Month: January 2022

LNG

LNG

The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) has released the third revision of its “LNG as a marine fuel - Safety and Operational Guidelines – Bunkering” publication.

20th January 2022

SGMF updates its guidelines for LNG bunkering

20th January 2022

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

WasteFuel, a California-based developer of low-carbon biofuels, has launched WasteFuel Marine, a renewable fuel solution for the shipping sector. WasteFuel Marine’s initial product will be bio-methanol for container ships.

20th January 2022

Biofuels manufacturer enters the marine market with bio-methanol

20th January 2022

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

NYK and the Knutsen Group of Norway have established a joint venture company for the commercial development of a liquefied CO2 marine transportation and storage business worldwide.

20th January 2022

NYK and Knutsen establish liquefied CO2 transportation and storage business

20th January 2022

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

ABB Turbocharging is bringing the benefits of propulsion digitalization to the shipping industry with the introduction of Turbo Insights, a new analysis feature that provides indications for performance optimisation, fuel savings and CO2…

19th January 2022

ABB adds digital analytics feature to turbochargers

19th January 2022

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

NAPA and Bureau Veritas (BV) have announced a partnership to enable more effective and widespread use of 3D models in the class approval process.

19th January 2022

NAPA and Bureau Veritas enhance hull design approvals by using 3D models

19th January 2022

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Australian energy producer Woodside has entered into front-end engineering design (FEED) activities on a hydrogen project for the first time, awarding a contract for FEED engineering services to Kellogg, Brown & Root…

19th January 2022

Woodside starts FEED for Oklahoma hydrogen project

19th January 2022

REGULATION

REGULATION

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) has published the full set of questions that may be asked during a SIRE 2.0 tanker inspection, when its new inspection regime is implemented during…

19th January 2022

OCIMF publishes SIRE 2.0 Question Library

19th January 2022

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

The Nippon Foundation, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, and Shin Nihonkai Ferry Company have successfully completed a demonstration test of the world’s first fully autonomous ship navigation systems on a large car ferry.

19th January 2022

Fully autonomous ship navigation systems tested on Japanese ferry

19th January 2022

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Damen has signed its first contract with the Greek ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) company, Erma First for the supply of its oneTANK system, said to be the world’s smallest BWTS.

19th January 2022

Damen signs new BWTS deal

19th January 2022

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Bureau Veritas (BV) has been selected to undertake the project certification of the first offshore windfarm in the Celtic Sea, in Wales, UK and one of the largest floating offshore wind projects…

19th January 2022

BV to certify Celtic Sea’s first windfarm

19th January 2022