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Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea has been awarded a contract to build four suezmax tankers for Athenian Sea Carriers in Greece.The order also includes an option for four more ships. The…

Ingersoll-Rand has announced that its coolant-flooded, rotary screw air compressors between 4-90kW are now using Eff2 or better electric motors which, it says, provides an average 20 per cent saving in energy…

Debeg Satlog 4124, an integrated satellite navigation and speed log system with combined 24-channel GPS-Glonass positioning, has been introduced by STN Atlas Marine Electronics.Providing simultaneous or separate position and speed calculations via…

A procession of increasingly larger post panamax newbuildings enter liner service, with more on order.The first of five 5,500 TEU post-panamax container ships, all with completion dates this year, has been delivered…

Aker Finnyards and the G A Ferries in Greece have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the construction of a ropax ferry which is intended for use on shorter international routes…

Ingmar has launched Caretronic, pipe production design and operation scheduling tool for use in continuous process industries. It uses a flexible telescopic system called Scopelink which incorporates a series of connecting straights…

Shipping software provider BIMCO has released updates of its Voyage Estimator and Laytime Calculator.Laytime Calculator 2000 is designed to produce demurrage and despatch calculations, laytime reports and standard time sheets.Its main features…

The polymer commonly used in the making of teats for baby bottles lies at the heart of Jotun?s latest launch.As environmental awareness has grown, so have restrictions on a number of different…

Poland?s shipbuilding industry, which has tended to specialise in building smaller container ships in recent years, received an order boost in January in the form of a glut of contracts for Gydnia…

Marinfloc says its sludge de-watering unit, which has been tested onboard Atlantic Compass and Boheme, reduced the water content of sludge on the vessels by 50 per cent and the company says…