General News

Bourgas Shipyards, a shipbuilding and repair yard located on the country’s Black Sea coast, has been put up for sale, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

Vard Holdings has announced contracts for the design and construction of two Vard 1.08 PSVs for offshore contractor Mermaid Marine Australia (MMA), which is based in Fremantle, WA.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, is to supply deck equipment for a series of eight 58,500 tonne bulk carriers under construction at New Times Shipbuilding in China.

France’s high-technology group, Orolia, has signed a strategic partnership with the global hardware and software provider, Transas, to develop new e-maritime solutions for the shipping industry.

ABB reports that its modular liquid-cooled drives and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are part of an application-specific propulsion and thruster power system for offshore supply ships from Vard Electro.

Insurer The American Club has warned its members that customs authorities in Argentina are becoming particularly strict regarding declaration of ships stores.

ClassNK, the Tokyo-based classification society, has established a new inspection panel into large containership safety, following the Japanese government investigations into the ‘MOL Comfort’ incident.

Classification Society Lloyd’s Register has issued a new study, ‘Global Marine Fuel Trends 2030’, as a follow-up to its 2013 report ‘Global Marine Trends 2030’.