Month: October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Japanese operator ‘K’ Line (Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha) has announced the launch of an 82,000dwt bulk carrier, the ‘Zen-Noh Grain Magnolia’, at the Fukuyama Tsuneishi yard.

31st October 2011

New Kamsarmax bulk carrier launched for K Line

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

An order for supply of engines and propulsion equipment for six new ro-ro container vessels being built in Korea for NSCSA, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, has been placed with…

31st October 2011

Contract for boxship propulsion packages

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Irish Sea ro-ro freight operator Seatruck has launched and named the second in its series of four new vessels building at FSG Flensburg in Germany. The ship has been named ‘Seatruck Power’.

31st October 2011

Second Irish Sea ro-ro launched at FSG

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Cunard has announced that its flagship cruise vessel, the ‘Queen Mary 2’, is shortly to dock at the Blohm & Voss repair yard in Hamburg, Germany, for an extensive interior refit.

31st October 2011

QM2 to visit B+V for interior refit

31st October 2011

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy, recently delivered the largest cruise ship flying the Italian flag to Costa Cruises.

31st October 2011

Largest Italian cruise ship enters service

31st October 2011

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The Japanese shipowner Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) recently took delivery of a new 180,000dwt bulk carrier, Shin Koho, from the Universal Shipbuilding Corporation’s Tsu Shipyard.

31st October 2011

World’s first hybrid turbocharged bulk carrier

31st October 2011

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Norway’s geography and its distribution of communities and industry has ensured a continuing, important role for coastal and short-sea transportation, writes David Tinsley.

30th October 2011

Versatile, gas-fuelled design for northern waters

30th October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Friedrichshafen-based ZF Marine, in conjunction with Dutch company HRP (now ZF Marine Krimpen) has secured a contract with Aberdeen-based global shipping and energy firm, the Craig Group, to supply retractable azimuth thrusters…

30th October 2011

ZF on a roll with several large contracts

30th October 2011

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The Hobart, Tasmania, shipbuilder Richardson Devine Marine (RDM) recently delivered the 38m aluminium catamaran passenger ferry Kilimanjaro III to Coastal Fast Ferries in Tanzania.

30th October 2011

Tanzania gets new catamaran ferry

30th October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Environmental lobby groups are pressing the shipping industry, and its regulators, to move away from traditional oil-based lubricants which are causing significant harm to the global marine environment.

30th October 2011

Avoiding the slippery slope to lubricant pollution

30th October 2011