General News

International advanced motor, drive and control technologies supplier, GE Power Conversion, has been chosen by China’s Dalian Shipyard to supply the complete drive and automation system for its Goliath crane.

Global power expert, Cummins Marine, has supplied three Cummins KTA38-M3 HD engines to power the first of two crewboats newly built by Cheoy Lee Shipyard in China.

Global power and automation group, ABB, has won a US$12m contract to power a new deepwater pipe laying vessel being built in Singapore.

Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven (LWB) has bagged a contract to build a 33,000gt construction and pipe-laying vessel for delivery to London-based CEONA, reports Tom Todd.

A fire broke out onboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the Grandeur of the Seas, yesterday, which put paid to over 2,000 holidaymakers’ holidays.

The joint venture owned by Wärtsilä and Yuchai Marine Power Co Ltd, Wärtsilä Yuchai Engine Co Ltd, has begun construction of its new production facilities in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province of China.

A joint three-year research and development project has been inaugurated between Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and HeavyLift@Sea.

A new three year European Research Project, CASCADe (model based Cooperative and Adaptive Ship based Context Award Design), has been launched to help increase safety onboard vessels.

The German shipbuilding industry has criticised an “enormously damaging” recommendation at the IMO to delay the introduction of stricter emission limits, saying it jeopardises efforts to develop eco-friendly and economic ships and…

There’s a new green technology partnership in Japan – Eco Marine Power (EMP) has teamed up with KEI System Ltd to launch a new system capable of monitoring and controlling eco power…