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To meet the future legislative emission limits with today?s medium and high-speed diesel engines, all engine manufacturers have to consider electronic controlled injection systems, which allow optimised combustion and engine control close…

Although maligned for its excessive and unnecessary bureaucratic interference, the EU does support worthwhile projects such as the development of safer ?high speed craft? (HSC), i.e. ships with design speeds of well…

VT Group has added its voice to calls to restructure the UK shipbuilding industry while at the same time ruling out a bid for the Clydeside operations owned by rival BAE Systems.…

Regulatory responses to marine casualties, which have dictated age limits for ships, have provoked vigorous debate about the issues of age and ship maintenance. While it has been argued that a well…

Norway's maritime research and construction sectors are successfully exploiting a paradox ? they are selling silence to niche market on a global scale at healthy profit margins.The vessel design is being pushed…

Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited (II), (RasGas) has signed a time charter agreements with Teekay Nakilat Corporation for the long-term charter of three 151,700m3 LNG vessels to be built at…

A DOR (Design, Operation, and Regulation) for Safety ? or in short SAFEDOR ? is the name of an ambitious initiative towards an integrated project within the 6th Framework Program (FP6) of…

The Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, a non-university research institute dedicated to interdisciplinary marine research in coastal and marginal seas, is expanding its capabilities with a new, state-of-the-art, ice-breaking research vessel. The…