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GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Seattle-based naval architect and marine engineering firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA) signed an agreement with Todd Pacific Shipyards to deliver the detailed engineering for the B-Series 64 Auto Ferries ordered…

24th February 2010

GPA awarded car ferry contract

24th February 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has signed a $1.4 billion deal with Daewoo International Corp. to develop a huge natural gasfield in Myanmar.

24th February 2010

Hyundai gets Burma gas contract

24th February 2010

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Accreditation for Hamworthy Krystallon scrubbers on the list of emerging technologies has followed the US EPA’s decision to accept exhaust gas cleaning systems as a viable means of reducing emissions.

16th February 2010

Seawater scrubber qualifies as EPA ‘emerging technology’ to reduce particulate matter

16th February 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The US Navy has exercised contract options funding the construction of two additional Austal Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSV) as part of an existing 10-vessel, AUD$1.8 billion program.

29th January 2010

Austal secures JHSV 2 and 3 contracts

29th January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The World Shipping Council (WSC) and its members have proposed to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its member governments a new global ‘vessel efficiency system’ (VES) which would improve the carbon…

22nd January 2010

Proposed global vessel efficiency system to reduce carbon emissions

22nd January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Hamworthy Krystallon Ltd. has become the first non-North American-based company to be awarded accreditation as a manufacturer of an ‘emerging technology’ that has the capability to reduce marine Particulate Matter emissions by…

14th January 2010

EPA accredits Krystallon scrubber

14th January 2010

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

The Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association (EGCSA) says the industry must follow the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s leadership in sulphur reduction policies.

13th January 2010

EGCSA wants no green wash in 2010

13th January 2010

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Pipework anti-fouling systems from Cathelco of the UK hve been retrofitted to a class of 14 US military refuelling ships.

4th January 2010

MSC vessels fitted with Cathelco systems

4th January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

At the 4th Maritime Awards Gala held in Rotterdam, the KVNR Shipping Award 2009 was granted to the sustainable tugboat project known as E3 Tug. The E3 tug is being developed by…

9th December 2009

E3 tug receives award

9th December 2009

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The future USS Independence (LCS 2) successfully completed acceptance trials this week after completing a series of graded in-port and underway demonstrations for the United States Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey…

3rd December 2009

LCS 2 completes acceptance trials

3rd December 2009