General News

Wärtsilä has announced that on 31 January 2012 its acquisition of the British-headquartered, global engineering company Hamworthy plc became effective.

International Paint has announced that its principal anticorrosive primers and shop primers have successfully passed the IMO PSPC COT laboratory tests in accordance with MSC.288 (87) SOLAS regulations for cargo oil tankers.

IMO secretary-general Koji Sekimizu says that IMO is the right international body to deal with safety of passenger ships and, in particular, a safety review after the ‘Costa Concordia’ accident.

The UK Chamber of Shipping has rebuffed the idea that the shipping industry is trying employ “delaying tactics” around the introduction of further emissions regulation.

German companies Nippon Diesel Service and Gall & Seitz Systems have joined forces with Singapore partner CLLS (Singapore) to form a new company, to be known as Laser Cladding Singapore (LCS) Pte.

Tamrotor Marine Compressors (TMC) of Norway says that it has received orders for a total of 40 TMC SA 30 ‘Smart Air’ compressors for the 20 Triple-E ships ordered by Maersk Line…

Venteville, part of Imtech Marine, has been appointed as agent for a new ballast water management system developed by Siemens Water Technologies, and known as SiCure.

ABB has been contracted to provide an energy management system for the new environmentally-friendly cruise ferry for Viking Line, which is being built at STX Finland in Turku.