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SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

Advanced, flexible powering arrangements coupled with refinements on a longstanding cargo containment technology characterise new entrants to the Japanese-controlled LNG carrier fleet.

3rd March 2020

MOSS-TYPE SYSTEM FOR CAMERON LNG TRADE

3rd March 2020

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

As Maersk tells employees to stay home after travel to affected countries, and China’s PMI slips below 2008 lows, Covid-19’s impacts on shipping become clearer.

3rd March 2020

Coronavirus wreaks havoc across global shipping industry

3rd March 2020

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

IMO 2020: lubricants take centre stage in a sulphur-constrained era

3rd March 2020

IMO 2020: lubricants take centre stage in a sulphur-constrained era

3rd March 2020

LNG

LNG

Cameron LNG’s Train 2 of its liquefaction-export project in Louisiana, US, has begun commercial operations under the tolling agreements in place to export LNG to customers in the global market.

3rd March 2020

Cameron LNG’s Train 2 begins operations

3rd March 2020

LNG

LNG

An SNG drop-in fuel pilot project on the world’s first LNG retrofitted container feedership, Wes Amelie, later this year could be followed by further trials with SNG volumes possibly reaching 100%, writes…

2nd March 2020

Wes Amelie SNG trials could be expanded

2nd March 2020

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

London-headquartered Rolls-Royce Holdings is to conduct what it describes as “a strategic review” of its Bergen engine division in Norway, writes David Tinsley. The medium-speed designer and manufacturer is no longer viewed…

2nd March 2020

ROLLS-ROYCE TO REVIEW BERGEN DIVISION

2nd March 2020

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Bawats ballast water treatment system (BWTS) has been awarded type approval by the United States Coast Guard.

2nd March 2020

Bawat BWTS awarded USCG approval

2nd March 2020

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 has become one of the first non-Chinese ballast water treatment solutions to be type approved by the China Classification Society.

2nd March 2020

Alfa Laval BWTS given Chinese approval

2nd March 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Australian company TT-Line has cancelled contracts for two 48,000gt ro-pax ferries at Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft(FSG) in Germany and plans instead to take the project to re-emergent Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC), writes…

28th February 2020

GERMAN YARD LOSES TT-LINE CONTRACT

28th February 2020

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

ABS Group has launched a new set of safety and risk-based services to support the 2021 Cyber Risk Management (CRM) guidelines recommended by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

28th February 2020

ABS launches cyber security services

28th February 2020