Month: May 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering will today deliver the first of a new class of gas transport vessels, ordered by Danish fuel and gas shipping company Evergas.

28th May 2015

Wärtsilä integrates systems on Evergas carrier

28th May 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Evoqua Water Technologies has been awarded a second US patent on its technical solution for treating ballast water.

27th May 2015

US patent for Evoqua BWMS

27th May 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Wärtsilä has received an order for ballast water management systems (BWMS) for three new container ships being built for a major European shipping company at the Jinhai Shipyard in China.

27th May 2015

Wärtsilä BWMs for Jinhai container vessels

27th May 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Charterers moving one fifth of global shipped tonnage now effectively exclude inefficient vessels, says the Carbon War Room.

27th May 2015

Excluding inefficient vessels

27th May 2015

LNG

LNG

US-based Moran Towing Corporation, a partner of Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), has been granted US Patent 8,967,174 for ‘Articulated conduit systems and uses thereof for fuel gas transfer between a tug…

27th May 2015

Moran Towing secures LNG fuelling patent

27th May 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The US Coast Guard (USCG) and China Classification Society (CCS) have added type approvals for Danelec’s DM100 voyage data recorders (VDR) and simplified voyage data recorders (S-VDR).

26th May 2015

Type approval for Danelec VDRs

26th May 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MAN PrimeServ Turbocharger has signed a Premium Turbocharger Maintenance Contract with Anglo-Eastern Ship Management that covers around 300 turbochargers installed on its fleet.

26th May 2015

MAN signs maintenance contract with Anglo-Eastern

26th May 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Launched at the end of 2012, GAC’s automated hull cleaning unit EnvironHull – a remotely operated machine that can perform rapid underwater hull wiping – will soon be launched in several more…

26th May 2015

Saving paint, saving lives

26th May 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The energy company will use GAC EnvironHull’s system to clean hulls of its vessels operating in Scandinavia, the Middle East and Asia.

26th May 2015

Statoil chooses GAC automated hull cleaning

26th May 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

The electrical and instrumentation specialist has signed an agreement with Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard (ASRY) to offer its services from the yard in the Arabian Gulf.

26th May 2015

Relay Engineering joins emerging Manama hub

26th May 2015