Month: April 2017

First newbuilds of many for new MV Werften (Photo MV Werften) VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Dramatic year for German shipbuilding

OPINION

British yard exports to China

Series-opener: The first of the STX-built aframax class, ‘British Respect’ VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Vigorous BP fleet development programme

The Ecochlor BWTS uses a two-step process to treat ballast water BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Ecochlor BWT systems for Minerva Marine vessels

A 250kN Fluidmecanica anchor winch on the Aker Arctic 130 icebreaking support vessel deploys eight ice-modified motors from Hoyer EQUIPMENT

Hoyer modifies motors for ice demands

Sergey Ogai (left), rector of MSUN, and Konstantin Dudarev, deputy managing director and OSV fleet team manager, Sakhalin branch, Unicom Management Services GENERAL NEWS

‘Floating lab’ to study electric propulsion

The development project was carried out under the terms of a memorandum of understanding cooperation signed in June 2016 LNG

COSCO and Wärtsilä design LNG fleet

EQUIPMENT

Toll orders Yara scrubbers for ro-ro duo

ERMA FIRST becomes the sixth BWMS supplier - and the first for a full flow electrolysis system - to gain US Coast Guard type approval BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

ERMA FIRST files for USCG type approval

Seven-cylinder X62DF dual-fuel engines from WinGD will power four Aframax tankers ordered last month by Sovcomflot LNG

WinGD hails LNG Aframax contract