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Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected to supply bridge navigation systems for nine new mid-shore patrol vessels to be built for the Canadian Coast Guard. The contract, valued at up to USD 3 million (USD), was awarded to Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine business unit in Canada through its dealer, Techsol Inc. The first of...

Van Aalst Group, developer and manufacturer of innovative bulk tank systems for the marine and offshore industry, will start building its new premises on March 3 at the Baanhoekweg in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, where the existing production facilities and R&D/training centre are located. Three of the group’s companies will be housed in the new...

Jotun Marine Coatings has announced the launch of  its Hull Performance Solutions (HPS), a new concept which guarantees significant reductions in fuel consumption by combining their premium antifouling SeaQuantum X200 and monitoring tools. Jotun’s HPS combines premium antifouling, priority technical service and reliable tools to measure hull performance over time and offer a unique money-back...

Electronic Navigation specialist MARIS has launched ‘Zero downtime ECDIS’, a new product support service devised to ensure that, once mandatory, Electronic Chart Display Information Systems (ECDIS) are available at all times. Available via subscription, it consists of a ‘hot or cold spare’ ECDIS delivered direct to the ship so that it can always proceed to the...

Cargo Care Solutions has extended its established partnership and signed an exclusive contract for the newbuilding sales and the service of Macor Marine equipment. As the starting point of the just agreed collaboration, Cargo Care Solutions is set to service the newly‐ordered ferries at J.J. Sietas KG Schiffswerft GmbH for Danske Færger A/S and...

Pipe coupling manufacturer Teekay Couplings Ltd. has announced that they are supplying their patented fire-protected pipe couplings to the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers for the Royal Navy. The Queen Elizabeth Class 65,000t aircraft carriers are 280 m in length with accommodation for up to 1600 people. The vessels are being built in multiple stages at...

Coatings supplier Hempel has announced a general product price increases, driven by raw materials suppliers increasing prices as well as shortages of some raw materials and rising energy costs. Hempel is making as many cost-saving measures as possible, but in order to continue to supply the same quality products and service to its customers...

Castrol Academy, Castrol Marine‘s new assessment tool comprising eleven technical training modules to help marine engineers and crews develop a range of skills and improve knowledge levels, has been recognised by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA). RINA’s endorsement follows the appointment by Castrol Marine of Maersk Training as a global non-exclusive distributor...

Wilhelmsen Ships Service‘s continues expanding its liferaft service station network, opening a new Liferaft Exchange (LRE) service station in Darwin, NT. The station will be fully operational from March 2011. “The Darwin LRE station will be the first for the company in Oceania and will have a strong focus on servicing vessels associated with the...

On renewing its safety equipment servicing contracts, Germany’s E.R. Schiffahrt, a leading ship-owner and ship management company, chose to take a leading edge approach. By custom-tailoring a Ship-owner Agreement servicing contract offered by VIKING Life-Saving Equipment, the shipping company has managed to create a global servicing agreement supported at 42 locations with a single point...

Maersk Line has signed a contract for ten of the world’s largest, most efficient container vessels with an option to buy another twenty. The vessels will have a capacity of 18,000 TEU and will be delivered from Korea’s DSME shipyard from 2013 to 2015. The new, giant container vessels will be known as Triple-E, for their founding principles are ...

ClassNK announced today that at the end of 2010, the combined tonnage of Panamanian flagged vessels on the class society’s register had broken the 100 million gross ton barrier. This marks the first time in history that a single flag state has had more than 100 million gross tons on any class society’s register....

International Paint Ltd. is set to initiate product price rises in response to spiraling global raw material costs. A number of raw materials key to the manufacture of both Marine and Protective Coatings products have been affected, including epoxy resins, titanium dioxide, solvents, copper and other metals. The company has little choice but to reluctantly...

Marking an important milestone in the growth of the company’s operations in the South America region, Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s new West Coast South America Safety and Liferaft Service Stations in Valparaiso, Chile have become fully operational. The company is already certified to service its own brand of Unitor RFD liferafts, so the Liferaft Service...

Together with partners in the MARLEN project, DNV recently completed the development of a supply chain performance tool for calculating the environmental impact and energy efficiency of maritime logistics chains. Two case studies – with Höegh Autoliners and Statoil – demonstrated how increased use of shipping can achieve environmental and financial benefits for the whole supply...

JOWA Technology has developed a fuel management system based on its Diesel Switch DSMK II. It  is claimed the world’s first fully-automated switch over and blending system with a GL approval certificate. The system mixes HFO and low-sulphur MDO/MGO to the precisely correct sulphur content for traffic in Emission Control Areas (ECAs). The result is significantly...

Port security and coastal protection are key issues for the maritime security authorities, responsible for security of commercial shipping worldwide. So it is only logical that asymmetric threats to ports and coasts are also a focal issue at the international MS&D Conference, to be held at the Hamburg Fair site from 15 to 17...

Ulstein has signed a contract for delivering an offshore IMR/ construction vessel of the Ulstein SX148 design to Eidesvik Offshore ASA. The newbuild comes as a consequence of Subsea 7 and Eidesvik Offshore closing a contract for eight years for a new subsea IMR vessel. Ulstein states that by working closely with Eidesvik Offshore...

Herbert Engineering Corp. (HEC) and ABS have announced that they have agreed to form a joint venture company, Herbert-ABS Software Solutions, LLC (Herbert-ABS), that will offer leading edge loading and salvage analysis software packages as well as software design tools to the maritime and offshore industries. Herbert-ABS will own, market and support the existing suite of Herbert...

STX Finland Oy and Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of the Republic of Namibia have, on 11 February, signed a contract for the construction of a fisheries research vessel. The ship, with a contract value of about EUR 35 million, will bring some 250 man-years of labour to STX Finland’s Rauma shipyard. Delivery is scheduled...

Ropes made with Dyneema, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), are proving a safe and secure alternative to steel wire rope for connecting barges and vessels in ‘push combinations’ working on inland waterways. Captain Grinwis and crew of the push combination Norma, with a lot of steel wire rope experience on other push combinations, are extremely satisfied...

FLAGSHIP, a part EU-funded maritime transport project, has successfully delivered the first advanced emergency situation management tool for fire and flooding with integrated ship to shore real time reporting: FLAGSHIP-DSS (Decision Support System). The system delivers an accurate, early prediction of how a fire or flooding may impact on a ship at any given...

Telemar, in partnership with Vizada, has signed a deal with Singapore-based Pacific International Lines (PIL) to provide broadband communications for their container vessel fleet. PIL, a major ship owner in Singapore, has concluded this deal for the Inmarsat FleetBroadband service on 88 vessels and 27 new builds. As one of the largest ship owners...

ABS president and chief operating officer (COO) Christopher J. Wiernicki will assume the duties of chief executive officer (CEO) of ABS following the ABS annual meeting in April 2011. Robert D. Somerville, currently chairman and CEO of ABS, will relinquish the CEO responsibilities while remaining chairman of both ABS and the ABS Group of...

VSTEP has announced a distribution and training partnership with Centro de Investigación y Entrenamiento Marítimo y Fluvial (CIEMF) a training business unit of Servicio Integral de Prácticos S.A. (SIPSA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. CIEMF was the first customer in Latin America to implement the NAUTIS simulation software on its Full Mission Bridge Simulator. CIEMF is VSTEP’s first Latin...