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Converteam Power & Propulsion For Karel Doorman JSS

Converteam has been  awarded a significant order from Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding to supply an Integrated Vessel Energy Plant solution for the Royal Netherlands Navy‘s new Joint Support Ship (JSS) Karel Doorman. This ship is a multi-functional platform for maritime support, strategic sea lift and seabased missions in open ocean and littoral waters, to be...

VLCC Success For Hamworthy Pumps

Fluid-handling specialist Hamworthy has signed a contract with marine equipment purchaser Hua Hai Engineering & Equipment Co., Ltd to deliver pump room systems for installation on four very large crude carriers (VLCCs) to be constructed in China. “This contract was won due to the proven technical ability of our equipment on previously built VLCCs”,...

STX France Receives Order For Luxury Cruise Ship

STX France has received an order to build a luxury cruise ship, the Europa 2. The new ship is being acquired by a third-party proprietary company outside the TUI group at the STX shipyard and will enter service in 2013. The vessel will complement the famous Europa (photo courtesy of Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten GmbH) in the...

Shippingefficiency.Org: 25,000+ Visitors In First Month

Carbon War Room, a not-for-profit organisation targeting market-driven solutions to climate change, announced today the launch of a series of online and live seminars for shipping industry participants on its Shippingefficiency.org online service – launched at the UN climate change talks in December. By the end of 2010, the site had logged over 25,000...

AVEVA Instrumentation Business Value Calculator

AVEVA one of the world’s leading providers of engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, today announced the worldwide launch of the Instrumentation Business Value Calculator (BVC), a brand new interactive tool that calculates the savings that can be achieved by engineering companies by adopting the latest instrumentation...

New MARIN Director Committed To Further Cooperation

As of January 1, the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is being led by Bas Buchner (front). He takes over from Arne Hubregtse (back), CEO of BigLift. Buchner: “Under the leadership of my predecessors George Remery and Arne Hubregtse MARIN has evolved into an entrepreneurial organisation in the middle of the Dutch and international...

STC-Group Orders Sophisticated Kongsberg Maritime Simulator Upgrades

Bringing new technology across the board for the leading Dutch maritime training college, STC-Group has signed a contract with simulation developer Kongsberg Maritime to supply extensive upgrades to its large suite of simulators. The contract consists of sophisticated extensions and upgrades to the group’s Kongsberg Maritime full mission and part task ship’s bridge simulators...

BW Ventures And Investinor AS To Acquire Oceansaver

BW Ventures and Investinor AS have made an agreement to acquire OceanSaver, one of the world’s largest ballast water management (BWM) system providers. Strengthening OceanSaver’s expansion strategy and roll out of its current NOK 400 million BWM order book, the sale will be finalised following approval by the Norwegian competition authorities and the completion of some...

T.O.S Supplier Nautical Personnel Rijkswaterstaat

As of 1 January 2011, TOS (Transport & Offshore Services) is the supplier of nautical temporary personnel (sailing) in the North Sea area for Rijkswaterstaat (RWS). “This three year contract really crowns the efforts of the past years”, says Victor Mees (left). Mees is project manager RWS for TOS and was already involved in the crewing...

Wilhelmsen Ships Service Acquires Nalfleet

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nalfleet, the marine division of Nalco, one of the world’s largest sustainability services companies. For more than six decades, Nalfleet has successfully supplied chemicals to the maritime industry. Together with its Unitor chemical range, this will further strengthen and enhance Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s marine...

Investing In A Thermal Camera

A thermal camera is a long term investment. Therefore a well informed decision is in order. FLIR‘s Infrared Training Center (ITC) is the leading source of knowledge within infrared science and its applications. The ITC is organizing seminars which will give more information about thermal imaging and provide the information to make a well...

ClassNK Continues Global Expansion

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) officially announced the opening of two new exclusive surveyor offices today in St. Petersburg, Russia; and Colombo, Sri Lanka, respectively. The new offices become the 117th and 118th offices in the Society’s global service network. The opening of the new offices continues ClassNK’s aggressive network expansion, which saw the class...

MAN Diesel & Turbo to Power New Chinese Rescue Ships

In a prominent contract involving two large rescue ships, MAN Diesel & Turbo is to supply two twin-screw complete propulsion packages – to be delivered in October 2011 and March 2012 – based on its latest MAN L48/60CR engines, Renk RSHL reduction gears and newly designed Alpha Mk 5 propellers. The two new rescue...

Biesheuvel Techniek Takes Over Activities Geul Techniek

Biesheuvel Techniek, distributor of mechanical MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) material, has taken over the activities of bankrupt Geul Techniek Spijkenisse BV, Geul Techniek Vlaardingen BV and Nordic Benelux BV – specialist suppliers of a wide range of pipes, valves, fitting, seals, fasteners, gaskets, instrumentation and other industrial material in the Netherlands’ Rotterdam area...

New Subsidiary of Blohm + Voss Industries

Having been represented by a regional agency, Blohm + Voss Industries (BVI) has opened its own sales and service branch in Singapore at the beginning of 2011. The new subsidiary will be managed by C.J. Ng (photo) who has worked in this region and in the ship supply industry for many years. The ship component...

CleanBallast: No Increase Of Corrosive Properties

RWO – in cooperation with a leading European corrosion institute (SWEREA-KIMAB) and the classification society Germanischer Lloyd – has carried out thorough accelerated corrosion studies in treated full-salinity seawater with the CleanBallast ballast water treatment system. The tests simulated operation over an approximate entire lifetime of a ballast water tank/piping structure (approx. 40...

New Version Of Wärtsilä 32 Engine

Wärtsilä has introduced a more powerful version for marine applications of its popular Wärtsilä 32 engine. First introduced in the 1980s, and with more than 4,000 units sold to the marine industry alone, the Wärtsilä 32 engine has proven to be a highly efficient and reliable solution for a wide range of vessel applications....

US Navy Awards Austal Multi-Vessel LCS Contract

The USA division of Australian-headquartered Austal has been awarded a US Navy contract to construct one Independence Class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The total value of the contract is USD 432.1 million. The contract includes options for nine additional vessels in the following five years. Construction of the first LCS vessel will commence in...

MacGregor RoRo Cargo Access Equipment Order

Four new LNG-powered RoPax ferries, destined for service in the Norwegian fjords, will feature a suite of MacGregor RoRo access equipment from Cargotec. In November Cargotec secured the order from Gdansk Shiprepair Yard Remontowa in Poland to deliver MacGregor cargo access equipment for four 4,200GT RoPax ferries. The equipment will be fabricated at Cargotec’s...

New Orders IHC Merwede Valued At EUR 500 Million

IHC Merwede has announced that it has recently secured assignments for vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of EUR 500 million. This further reinforces the group’s belief that there will be continued demand for its innovative vessels, advanced equipment and life-cycle support. Various IHC Merwede business...

EU Cargo Declaration Rule

Wilhelmsen Ships Service offers assistance to all ship operators affected by the new EU Cargo Declaration rule. The new European Advance Cargo Declaration takes effect 1 January 2011, requiring all carriers to pre-alert customs authorities of goods going in and/or out of the EU, Switzerland and Norway by providing an Advance Cargo Declaration (ACD). The...

Mammoet To Clean Up Ship Graveyard In Mauretania

Mammoet Salvage, part of Mammoet, specialisedin heavy lifting & transport, recently received the official order for the salvage of seventy shipwrecks in Nouadhibou Bay, Mauretania. The European Union has made EUR 28,8 million available for removing the wrecks. The salvage operation will start in April 2011 and will run for 22 months. Mammoet Salvage...

LCS ‘Dual Buy’ Double Win For ShipConstructor

Congressional approval to purchase ten each of both Lockheed Martin’s and Austal’s competing designs for the US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is a double win for ShipConstructor Software Inc. As with previously built LC’Ss, future vessels in both the Freedom (left) and Independence (under) classes are being 3D modelled and constructed by companies using...

Jeppesen Donates Chart Management Tools

Jeppesen has donated a classroom supply of its C-MAP OceanView office chart and route planning systems to the Merchant Marine Academy of Makedonia (AEN Makedonias) in Greece. AEN Makedonias was established in 1969 as a merchant marine academy for engineer officers. In 1975, the academy began training bridge officers. It is today the second-largest...

First Wind Farm Service Vessels Class Rules

DNV has developed the world’s first class rules for wind farm service vessels in order to improve safety and promote uniform standards. The rules will be published on 1 January 2011 but can be used as of today, and DNV has already secured a contract for the first two vessels. The very first vessel...