General News

The Keppel Verolme yard in The Netherlands has announced a contract from Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) for the drydocking survey of the deepwater construction vessel (DCV) ‘Balder’.

MAN Diesel & Turbo has won a contract to supply the engines for two 160,000m³ Greek LNG carriers. The installation of MAN 51/60DF dual-fuel engines represents the company’s first such reference in…

US based vessel control solutions company, Marine Technologies LLC, has ordered Lilaas AS’s new electronically controlled lever technology for a BridgeMate thruster control system, being built for a new Platform Support Vessel…

Receiver Berthold Brinkmann wants to cancel five newbuilding orders at insolvent German shipyard group P+S Werften in the hope of meeting EU conditions for approval of local credits to complete other orders.

Wärtsilä says that the 1,000th order has been placed for its low-speed two-stroke RT-flex marine diesel engines, which feature full electronic control and common-rail fuel systems.

A series of six 5,000m3 next-generation LPG tankers is nearing completion in China for Hartmann Reederei – the second German owner to expand its fleet of gas tankers in recent months, writes…

A 20% increase in service demands this year, has pushed Propulsion Dynamics’ hull and propeller performance monitoring service, Casper, to reach its 5,000th report.