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Alaska Diesel has introduced a soot trap and regeneration system (Stars) which can be fitted on any diesel engine up to around 200kW (268 bhp) output or 10 litres capacity.The unit requires…

Sixteen West and Central African States have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Port State Control (PSC). This means only the Gulf area and the Black Sea remain uncovered by PSC…

Valves : Latest valve range The G-Series valves from US company CPV are rated for up to 413 bar liquid or gas and function from -650F to 4000F, depending on the material…

Lloyds Register is making over 400 people redundant at its UK headquarters and while both DNV and GL has instigated a number of cost cutting measures. The redundancies at LR come as…

Positioning : Cable layer gets auto track Alstom Drives & Controls has won an order for three dynamic positioning systems from DG Electrical, the electrical engineering arm of Cammell Laird, for three…

Newbuilding orders rise In the quarter to June, newbuilding orders rose by 43 per cent to 6.5 million gross tonnes (mgt), says Lloyds Register.However, the world orderbook dropped by 1.7 mgt to…

Corrosion protection : BAC clocks up four years BAC Corrosion Control`s impressed current cathodic protection systems have now been operational on Stena Line fast ferries operating between the UK, Holland and Ireland…

No room for complacency During a three-month campaign member states of the Paris MOU detained eight out of 79 bulk carriers, above 30,000gt and over 15 years old, for structural deficiencies. While…

Boilers : BDT equips two cruise ships Greens Division, part of the newly formed BDT Engineering, has secured a contract to supply six Diesecon exhaust gas boilers and two spanner boilers to…