Month: March 2012

ABB has released details of a $60million contract to provide complete power and propulsion systems for the two cruise ships ordered by German operator AIDA from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Nagasaki shipyard.

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s PrimeServ division has concluded a four-year service contract with US-based cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line covering the maintenance of the engines on nine of the fleet’s cruise liners.

Carisbrooke Shipping’s latest newbuild, an 8,500dwt multi-purpose dry cargo vessel named ‘Vectis Eagle’, has been fitted with Compac seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearings from Thordon Bearings of Canada.

MAN Diesel & Turbo says that two Far Eastern companies have separately announced their intention to build prototypes of MAN’s two-stroke gas engine, which MAN says means the ME-GI is edging closer…

Greek company Erma First ESK Engineering Solutions says that it has received IMO final approval for its ballast water treatment system, which is based on hydrocyclonic filtration and electrolysis technologies.

Following an outline of major terms of Dubai-based DDW’s debt restructuring last week to its coordinating bank group, the group has now formally launched its restructuring proposal at a meeting of all…