Vessels & Shipyards

The latest addition to the Ostenso Rederij fleet claims that it’s capable of cutting the typical PSV energy draw by between 25% and 30% - while still running plain ordinary diesel, writes…

Wendy Laursen speaks to Jesse Millar, naval architect at BMT Design and Technology, to see how his companys Baseline Management System can assist shipowners as they tackle the demands of energy efficiency…

Offshore support vessels are becoming more and more densely engineered, especially in the North Sea where the oil majors play a large part in driving the technology relentlessly upward, says Stevie Knight.

Investment in hull coatings is on the rise, and manufacturers are responding with a range of new performance promises, writes Wendy Laursen

Stevie Knight says that holding hands with a Brazilian collaborator who knows the water may be the best way to negotiate the ‘local content’ directive and the mire of other regulations that…

The Deepwater Enabler is the response to a tipping point according to Bob Rietveldt of Ulstein. Cheap is no longer really viable if it limits what you can do, and given this,…

Although people often seem to be looking for the next novel power source, it’s more likely that the offshore support market will see an increasingly complex set of combinations rather than a…

‘Bow Pioneer’, delivered this year to Odfjell Tankers of Norway by DSME in South Korea, is the largest type 2 chemical tanker afloat, and is described here by David Tinsley.

“You can’t assume much about what’s really happening to fuel consumption when a vessel is in Dynamic Position mode,” David Barton of Global Maritime tells Stevie Knight.

What shape should the next generation of ferries take? was the question addressed by Rolls-Royce’s Blue Ocean team at the InterFerry Conference, held earlier this year in Malta.