General News

Finnish engine company Wärtsilä has recorded higher profits than expected for the second quarter of 2008, but is seing a slow down in new orders for the ship power division. The whole…

GE Marine has announced that it is supplying LM2500-based propulsion systems for two new Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) amphibious ships. The vessels are being built in Spain, at…

Ships sailing off the California coastline or calling at Californian ports will be compelled to use low sulphur fuel as from July next year. From July 2009, the maximum sulphur level in…

Paris-based classification society Bureau Veritas has entered an agreement with the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation delegating BV the authority to conduct statutory certification services and to issue certificates for…

Naval architect Guido Perla and Associates has announced that construction is now under way in China of the first of a series of 54 offshore support ships. The ships are to the…

Aker Yards of Norway is reported to be among the bidders for Poland's cash-stretched shipyards. The yards have been given a deadline, extended to 12 September, to come up with a privatisation…

Aker Yards has announced that the Ukraine authorities have approved the bid by Russian-controlled, Luxembourg based, investment group FLC West to acquire a 70% stake in three Aker Yards' shipyards - two…

ABB Turbocharging of Switzerland is launching a new family of turbochargers, the A100 series, which is designed to offer pressure ratios up to 5.8:1 from a single-stage unit. The first in the…

The Carlyle Group, which describes itself as a global private equity firm, has acquired a 50% stake in Turkish shipbuilder TVK. TVK was founded in 2005 in the Kocaeli free trade zone…

MAN Diesel reports that AP Moeller - Maersk has ordered 18 × MAN B&W 6S80ME-C9 engines for a series of container ships. All of the engines will be built by HHI-EMD, Hyundai?s…