Month: November 2011

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

‘Bourbon Front’ is the latest addition to join the Bourbon offshore support fleet and represents the first of a four-ship series based on the Ulstein design PX105 MACS.

29th November 2011

Bourbon gets Chinese X-bow PSV

29th November 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Trelleborg Industrial AVS (TIAVS) designs and manufactures mountings and isolation solutions for marine machinery on vessels of every type, and describes some particular products here.

28th November 2011

Good vibrations with cushioned mountings

28th November 2011

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Claiming to be one of the leading exponents of cutting-edge environmentally-efficient ship designs, the Gothenburg-based Stena Bulk has recently introduced its latest tanker newbuilding into service which incorporates a range of energy-saving…

28th November 2011

Stena leads the way with Eco Suezmax newbuilding

28th November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Solar Solve Marine has returned from a visit to the Kor-Marine Exhibition in Busan with a contract worth in excess of $500,000 over the next 12 months.

28th November 2011

Continued success for Solar Solve in Korea

28th November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

AVEVA Group UK has announced that German shipbuilder Nobiskrug has invested in the AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management product family (AVEVA ERM).

28th November 2011

Nobiskrug invests in AVEVA software

28th November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

With fleet management becoming more and more essential in todays world, and information being key, Transas Marine has introduced a new version of its fleet SSAS and tracking service FleetViewOnline 3.11.

28th November 2011

New Transas SSAS and tracking service

28th November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC) has finally settled restructuring negotiations through labour-management agreement and accelerated the normalisation of its operations.

28th November 2011

Hanjin Yeongdo Dockyard advances

28th November 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Dutch company Machine Support, part of the SKF group, says that during the period 1998-2006, one third of ship problems were machinery-related, and a significant proportion of these equipment failures resulted from…

27th November 2011

Design software aids calculation of shaft vibrations

27th November 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Danish company Silentor reports success with a project in which an initial order for five silencers grew to encompass the delivery of 84 silencer units in total.

27th November 2011

Well-designed silencers to deal with low frequency noise

27th November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Finnish air conditioning system supplier Koja Oy recently signed a contract with Meyer Werft GmbH for the delivery of the entire air conditioning systems for two 4,200 passenger ‘Sunshine-project’ cruise ships for…

26th November 2011

Koja Group gets its biggest order

26th November 2011