Month: August 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Thordon Bearings is to supply and install its COMPAC seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearing systems for two general cargo ships being built at Royal Bodewes shipyard for Finland’s Meriaura Group.

Importer · 28th August 2015

Thordon takes Meriaura Coasters order

Importer · 28th August 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Wärtsilä has been awarded another contract for scrubber systems by ro-ro and passenger vessel operator Finnlines, supplying a further three vessels after an initial contract for six ships last year.

Importer · 28th August 2015

Wärtsilä wins second Finnlines scrubber order

Importer · 28th August 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Bethan Bradley and Chris Moxon of leading maritime law firm Clyde & Co examine the complexities of contracting for ship conversions, with a focus on the growing field of conversions for LNG…

28th August 2015

LNG conversions raise legal issues

28th August 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Wilhelmsen Ships Service believes a new approach to drydocking – giving ship owners and managers the opportunity to work with an agent they know and trust – will make the process more…

28th August 2015

Time for a new approach to drydocking?

28th August 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

It’s a common mistake to assume that “if you take a midway position on technological development you get the best of both worlds,” says Pieter Dijkstra of Visedo Marine.

28th August 2015

Pieter Dijkstra: Don’t leave it halfway

28th August 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Work on a variety of callers, from container ships through ferries to cruise liners and offshore vessels, has kept German shipyards active into the autumn, reports Tom Todd.

28th August 2015

Varied work keeps German yards busy

28th August 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Mathieu de Tugny of Bureau Veritas admits that in the beginning he was a little insulated from commercial realities, assuming “like most engineers” that technology trumps everything. He talks to Stevie Knight.

28th August 2015

Mathieu de Tugny: Technology ‘is only the entry permit’

28th August 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

As the global maritime industry wrestles with the implications of ‘big data’, Peter Mantel, managing director of BMT SMART, examines how shore-based fleet and vessel performance management – and intelligent analysis of…

28th August 2015

Data intelligence is king

28th August 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Confined PSV footprint and need to do more - but don’t like working over the side? Then envelope operations inside a slide-out extension.

28th August 2015

More done out back

28th August 2015

REGULATION

REGULATION

Bill Thomson explores the major themes behind the forthcoming publication of integrated class rules from DNV GL, as the class society updates and streamlines the guidance of its two pre-merger predecessors.

28th August 2015

Class rules harmonised for efficiency

28th August 2015