Month: March 2021

SUPPLIER NEWS

SUPPLIER NEWS

Renowned as ‘First Aid for sterntubes’, Vickers’ HYDROX 21 was launched in 1971 for use where vessels require emergency assistance in reducing oil leakage past a damaged sterntube aft seal.

11th March 2021

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of HYDROX 21

11th March 2021

SUPPLIER NEWS

SUPPLIER NEWS

Show Fullscreen Airedale Mills 1967Vickers Oils current place of business to this day  

11th March 2021

Company Gallery – Vickers Oil

11th March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Germany’s MV Werften (MVW) has completed sea trials on the first of an originally planned trio of unique Polar expedition cruise ships as Covid threatens the future of the shipbuilding group, writes…

11th March 2021

Trials for unique newbuild as MVW faces cutbacks

11th March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Stena Bulk has unveiled its InfinityMAX concept design for a fuel cell hybrid ship with detachable modules that the company says represents a paradigm shift in bulk cargo transportation.

11th March 2021

ZERO-EMISSION, MODULAR SHIP DESIGN FOR STENA BULK

11th March 2021

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Responding to the UN Secretary-General’s call for urgent action on climate change, the global shipping industry is giving full backing to a ‘moon-shot’ proposal for the large scale deployment of zero-carbon ships…

11th March 2021

Industry backs decarbonisation plan

11th March 2021

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a new equipment order for four pure car truck carriers being built at the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Nanjing) for Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line).

11th March 2021

MacGregor to equip new NYK Line PCTCs

11th March 2021

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

A new design platform being developed as part of the EU CHEK project will initially be used to design a near-zero emissions bulk carrier and a cruise ship, but it is also…

10th March 2021

NEW DESIGN PLATFORM TARGETS INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE LOW-EMISSION TECHNOLOGIES

10th March 2021

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Green methanol is establishing itself as a contender in the 2050 bunker fuel market, with the chemical industry motivated to go green and new production facilities and new ships raising optimism around…

10th March 2021

METHANOL PRODUCTION IS TURNING GREEN AND SHIPPING IS TAKING NOTE

10th March 2021

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Shipowners want to return to a water lubricated propulsion arrangement, but shipyards are preventing the wider take up of the environmentally sustainable solution, writes Patrik Wheater.

10th March 2021

Shipyard inertia preventing wider adoption of water-based lubrication

10th March 2021

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

Maine ferry operator, Casco Bay Lines, is installing ABB’s integrated hybrid-electric power and propulsion solution on its new vessel, cutting around 800 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year and significantly improving air…

10th March 2021

ABB hybrid solution for new Maine ferry

10th March 2021