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New tonnage orders for the cruise industry continue with French yard Chantiers de l`Atlantique securing a construction contract from operator Radisson Seven Seas France. Ordered is a 46,000t newbuilding scheduled to be…

Korean yards are starting to make their presence felt in the international passenger/car ferry newbuilding market. Last month Samsung secured an order for two passenger/car ferries for Greece`s Minoan Lines. Now Daewoo…

Chinese yard Shanghai Edward Shipbuilding Co has signed a contract to build a 16,800 dwt chemical tanker for Swedish owner Rederi Donsoetank AB. The yard, which is working with a full orderbook…

Wartsila NSD has secured the first order for its low-speed RTA68T-B engines from the Polish shipyard Stocznia Gdynia. The two six-cylinder engines will be installed in a duo of 78,500m3 LPG carriers…

Horst Kohler from MAN B&W`s engine technology promotion department argues that diesel engines remain the best option for cruise ship propulsion. When Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines signed a deal to use turbines…

Specialist equipment manufacturer Horn has added two four-stroke engine protection products to its portfolio. The MEV278 is a compact safety system gives overspeed protection and monitors all the functions required by the…

In the quest for greater speed, ship designers are increasingly looking towards gas turbines. Turbine driven containerships! You can almost hear the gasps of astonishment in Copenhagen and Winterthur. Containerships - the…

MAN B&W`s PMI System is a portable computerised tool which can be used for performance evaluation of the company`s two-stroke diesel engines. The system measures the cylinder pressure via a piezo-electric transducer…

Combination carriers have been out of fashion for much of the 1990s. A recent design aims to change this. Norwegian shipbroker, O-J Libaek & Partners, a company with over 40 experience in…

Air Industrial Developments has introduced a water-wash booth system called `Tri-Filter` which incorporates a three-stage filtration process. It is designed to be used where paint spraying is part of a manufacturing processes…