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ExxonMobil reports that its lubricant experts have been working together with engineers from Athens-based Danaos Shipping to extended a piston overhaul interval from 16,000 hours to 42,575 hours.

Reintjes says that class society RINA has completed extensive tests and inspections and granted type approval to the Fortjes drive, making it the only podded drive in this power range with class…

‘Berlin’, the first of two new 169m ferries for Scandlines, will be named March 9th in Stralsund, cementing the German-Danish operator’s commitment to traditional Baltic ferry services.

Bremen-based water and wastewater treatment company RWO says that it can now offer its maritime customers an additional service for retrofittings of its sea-tested CleanBallast treatment system.

According to Norwegian company Vimex, inaccurate measuring of fuel quantity when bunkering can often add 5% to 10% to shipping companies’ fuel bills; its system can help avoid this unneccessary expense.