Month: March 2021

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

Three LNG-powered multi-purpose vessels ordered from Germany’s Abeking & Rasmussen ship and yacht shipyard (A&R) by the German government will be equipped with Schottel propulsion systems and condition monitoring services.

16th March 2021

Intelligent maintenance for LNG vessels

16th March 2021

REGULATION

REGULATION

Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has released an updated set of classification rules for wind propulsion systems (WPS). The new rules are intended to support and drive the development of zero carbon…

15th March 2021

BV releases updated wind propulsion system rules

15th March 2021

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

Results from the initial application of ABS’s Corrosion Detection digital solution show that it is able to identify corrosion with an accuracy rate of 98.9%.

15th March 2021

Smart tool finds corrosion with 99% accuracy

15th March 2021

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

K-Line’s new car carrier, built by Tadotsu Shipyard, has become the world’s first newbuild to obtain ClassNK notation certifying that the ship is adapted for remote surveys.

15th March 2021

Remote survey notation for K-Line carrier

15th March 2021

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Halliburton AS, the oil fields service provider, has awarded Høglund Gas Solutions AS a turnkey contract to manage the conversion of a RoRo combination carrier to operate on LNG fuel.

15th March 2021

Halliburton commissions LNG retrofit for RoRo combi carrier

15th March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Dutch shipbuilding has reinforced its leading European position in short-sea vessel design and construction by way of a EUR 21 million (US$25m) contract for two 6,080dwt multi-purpose cargo vessels, writes David Tinsley.

15th March 2021

SHORT-SEA FOCUS ON EFFICIENCY GAINS

15th March 2021

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Uniper has teamed up with Liberty Pier Maritime Projects and engineering firm Ship Design & Consult (SDC) to establish green methanol as a sustainable and carbon-neutral marine fuel.

12th March 2021

Advancing green methanol in shipping

12th March 2021

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Climate Investor Two (CI2) has approved an investment to support the lease of Damen’s portable ballast water treatment solution to customers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

12th March 2021

Damen BWTS investment

12th March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Shell has signed long-term charter agreements for ten newbuild LNG-fuelled very large crude carriers (VLCC). The ten vessels will be built at DSME in South Korea, with the first vessel scheduled to…

12th March 2021

SHELL SIGNS CHARTERS FOR 10 x LNG-FUELLED VLCCS

12th March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

A research project aimed at raising the competitiveness of Europe’s small and medium-sized (SME) shipyards has been launched with EU funding, writes David Tinsley.

12th March 2021

TECHNOLOGY DRIVE FOR EU’s SMALLER YARDS

12th March 2021