Month: January 2015

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

The latest of Wärtsilä’s X-generation engines, the X62, has passed design validation and type approval tests and is now fully available.

8th January 2015

Wärtsilä X62 engine approved and available

8th January 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Thordon Bearings has questioned the viability of environmentally acceptable lubricants (EALs), claiming that seawater is the only cost-effective and environmentally safe lubricant.

8th January 2015

Thordon Bearings questions use of EALs

8th January 2015

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

GE Transportation has appointed Turner Engine Powered Services as the UK distributor for its marine diesel engine parts and servicing.

8th January 2015

Turner EPS to distribute GE in the UK

8th January 2015

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

Olav Magnus Nortun will replace Olav Eek Thorstensen as chief executive officer of ship management company Thome Group from 1 April 2015.

8th January 2015

Thome Group appoints new CEO

8th January 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Russia’s Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev has announced a renewed focus on the commercial shipbuilding industry as a key aim regarding the development of the sector in 2015.

7th January 2015

Russia renews focus on commercial shipbuilding

7th January 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Exhaust gas cleaning system provider Green Tech Marine has been renamed Yara Marine Technologies after its acquisition by Yara International last year.

7th January 2015

Green Tech renamed Yara Marine Technologies

7th January 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) will design and supply two open-loop scrubbing systems for the main engines on the Stena RoRo vessel Forerunner.

7th January 2015

CROE wins Stena scrubber contract

7th January 2015

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

Mercator Media has appointed Gavin Lipsith as Editor of The Motorship, succeeding Bill Thomson who has retired after nearly eight years at the title.

7th January 2015

New editor at The Motorship

7th January 2015

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

Specialist fleet and vessel performance company BMT SMART has appointed Martin Penney as sales and marketing director.

7th January 2015

BMT SMART appoints Sales and Marketing Director

7th January 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Keppel Shipyard has secured the contract from Golar Gimi Corporation to perform the US$705m conversion of a second Moss Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier, the ‘GIMI’, into a Floating Liquefaction Vessel (FLNGV).

7th January 2015

Second FLNG vessel conversion order

7th January 2015