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Leif Höegh and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines have together ordered the world?s largest LNG carrier. The order, placed with Mitsubishi HI, is for a 145,000m3 vessel featuring a Moss Rosenberg spherical tank containment…

Valued for cost-effective, reliable and above all safe operation, increasingly mooring and anchoring equipment is likely to be automated and acquired as part of an integrated package from a single manufacturer. Already…

Comsat Mobile Communications has launched new enhancements for its Innarsat-C service and equipment as part of what it calls Simply Easy Comsat-CTM. The company says it includes a new Web interface, simplified…

The first onboard installation of MAN B&W?s L21/31 Holeby genset will not, as expected, be on one of the four DFDS Tor Line roro vessels on order at Flensburg Shipyard. Rather MAN…

P&O Ports Australia will push to implement sophisticated tracking and tracing systems at its Australian container handling facilities in 2002. P&O Ports general manager for container handling Tim Blood says technologies equipped…

A former cruise liner that re-entered service earlier this year with DFDS Seaways has assumed the mantle of Denmark?s largest cruise ferry after a conversion project which included installation of a hoistable…

Avecs says its Marine Event Recorder?s modular design allows it to be used in any vessel type and its data storage time can be adjusted to exceed IMO requirements. The company says…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has released further details on development of a 600mm bore UEC LSE engine (see The Motor Ship, December 2001). It says it expects to complete design work by this…

Flightship has completed the final phase of a lengthy three year classification process with Germanischer Lloyd for its futuristic wing in ground effect (WIG) craft. Flightship Australia managing director John Leslie says…

SeaFrance Rodin, the largest ferry ever to operate on the Dover to Calais route, recently entered service on the English Channel. Its entry into service heralds a new phase in trade on…