Month: October 2001

The MAN Group has announced it is to restructure the department producing four-stroke engines in its Diesel Engine division. In the Group?s interim results, covering the first six months of 2001, it…

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania claim to have developed a prototype fuel cell that is powered by diesel. The breakthrough would solve the problem of reforming a commonly available hydrocarbon fuel…

Will doubling up prevail on future tanker designs? The situation already exists where new tankers require a double hull in order to improve their safety margins. But the majority of tankers still…

Bureau Veritas has launched an extension to its Veristar system allowing clients to track classification of their newbuilding projects in real time using the Internet. Brittany Ferries is using a pilot version…

Technology is leaping across the divide between MAN B&W Diesel?s various operating subsidiaries. The most recent example is the SEMT Pielstick developed PC2.6B, which MAN B&W is now selling as its own-branded…

Viking Line, whose ferry Mariella now has a Munters/SEMT Pielstick humid air motor on each of its four main engines, has expressed interest in humid air motors for another of its ferries…

Bureau Veritas is drawing on past experience to offer a shaft alignment service to large-vessel owners. The service comes outside the normal scope of class. It has already been utilised on newbuildings…

Removing class from a vessel is the final weapon in a class society?s armoury against a substandard owner. Once it is decided a vessel could contravene a society?s conditions of class and…

Tanker owner Frontline has joined with fellow Norwegian-company Venturie to develop a low-tech oil vapour recovery system. The system has recently undergone trials on Frontline?s suezmax tanker Front Granite. The companies say…

MAN B&W has seen the first installation of a selective catalytic NOx reduction system on one of its 6S35MC diesels. The ship has now passed its test trials and begun reduced-emission operations.…