General News

Marine and offshore classification society ABS has released a report on LNG bunkering in North America.

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s first deputy prime-minister, has said that Russia is considering the establishment of large commercial shipbuilding along the Crimean coastline, writes Eugene Gerden.

The European Union is funding a €1.2m grant contract, signed between the IMO and the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), to support training and capacity-building activities in Africa.

Wärtsilä Ship Design (WSD) Singapore has unveiled a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) design package aimed at ship owners and shipyards in the Asia-Pacific region.

Wärtsilä is to retrofit two Condor ro-ro ferries with its new Aquarius Ready ballast water management system (BWMS).

Leading power group, ABB has won an order from a Spanish ferry operator to supply energy management systems for one of its largest vessels.

AEC Maritime, based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, says that its closed-loop scrubber installation on the Scandlines ferry ‘Schleswig-Holstein’ has been commissioned and is now fully operational.

Tokyo-based classification society ClassNK is to acquire the Finnish maritime software house NAPA, in a deal which is claimed to help improve safety and performance of the maritime industry as a whole.