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The Liberian-flag fleet posted record growth figures in 2010 and has now doubled in size in the ten years since the management of the Liberian Registry was assumed by the US-based Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR). The Liberian-flag fleet was boosted by 586 new registrations (average age: 5.46 years). Of these, 149 were...

Future Pipe Industries Group and its Swedish contractor Scanunit recently completed the installation of 1,200 meter of glass fibre reinforced epoxy pipe systems (GRE) onboard the Swedish icebreaker Atle, replacing 1,200 meters of corroded steel pipe. In addition to the GRE pipe system, some of the ship’s lubrication oil filters and plate heat exchangers...

Rolls-Royce has signed a GBP 20 million contract to supply engines and propulsion equipment for four gas-fuelled ferries to be built for the Norwegian operator Torghatten Nord AS. The vessels will be the first in the world to feature the Rolls-Royce Hybrid Shaft Generator. They will also include lean-burn Rolls-Royce Bergen gas engines and...

MARIS, that has delivered thousands of navigation systems to customers all over the world, has secured what is believed to be the world’s first type approval certification for an independent PC-based radar kit to meet the new Radar Performance Standard (MSC.192(79). The certification recognises the MARIS Radar Kit as an integral part of a...

Wilhelmsen Ships Service reports that it has finalised its agreement with Nalco to buy Nalfleet, a sales and technical service organisation specialising in marine chemicals. Last week, Wilhelmsen Ships Service announced that Graham Hunter (picture), former General Manager of Nalfleet, will head up its marine chemicals operations. He will lead a team of dedicated...

A salvage operation on a ship wreck 3,200 m below the surface of the South Atlantic has been successfully carried out thanks to the use of lightweight ropes made with Dyneema ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibre. Dyneema fibre, manufactured by DSM, is used by Hampidjan to make Dynex Warp, an advanced patent-pending winch line...

A collision involving the  multipurpose general cargo/container vessel Ems, owned by Werse Schiffahrts GmbH &Co, KG of Münster, Germany, recently brought a new customer to Gibdock, the Gibraltar-based ship repair yard. John Taylor of Gibdock says this particular project highlights the capacity of the yard to carry out intensive repair jobs of this type,...

Today, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) the global shipping and logistics provider, announced plans to award USD 100,000 in grants this year to entrepreneurs working on zero-emissions technologies for shipping and port logistics. WWL has also expanded the eligibility criteria for the Orcelle Grants. The deadline for submitting applications is Monday, March 21, 2011. Winners...

Boll & Kirch filters have been fitted to the new Queen Elizabeth Liner for Carnival. Built at the Fincantieri Shipyard in Trieste, Italy, the third  luxury liner to bear the name Queen Elizabeth joins the Queen Victoria and Queen Mary as the latest addition to the Cunard fleet. Costing GBP 365 million and weighing...

Castrol Marine lubricants has appointed Associated Motorways (AMW) as its exclusive distributor in Sri Lanka, extending an agreement between the two companies stretching back to 2000. Over the last decade, AMW has been acting on Castrol’s behalf to distribute lubricants for automotive and industrial applications. Now, AMW is setting up a 24/7 dedicated marine...

This year, GL Maritime Software’s fleet management software GL ShipManager and GL FleetAnalyzer will be implemented on board of 48 ships of Dutch shipping company Feederlines BV. Feederlines BV was founded as part of the Hartmann Group in 1995. The company owns a fleet of more than fifty vessels, consisting of dry cargo vessels...

AVEVA today announced that STX OSV AS has signed an agreement to purchase the full AVEVA Marine solution suite, providing STX OSV with a powerful system for integrated Hull and Outfitting design. STX has already begun the first project using AVEVA Marine with the design of a Platform Supply Vessel and two sister ships. The system will be...

An excavator formed an unusual yet highly effective partnership with a dredging vessel on the Lincolnshire coast in England last summer. Working on the Lincshore project, the Hitachi ZX470LCH-3 crawler excavator and trailing suction hopper dredger, Vlaanderen XX, have helped to ensure that future generations can live safely between the resorts of Mablethorpe and...

Maris and Seagull have reached an agreement to develop a comprehensive product-specific computer-based training ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) module. New requirements for competence and training have been amended in the STCW convention. As well as including approved ECDIS simulator training, the standard opens up wider delivery sources of training, including onboard...

The first vessel to sail with Kongsberg Maritime‘s sophisticated new K-Chief 600 marine automation system was delivered to its owner on 10th January 2010. The Korean Built VLCC features an extensive Kongsberg Maritime package, led by the K-Chief 600 with integrated Vessel Performance System (VPS), which supports reduced fuel consumption and lower emissions. Over...

VIKING Life-saving Equipment has announced signing its largest VIKING Shipowner Agreement to date. Shipowner Agreements offer a broad range of options and can be tailored for additional flexibility during the life of the agreement to cater for shipowners’ changing requirements. This time it is the turn of Swiss-based Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC), one of...

The final stages of construction of Austal‘s largest catamaran to date were celebrated with a traditional ‘coin ceremony’, followed by the vessel’s successful launch on 28 January 2011. Placing a coin at the foot of the mast of a newly constructed ship is an ancient maritime tradition which is believed to bring good luck...

DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Royal DSM N.V., has made an investment in Germany-based SkySails GmbH & Co. KG, who provide automated towing kite systems for ships. The investment is fully in line with DSM’s strategic commitment to sustainability, innovation and partnerships as outlined in its corporate strategy: “DSM in motion: driving...

Schat-Harding says IMO and some parts of the shipping industry need to move more quickly to a consensus on vital lifeboat safety issues which have important consequences for the safety of seafarers.  David Bradley, vice president operations, Schat-Harding Service says, “Good things are worth waiting for. But there is such a thing as waiting...

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have selected Hamworthy Krystallon exhaust gas cleaning as the preferred technology to take forward trials aiming to cut sulphur emissions and particulate matter from ships burning heavy fuel oil in port. The trials, set to begin this spring, will see the environmental solution installed on board...

ClassNK announced its final register statistics for 2010 today, revealing that nearly 20 million gross tons were added to the class society’s register this past year. The announcement came following a meeting of the Society’s Classification Committee, which certified that 664 vessels totaling 19,650,486 gross tons were added to the ClassNK Register in 2010....

FLAGSHIP, the pan-European maritime transport project part funded by the EU, has developed a monitoring system that applies the Technical Condition Indexing scheme (TCI) to help a ship’s crew monitor and improve the technical condition of the engines. The deployment of the FLAGSHIP-TCI system can help a crew to enhance voyage safety, lower fuel consumption...

Caterpillar Marine Power Systems was recently selected to provide combined propulsion systems for two Scandlines ferry newbuilds. The ferries will each be equipped with five MaK 9 M 32 C engines with Cat Common Rail. Each engine produces 4,500 kW at 600 rpm for 22,500 kW of total power per vessel. The engines are optimised...

The Oceangoing vessels division of Van der Velden Marine Systems has delivered the largest in-house designed Barke rudders in its history. The two flap-type rudders have been installed onboard the 30,000 cu.m trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Congo River. Built for the DEME Group, the impressive trailing suction hopper dredger was launched on 21...

ACE Winches has appointed Håvard Sæverud as country manager of its Norwegian division, ACE Winches Norge AS, operating from its base in Dusavik, Stavanger. Håvard is the latest appointment to a growing team, selected to strengthen ACE Winches’ Scandinavian business activities. With a career spanning 12 years, Håvard comes from a background in winching...