Month: December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Japanese company NYK has revealed plans to build a tug featuring a dual fuel engine that can run on either LNG or HFO.

27th December 2013

Japan’s first LNG-fuelled vessel to be built by NYK

27th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Dutch company Royal Boskalis has announced that the tug ‘Smit Elbe’, which is based in the port of Rotterdam, has become the first tug in the Netherlands to be fuelled with Shell…

27th December 2013

Rotterdam tug is first to use synthetic diesel

27th December 2013

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

MAN Diesel & Turbo was first to the market with an LNG-fuelled two-stroke engine, and is now looking other low flash point fuels, as well as helping existing vessels save fuel and…

26th December 2013

MAN looks at alternative fuels and optimising the existing fleet

26th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Mikhail Gutseriev, Russian billionaire owner of the Russneft company, one of the country’s leading oil producers, is reported to be considering purchasing the Red Sormovo shipyard and the Proletarian factory in St.…

24th December 2013

Russian billionaire may acquire troubled shipbuilding assets

24th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Damen Shipyards has been awarded a second contract from the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Government for an 80m ice-class ro-pax ferry.

24th December 2013

Second Damen ice-class ro-pax for Canada

24th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

ClassNK has set up a special Casualty Investigation Team in order to look in to and determine the cause of casualties, following the loss of the container vessels, ‘MOL Comfort’.

23rd December 2013

‘MOL Comfort’ investigation

23rd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The World Ferry Safety Association (WFSA) has announced the coming year’s international student competition for designing a safe ferry.

23rd December 2013

Ferry design competition 2014

23rd December 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The Deepwater Enabler is the response to a tipping point according to Bob Rietveldt of Ulstein. Cheap is no longer really viable if it limits what you can do, and given this,…

23rd December 2013

Buoyant enough for the market

23rd December 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Although people often seem to be looking for the next novel power source, it’s more likely that the offshore support market will see an increasingly complex set of combinations rather than a…

22nd December 2013

Tying it all together

22nd December 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

‘Bow Pioneer’, delivered this year to Odfjell Tankers of Norway by DSME in South Korea, is the largest type 2 chemical tanker afloat, and is described here by David Tinsley.

22nd December 2013

Odfjell brings new scale to chemical trades

22nd December 2013