Month: June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

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…

10th June 2011

RINA publishes gas fuel notation

10th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

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.

10th June 2011

Increasing efficiency of large engines

10th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

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.

10th June 2011

MAN power for new OSV

10th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

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,…

10th June 2011

Additional Polish service centre for Rolls-Royce

10th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

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…

9th June 2011

Jurong to convert LNG carrier into FSRU

9th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

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.

9th June 2011

Further sunscreen order for AHTS fleet

9th June 2011

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

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…

9th June 2011

DNVPS changes managing director

9th June 2011

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

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

9th June 2011

New president elected at BIMCO

9th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

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.

9th June 2011

Sustainability to the fore at BIMCO general meeting

9th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

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…

9th June 2011

Teekay signs shiprepair contract with Sembawang

9th June 2011