General News

MAN Diesel & Turbo has opened its 11th PrimeServ academy in Frederikshavn, Denmark, to provide propulsion and propeller training, offering both general training and specialised courses.

Wärtsilä has made an agreement with Canadian company, Trojan Technologies, to offer the Marinex ballast water management system (BWMS) along with the Wärtsilä Hamworthy Aquarius range.

Castrol Marine has launched Cyltech 80 AW, an 80BN cylinder oil developed for two-stroke crosshead engines to match engine performance with the demands of varying sulphur fuels and the impact of slow…

DNV reports that it has developed a simulation model using global shipping data and technology-specific information to predict the deployment of emission reduction and energy efficiency technologies up to 2020.

Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven Maritime has signed contracts with Eidesvik and Ugland for, respectively, a large offshore subsea construction vessel and a platform supply vessel. Both are to designs by Salt Ship Design.

German propulsion specialist Schottel has added a rim thruster, designated SRT, to its portfolio. The SRT is targeted mainly at offshore support ships, inland waterway vessels and large yachts.

Energy efficiency and new shipping strategies has been a major focus of the Posidonia 2012 international shipping exhibition taking place in Greece this week.

The Liberian Registry has introduced a sophisticated programme to screen advance notice of ship arrivals as part of a detention prevention plan.