Month: July 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Waste technology expert Evac has been selected to supply its total waste management system to the world’s largest newbuild civilian hospital ship, the Atlantic Mercy.

22nd July 2015

Mercy Ships selects Evac waste system

22nd July 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH is joining forces with Darmstadt-based Akasol GmbH to develop battery systems for MTU’s hybrid and e-drive propulsion systems.

22nd July 2015

MTU and Akasol collaborate on energy storage

22nd July 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Grand Bahama Shipyard Limited (GBSL) has completed repairing the 228m drill ship ‘Stena Forth’ ten days ahead of schedule - a job which challenged the yard’s traditional way of approaching project development…

21st July 2015

Bahamas drill ship repair

21st July 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven (LWB) has signed a letter of intent for three ocean-going cruise liners understood to be of around 120,000gt and two top-end inland cruise ships, writes Tom Todd.

21st July 2015

Lloyd Werft to build cruise ship quintet

21st July 2015

REGULATION

REGULATION

A spot survey of product tankers has revealed that few are prepared for impending regulations on the monitoring of biofuel discharge, according to Rivertrace Engineering.

21st July 2015

Biofuel regulations threaten tanker productivity

21st July 2015

LNG

LNG

As GTT North America prepares to deliver the first LNG bunker barge in the US, general manager Aziz Bamik speaks to The Motorship about the milestone project and how the company plans…

20th July 2015

GTT North America prepares for LNG lift-off

20th July 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A new antifouling agent from Swedish firm I-Tech, Selektope, has been approved for EU-wide use by the European Union Standing Committee on Biocidal Products.

20th July 2015

Selektope antifouling receives EU approval

20th July 2015

LNG

LNG

A project between DNV GL, Hyundai Heavy Industries, GTT and ship owner GasLog has concluded with an LNG carrier concept offering claimed energy efficiencies of around 8%, with a 5% increase in…

20th July 2015

Next-generation LNG carrier concept revealed

20th July 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Chinas Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has won a bid for the construction of nine AHTS vessels for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, ESNAAD.

20th July 2015

New order for Sinopacific Shipbuilding

20th July 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä has renamed its Ship Power division Marine Solutions, and announced plans to make around 600 redundancies, as it reorganises the unit in light of the “sluggish global marine market”.

20th July 2015

Wärtsilä Ship Power reorganised amid redundancies

20th July 2015