Month: May 2020

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

As FRP projects addressing fire, joining and flexibility issues progress, Stevie Knight asks whether the time is ripe for wider adoption of large-structure composites in shipbuilding.

11th May 2020

Time for a plastics rethink?

11th May 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Progressive, long-term design thinking underpins a Norwegian project for two ships to serve the humble but vital North European bulk cargo traffic, writes David Tinsley.

11th May 2020

HYBRID POWER FOR SHORT-SEA BULKERS

11th May 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Construction of Russia’s long-mooted, Leader-class nuclear icebreaker, specified with 120MW of propulsion power and destined for the eastern Arctic, has been awarded to Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex, writes David Tinsley.

11th May 2020

RUSSIAN GO-AHEAD FOR NUCLEAR ICEBREAKER BEHEMOTH

11th May 2020

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

Damen Shipyards Groups ferries department has recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The group which is dedicated to the waterborne public transport sector remains at the forefront of numerous initiatives that are driving…

8th May 2020

Innovation at heart of Damens ferry department

8th May 2020

REGULATION

REGULATION

The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU) is amending its previously drafted guidelines in response to COVID-19 in view of the continuing effects of the crisis. The full…

8th May 2020

Paris MoU revises COVID-19 guidance

8th May 2020

REGULATION

REGULATION

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has sent a recommended framework of protocols to ensure safe ship crew changes and travel during the Covid-19 pandemic to all IMO member states, the UN and…

8th May 2020

IMO backs protocols to facilitate crew changes

8th May 2020

WHITE PAPERS

WHITE PAPERS

The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU) has amended its previously drafted guidelines in response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance is being made publicly available to…

8th May 2020

Paris MoU: Temporary Guidance Related to COVID-19 For Port State Control Authorities

8th May 2020

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MAN PrimeServ is extending its ‘PrimeServ Omnicare’ solution in the marine market. MAN Energy Solutions’ service brands one-stop service solution will now include maintenance of non-MAN as well as MAN machinery, including…

8th May 2020

MAN PrimeServ diversifies Omnicare service offering

8th May 2020

LNG

LNG

The LNG bunker vessel Kairos, operated by Nauticor, has supplied Älvtank’s Ramelia in the first ship-to-ship bunkering operation for a product tanker in Germany.

7th May 2020

First ship-to-ship product tanker LNG bunkering in Germany

7th May 2020

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Technology Group Voith and Swiss holding company PCS Holding are planning to acquire a combined 59% of the shares in Traktionssysteme Austria GmbH (TSA), a leading manufacturer of electric motors, generators and…

7th May 2020

Voith to acquire stake in Austrian drive specialist

7th May 2020