Month: October 2017

LNG

LNG

Wärtsilä’s joint venture company CSSC Wärtsilä Engine will deliver 16 engines for four new LNG carriers.

18th October 2017

Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines to power LNG carriers

18th October 2017

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

Plan B Energy Storage (PBES) has received DNV GL Type Approval of its energy storage system certifying it for use in commercial marine, offshore oil and gas and renewable energy applications.

18th October 2017

DNV GL type approval for PBES energy storage system

18th October 2017

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DESMI Pumping Technology A/S is introducing a new solution that enables shipowners and operators to avoid overheated and damaged electric installations reducing costs and energy loss.

17th October 2017

DESMI solution to reduce costs and energy loss from electrics

17th October 2017

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Shipowners and shipbuilders can increase engine efficiency, save energy and reduce costs with a new gas valve unit.

17th October 2017

Gas valve unit increases engine efficiency

17th October 2017

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A new app allows yards and owners to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to analyse the fuel efficiency of hull design variants at full-scale.

16th October 2017

Clever app analyses fuel efficiency of hull design variants

16th October 2017

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Neptun Werft has taken orders for six more135m river cruise ships to build alongside the giant FERUs now in regular production for Meyer, reports Germany correspondent Tom Todd

16th October 2017

Flexible Neptun builds longships and FERUs

16th October 2017

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

The Norwegian vessel ‘Viking Princess’ has become the first ever offshore supply vessel in which batteries reduce the number of generators aboard the ship, after technology group Wärtsilä completed the installation of…

13th October 2017

Viking Princess swaps generator for battery

13th October 2017

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A prototype of the world’s first class-approved ship propeller has been produced using 3D printing techniques.

13th October 2017

3D printed propeller progresses towards approval

13th October 2017

LNG

LNG

ENGIE, Mitsubishi Corporation and NYK have been selected by Norwegian multinational energy group Statoil to be their LNG marine fuel supplier in the port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, for four crude…

13th October 2017

Statoil selects Gas4Sea for Rotterdam bunkering

13th October 2017

LNG

LNG

Gas Natural Fenosa, one of the biggest LNG suppliers in the world, and Connect LNG have together performed the first ever floating LNG ship-to-shore transfer.

13th October 2017

Debut for floating ship-to-shore transfer system

13th October 2017