General News

MAN Diesel and Turbo is to supply an MAN 9L32/44CR engine to power a new trawler for independent US fishing company, Fishermen’s Finest.

W&O Europe has become the exclusive distributor for Hyde Guardian Gold ballast water management systems in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Havyard Ship Technology is to design and build two more 843 Ice offshore icebreakers, to be built at its Leirvik shipyard – a contract worth NOK 1bn (US$148m).

Canadian energy storage system supplier Corvus Energy says that it has been awarded a contract to supply a lithium polymer battery bank for the conversion of a ferry to hybrid propulsion.

To promote liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel within the maritime and offshore industry, a memorandum of understanding has been signed between DNV GL and Qatar shipyard Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM).

MAN Diesel & Turbo reports that the recently completed 19,000 teu newbuilding for China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), built by Hyundai in Korea, is powered by a MAN B&W 12S90ME-C Mark 9.2…

Ferry operator Stena Line has confirmed its plans to convert the 240m, 1,500-passenger, 2001-built ro-pax ship ‘Stena Germanica’ to run on methanol fuel.