Month: July 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Financing has been secured for the building of another 10 Viking Longship inland cruise newbuildings at Germany’s Meyer Group and for the first time half of the order will be completed in…

8th July 2013

Finance secured for more Meyer Longships

8th July 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Global investment company, Indofin Group, has acquired a majority stake of 62% in Netherlands based IHC Merwede – Rabo Capital (10%) and IHC Merwede management and staff (28%) are the other principle…

8th July 2013

Indofin acquires IHC Merwede

8th July 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Finnish company Eniram has announced the launch of its so-called “fourth generation” Eniram vessel platform (EVP).

5th July 2013

New fuel optimising monitor launched

5th July 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

We never fail to be amazed by the things that cruise operators add to their vessels to keep paying customers happy.

5th July 2013

MacGregor to supply ‘viewing crane’ to cruise newbuild

5th July 2013

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Shell Marine Products is expanding the reach of its range of marine lubricants further into the Middle East-South Asia (MESA) market.

4th July 2013

Shell Marine targets Oman

4th July 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The final programme for this year’s Gasfuelled Ships (GFS) Conference, which takes places onboard the Viking Line’s ‘Viking Grace’, has been released.

4th July 2013

Final GFS Conference 2013 programme

4th July 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Rolls-Royce has contracted with Brazilian shipyard Aliança Industria Naval e Empresa de Navegacao, for a design and equipment package for two offshore vessels.

4th July 2013

Brazilian offshore contract for Rolls-Royce

4th July 2013

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Wärtsilä has announced that the RT-flex58T version D ER-3 has successfully passed its Type Approval Test (TAT) at licensee Diesel United (DU) in Japan.

4th July 2013

Type approval for another RT-flex engine

4th July 2013

LNG

LNG

Caterpillar Marine Power Systems has shipped its first MaK M 46 DF dual fuel marine engine to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan.

3rd July 2013

First dual-fuel MaK engine goes to AIDA cruise ship

3rd July 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Scandlines and STX Finland have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to build two new double ended gas-fuelled ferries.

3rd July 2013

STX Finland signs letter of intent with Scandlines

3rd July 2013