Month: December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

By the time this issue appears in print, ships in ECAs will be mandated to cut sulphur emissions to 0.1% fuel content, or take equivalent appropriate measures, while the global 0.5% limit edges closer, and attention is turning to carbon…

Importer · 31st December 2014

Shipping still undecided on emissions legislation

Importer · 31st December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

Will people remember 2014 as the year the game changed? If they are in the oil and gas support sector, then that’s quite likely... writes Stevie Knight

Importer · 31st December 2014

2014 Support Sector Review: A changing game

Importer · 31st December 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Danish company GreenOil reports on a collaboration with ship operator Torm involving using filtration rather than centrifuges to clean lubricating oil in the auxiliary engines of two ships, by Joel Goodstein.

31st December 2014

Wool lube oil filters claimed to perform better than centrifuges

31st December 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

David Tinsley describes the first of a new class of double ended vessels for Washington State Ferries, strongly conventional and traditional in concept, but designed with conversion to gas fuel in mind.

31st December 2014

Revitalisation of Pacific Northwest ferry fleet

31st December 2014

REGULATION

REGULATION

Bureau Veritas has updated its towing and lifting notations to reflect the wide variety of vessel types now employed in the industry; Wendy Laursen elucidates.

31st December 2014

New requirements focus on towing and lifting

31st December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

“Nothing stays the same,” Geoff Dean of OSD IMT tells Stevie Knight: “Change is what drives the industry, so there’s no point in wishing it otherwise, you just have to stay ahead.”

31st December 2014

Geoff Dean: A life in design

31st December 2014

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

An LNG tanker has had its engine converted to LNG without modifying the ship structure, while MaK and larger Cat engines continue to rack up orders from the offshore market sector.

31st December 2014

Caterpillar undertakes first in-hull LNG retrofit and reports new orders

31st December 2014

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Transas is supplying a full-mission classroom and cloud based Transas technical simulation (TechSim) package to the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College.

31st December 2014

Cloud-based simulation in US

31st December 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Motorship sends its best wishes for the New Year and we welcome Gavin Lipsith who takes over as editor on 5 January. All the best for 2015 to all our readers,…

31st December 2014

Happy New Year – and changes for 2015

31st December 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

United Shipbuilding Corporation, the Russian state-controlled shipbuilder, has completed its purchase of the remaining half of Arctech Helsinki Shipyard’s shares from former joint owner STX Finland.

31st December 2014

Arctech Helsinki passes to Russian ownership

31st December 2014