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Wärtsilä integrated power and positioning systems have been selected for six offshore pipe laying vessels (PLVs) for use by Petrobras of Brazil, to be built in yards in The Netherlands, Brazil and…

Mitsui OSK Lines has ordered two new LNG carriers, one each from Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, both with steam turbine propulsion and independent spherical Moss-type tanks.

Transas Marine is to supply an ECDIS solution for a number of deep-sea chemical, petroleum and edible oil tankers.

A complete FORAN package has been installed in Guangdong Yuexin Ocean Engineering Co (GYOE) - formerly Yuexin Shipbuilding - after a three month trial.

STX Finlands Rauma Shipyard has celebrated the flag-changing ceremony of a specialised vessel built for the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of the Republic of Namibia and classed by Bureau Veritas.

The 2004-built, 25,268dwt Liberian-flag chemical tanker ‘Stolt Valor’, has arrived at Bahrain’s ASRY yard for repairs, following a fire and explosion in one of her cargo tanks while transiting the Arabian Gulf…

Germany’s Zeppelin Power Systems says the modernisation and re-engining of a 20-year-old Russian factory trawler could be a potentially viable cost alternative to newbuilding and a model for further such conversions.

ABB Turbo Systems of Switzerland says that it has played a key role in bringing the benefits of Wärtsilä’s RT-flex technology to two-stroke engine installation onboard smaller ships.

The provisional programme has been released for the Gas Fuelled Ships Conference 2012, organised by Mercator Media Ltd, which will take place from 12-14 September in Bergen, Norway.