Month: April 2013

Two ballast water treatment system manufacturers – Hyde Marine and RWO – have announced that their systems have received AMS (alternate management system) certification from the US Coast Guard.

Norway’s Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in fellow Norwegian company, Maritime Protection AS.

Wärtsilä has received an order to supply a package of equipment for a series of LNG carriers being built at Sinopacific in China, for Danish operator Evergas.

“The psychological imperative to rescue a fallen seafarer is very strong”, yet more and more needless deaths in enclosed spaces are being reported each week, says Nigel Cleave, CEO of UK based…

Former leading German tanker builder Lindenau in Kiel reports handling a range of ships as it continues to consolidate in the wake of its take-over this year, writes Tom Todd.

Classification society ABS has announced significant investments in Singapore which it says will strengthen engineering and survey capabilities, as well as lay the ground for strategic global initiatives.

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Liens (Mol) has introduced its new Cadet Actual Deployment for Education with Tutorial (CADET) training programme as the first container CADET training vessel calls at Tokyo.

Swedens Alfa Laval is launching its third generation chemical free system for ballast water treatment, PureBallast 3.0, which the company says will help re-establish the company as a groundbreaker in ballast water…

DNV and Bergen-based open hatch bulker operator Greig Star have unveiled the results of a joint study into the energy saving potential of a battery hybrid system for operating electric cargo cranes…