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FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

New and upcoming emission regulations for ships will push towards greener sea based transports. Changing the fuel, from heavy high sulphur fuel oil to low sulphur diesel oil or natural gas, is…

26th September 2019

Cylinder lubrication challenges operating on low-sulphur fuel for two-stroke engines

26th September 2019

MSPFFC

MSPFFC

Lubmarine, a global business unit of Total Lubrifiants S.A., provides the shipping industry with pioneering marine lubricants and greases.

26th September 2019

Lubmarine

26th September 2019

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

A European port has ordered construction of the world’s first tug powered by hydrogen for ultra-low emissions to help it transition to sustainable, CO2-neutral operations.

26th September 2019

World’s first hydrogen-powered tug

26th September 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Japan’s NYK Line has placed an order for an LNG-fuelled pure car and truck carrier (PCTC). The 200 metre-long vessel is expected to become the world’s largest LNG-fuelled PCTC when it enters…

25th September 2019

NYK orders large LNG-fuelled car carrier

25th September 2019

OTHER EQUIPMENT

OTHER EQUIPMENT

Chris-Marine has launched its cylinder liner condition camera for use in in situ photography of the cylinder liner walls and the exhaust valve in two-stroke engines.

25th September 2019

New camera checks cylinders and exhausts

25th September 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

A new generation of ferries has been ordered in China to serve passenger and freight traffic between Britain and continental Europe on the busiest and shortest crossing of the English Channel, writes…

25th September 2019

FUTURE-PROOFED FERRIES FOR ENGLISH CHANNEL

25th September 2019

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

In a bid to expand its ballast water treatment systems to land-based operation, Korean-based Techcross has acquired former LG Electronics subsidiaries, LG Hitachi Water Solutions and HiEntech.

25th September 2019

Techcross environmental enterprise ambitions

25th September 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Despite the cessation of trade in oil products to many small, tidal ports and river berths in the British Isles over the past few decades, the NAABSA charter party clause denoting ‘Not…

25th September 2019

THUN RAISES SCOPE IN COASTAL TRADES

25th September 2019

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Japanese engine designer Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) announced plans to carry out research and development of the combustion of hydrogen and ammonia as fuel in collaboration with Japan’s National Maritime Research Institute.

25th September 2019

J-ENG to investigate hydrogen and ammonia as combustion fuels

25th September 2019

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

ABS and Topaz Energy and Marine have, together with the State Maritime Agency under the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan (ASMA), announced a pioneering project…

24th September 2019

Project for condition-based survey approach

24th September 2019