General News

An interim report on the Rena cargo ship grounding has revealed that the crew may have been taking a short cut which caused the incident.

Finnish company Eniram claims that its latest software product, Optimum Speed Assistant (OSA), will radically change the way the shipping industry manages speed, engine use and fuel consumption.

ABB has released details of a $60million contract to provide complete power and propulsion systems for the two cruise ships ordered by German operator AIDA from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Nagasaki shipyard.

Carisbrooke Shipping’s latest newbuild, an 8,500dwt multi-purpose dry cargo vessel named ‘Vectis Eagle’, has been fitted with Compac seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearings from Thordon Bearings of Canada.

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s PrimeServ division has concluded a four-year service contract with US-based cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line covering the maintenance of the engines on nine of the fleet’s cruise liners.

MAN Diesel & Turbo says that two Far Eastern companies have separately announced their intention to build prototypes of MAN’s two-stroke gas engine, which MAN says means the ME-GI is edging closer…

Greek company Erma First ESK Engineering Solutions says that it has received IMO final approval for its ballast water treatment system, which is based on hydrocyclonic filtration and electrolysis technologies.