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Videotec announces the arrival of the SERIES2, its new generation of ex-proof MAXIMUS MPX PTZs.Thanks to 34 years of experience, Videotec has unparalleled knowledge in creating indestructible products for external use. As a result, the new SERIES2 range offers the most advanced technology and performance for security systems that operate in explosive atmospheres in...

Alphatron Marine South has received the order to supply a complete navigation and communication package for three beam trawlers sailing under the Belgian flag. A Beam trawler of this type was last built in 2002. Now 18 years later, the Z483 and Z39 are being built at Padmos Stellendam and the Z98 by shipbuilder...

Solar Solve Marine, the UK based manufacturer of SOLASOLV roller screens for ships’ navigation bridge windows has received an order from Austal, via their Australian Distributor. The order was for 42 SOLASOLV roller screens and is the first for two Cape-class patrol boats which are being built for the Government of the Republic of...

Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding has officially won the tender for the construction of four MKS 180 frigates for the German Navy. German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is “very optimistic that the construction contract can be signed this year”. “I am very pleased that the award procedure for the multipurpose battleship 180 can now be...

The final vessel in a series of five ship-assist tugs has been successfully converted to Thordon’s RiverTough tailshaft bearings and TG100 shaft seals and has returned to work on the Mississippi River. These five tugs are considered to be the first ship-assist tugs operating in the lower Mississippi fitted with both RiverTough bearings and...

Delivery of Stena Lines’ new E-Flexer Ro-Pax ferries have marked the 100th reference for Survitec’s proven Marin Ark 2 Marine Evacuation System. First of class Stena Estrid, delivered in January, is currently serving the Hollyhead-Dublin, route while newly delivered Stena Edda is operating Stena Lines’ Belfast-Birkenhead service. Each vessel is equipped with a pair...

Technology group Wärtsilä will provide a complete LNG package, comprising the Wärtsilä 31DF engine, gearbox, and LNGPac storage, supply and control system for two new ferries being built on behalf of Ferry Sunflower, a subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL). The ships are being built at Mitsubishi’s Shimonoseki shipyard in Japan, and will be...

Nairana, a unique all-aluminium ferry, has been equipped with state-of-the-art propulsion solutions from Schottel. Australian shipbuilder Richardson Devine Marine (RDM) has recently handed over the Incat Crowther design vessel to ferry owner and operator Sealink Tasmania. A structurally identical sister ship is currently under construction at RDM. Roger Janes, Sales and Marketing Manager of...

The shallow water pusher Tenacious was launched at Thecla Bodewes Shipyards in Kampen. Tenacious, with yard number 351, is the second pusher TB Shipyards builds in Kampen for its French client Compagnie Fluviale de Transport (CFT). After the successful delivery of sister ship Ambitious in February last year, CFT quickly decided to have another...

Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) is pleased to announce an important milestone in the conversion project of its new crane vessel Bokalift 2. A steel cutting ceremony took place at the shipyard Drydocks World in Dubai. This milestone marks the beginning of an important new phase in the modification of the vessel’s hull and deck....

AG EMS and Royal Niestern Sander celebrated the official start of the section building for the LNG conversion of the passenger ferry Münsterland. Royal Niestern Sander will design and build a completely new aft ship for the passenger ship from 1986, including dual fuel engines, LNG storage tanks, propulsion systems, all LNG installations, pipelines...

Offshore support services provider CWind has continued with its fleet development and expansion plans by signing a long-term agreement with Dalby Offshore. The agreement will see CWind immediately add four new vessels to its fleet with the option of an additional two vessels later in the year. It is evidence of the company’s commitment...

Damen Shiprepair Harbour & Voyage (DSHV) has signed a joint partnership cooperation with Verolme Special Equipment for the provision of services to exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS). The agreement arose from a mutual understanding that both parties’ clients were seeking wider availability of services for on-board scrubber installations – either in port or underway....

TV Dredging, part of the Holland Shipyards Group (HSG), has been awarded a contract by Hoftijzer Verhuur- en Aannemingsbedrijf to build a new deep suction dredger and booster pontoon. The new, custom-build vessel, will be used for sand extraction. The in-house engineered vessel, type TVD DSD 35 DE, has a dredging depth of 37m....

MAN Energy Solutions has won the contract to supply individual MAN B&W ME-LGIP (Liquid Gas Injection Propane) dual-fuel engines to three 5,000m3 LPG tankers currently under construction by CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering in Shanghai for Hartmann Gas Carrier, the German shipping company. Each newbuilding will receive a propulsion package featuring 1 × 5S35ME-LGIP...

International compressor supplier TMC Compressors of the Seas (TMC) has won a contract from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) to supply the marine compressed air system to a newbuild FPSO the yard is constructing for SBM Offshore. TMC will provide a compressed air system consisting of four large service and instrument air compressors with associated...

Following a successful testing and evaluation programme, Singapore-based Penguin International has selected Schottel’s Tunnel Thruster STT 51 FP for its flagship Flex-42X series of eight executive fast crew boats. Penguin is an integrated designer, builder, owner and operator of high-speed crafts as well as a prolific builder of mid-sized crew boats and armoured security...

JRC/Alphatron Marine has obtained a contract for the supply of four integrated bridge systems for the US-based Seabulk Towing, a subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings. Seabulk Towing Holdings provides ship services in seven ports in the Gulf of Mexico ports and Florida coast ports. Besides services they also offer customised solution-based offshore towing for short-...

The ultra-violet light technology used to kill the invasive species found in ships’ ballast water tanks can be used to protect seafarers, health workers and first-responders from picking up the coronavirus from surfaces. Following research by the France-based company behind the BIO-SEA ballast water treatment, a surface disinfection system could be ready for market...

Alewijnse Marine has completed the electrical fit-out of the Mexican Navy’s latest vessel; the Long Range Ocean Patrol (POLA) vessel ARM Reformador. Built at the ASTIMAR 20 naval shipyard in Salina Cruz, Mexico, with the Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards and its suppliers, it is widely regarded as the most advanced naval vessel afloat in...

VARD, Fincantieri’s subsidiary and shipbuilders of specialised vessels has signed a new contract for the design and construction of a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for Ta San Shang Marine, a joint venture between Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Ta Tong Marine (TTM). The vessel – the first one to be built for the Asian...

The shipbuilding group VARD has placed a contract with Hydroniq Coolers to deliver a hull-integrated seawater cooling system to a newbuild stern trawler currently under construction. VARD is constructing the vessel at its Vard Vung Tau yard in Vietnam. Under the contract, Hydroniq Coolers will deliver its hull-integrated Rack seawater cooler to the vessel....

BIO-UV Group, the French leader in UV-based water treatment technology, has received IMO & USCG type approval for its next generation low flow rate ballast water treatment system range. The BIO-SEA L Easy-to-Fit system had to undergo new type approval testing as it incorporates a completely new UV-reactor, designed specifically to meet market demand...

Kongsberg Maritime has developed a new Launch and Recovery System (LARS) solution for its Hugin range of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), which is set to bring about a series of far-reaching operational improvements. The new LARS solution benefits from the uniquely integrated combination of advanced in-house technologies which the Kongsberg group offers, reinforced with...

Scotland-based Malin Group is introducing a new hatches product range to its current marine offering and has appointed Fraser Gunn as its new business unit manager. Malin Hatches will be based at Malin’s existing Westway Business Park premises on the Clyde at Renfrew, with Fraser Gunn tasked with spearheading the company’s provision of gas...