Month: February 2015

LNG

LNG

Wärtsilä is to supply DF dual-fuel engines for a specialised LNG bunker vessel being built by STX Offshore and Shipbuilding Company for Shell.

9th February 2015

Wärtsilä DF engines for Shell LNG bunker vessel

9th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam (DSR) has secured a new contract from Technip, for dry-docking, upgrade and operational modification to the deepwater rigid pipe S-lay and heavy lift vessel, ‘Global 1200.’

9th February 2015

Technip upgrade at DSR

9th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

ClassNK has updates its ship design support software PrimeShip-Hull (HCSR), making it the first computer programme to reflect IACS’ Common Structural Rules (CSR) adopted in December 2014.

9th February 2015

ClassNK software integrates common structural rules

9th February 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

A Dutch yard will build what is being described as the world’s first pure LNG driven port and inland barge for German owners, writes Tom Todd.

9th February 2015

Borkum bags first pure LNG barge

9th February 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Lindenau Schiffswerft in Kiel has completed unexpected bow repairs to the British offshore dive support ship Red7 Alliance after a collision with a lock gate on the Kiel Canal, writes Tom Todd.

9th February 2015

Lindenau tackles canal accident ship

9th February 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Netherlands-based shipowner Vroon Offshore Services has taken delivery of ‘VOS Pace’, the first of six PX121-type platform supply vessels designed by Ulstein.

6th February 2015

Vroon receives first of six Ulstein PSVs

6th February 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

A couple of new offshore support designs demonstrate that there’s more to style and efficiency than the inverted bow, writes Stevie Knight in the February issue of The Motorship.

6th February 2015

Beyond the X-Bow

6th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Cunard’s cruise ship, ‘Queen Mary 2’, is being fitted with a Wärtsilä advanced wastewater treatment system that will enable it to fully comply with the IMO’s pollution prevention requirements.

6th February 2015

Wärtsilä pollution prevention for ‘QM2’

6th February 2015

REGULATION

REGULATION

The shipping and bunker refining industries should not rely on a postponement to the IMO’s global 0.5% cap on sulphur in fuel, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has said.

6th February 2015

Work to 2020 sulphur deadline, ICS urges

6th February 2015

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Naval architect and marine engineers Foreship have worked with Finnish ship owner Meriaura Group on hull optimization for its two new ‘EcoCaster’ cargo carriers, which are expected to almost halve fuel consumption…

5th February 2015

Foreship hull form for Finnish ecoship

5th February 2015