General News

A new ship-breaking yard is to be established in Gdynia, Poland, at the SMW Naval Shipyard site in Gdynia, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

Nautical Control Solutions (NCS) has taken on a new distributor to sell the FuelTrax management system to the expanding OSV market in Southeast Asia.

Transas Marine says it has has installed a full mission engine room simulator at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), Singapore.

Strainstall Marine reports that it has recently secured an order to supply its StressAlert hull stress monitoring system to Hyundai Heavy Industries for a CSCL newbuilding order.

Hamburg-based Becker Marine Systems has announced a very good order intake during the past months, despite the current financial situation.

Vard Holdings Limited, formerly STX Offshore, is reorganising its engineering division in Romania with a series of transfers and de-registration.

Wärtsilä will retrofit its open loop scrubber systems on three more Color Line cruise vessels helping to confirm its leading position in the scrubber market.

Ulstein of Norway says that Brazilian shipowning company Oceana Offshore is to build two PX105 design PSVs at its new yard in Itajai, Brazil.