Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has launched a topical new e-mail newsletter called ?GL-Infomail? to keep its customers up to date on new and revised regulations, interpretations and information about IMO, IACS and GL…

Rolls-Royce?s two new lean, clean and mean marine gas engines provide a power range from 1MW to 8.5MWDesigned and manufactured at Rolls-Royce?s Bergen facility in Norway, the K and B series of…

In ensuring optimum lifetime reliability of a medium-speed diesel engine the user must be aware of certain key factors, not least the importance of the supplier/user relationship .To achieve an acceptable level…

Using Nimalike in the production and reconditioning of two-stroke components provides outstanding product properties.It is 7:30 in the morning in the assembly shop at the Märkisches Werk in Halver (MWH) and a…

German ship owners like Schiffko?s CV1100 PLUS feeder design.With all the hype about post-Panamax and ultra-large containerships, it is easy to overlook the vital role played by the smaller boxships up to…

New orders for ever-larger containerships look set to elevate Seaspan?s global position.Director of Vancouver-based Seaspan Container Lines (SCL), Graham Porter, says "Among the main limiting factors in building container ships over 10,000…

Propulsion power plant dilemma for ultra large container ships .Container transportation volume has been growing at an average annual rate of 9 % in the past fifteen years, making it the fastest…

Thyssen Krupp yards build GEBAB quarter.In the face of intense competition from Far Eastern shipbuilders, it comes as a surprise that German shipyards are still able to win orders for feeder container…

Wärtsilä is ready for steam injection, particularly when energy prices rise.Since the end of the EU-funded STID (STeam Injected Diesel engine) project to develop and test a new combined diesel and steam…