Surveillance & Maritime News for July 2023

Kongsberg Maritime announced that it has been selected to supply a large electric winch package for a pelagic trawler/purse seiner, currently being built for the Danish company - Astrid Fiskeri A/S at Karstensens Skibsvaerft A/S in Denmark. The contract includes delivery and commissioning of a set of powerful fishery and auxiliary winches, together with a large Variable Speed Drive package and the latest version of KONGSBERG’s control and monitoring system. Electric multidrive technology...

FESCO Transportation Group arranged the first shipment of refrigerated containers with perishable goods from Russia to Mongolia through the Naushki border crossing. Containers with food, cosmetics, and other goods were sent as part of a refrigerated train powered by a diesel-generator container from the Selyatino station (the Moscow region) to the Ulan Bator station (Mongolia) on 5 December. Transit time on the route is 20 days. The main advantage of this transportation type is fully contactle...

As Ocean Infinity embarks on its journey towards a carbon-neutral future and anticipates the arrival of its uncrewed Armada fleet of vessels, it bids farewell to some of its original fleets. The Pacific Constructor has been part of Ocean Infinity’s story since the beginning and has been instrumental in many of its most ambitious and exciting projects. Locating Stellar Daisy Stellar Daisy sank on 31 March 2017, transporting iron ore from Brazil to China. Tragically, 22 of the 24 crew wer...

MAN Energy Solutions announces that it is to offer its proprietary EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) system as an emissions solution for its new, low-speed ME-GA engine, the Otto-cycle variant of its established ME-GI dual-fuel engine. EGR is a NOx-emissions-reduction technique that ensures IMO Tier III compliance in both diesel and gas mode. The company has long experience with the emission-reduction technology and reported the first order for an EGR system in 2011 when it was fully integrated w...

FESCO Transportation Group (FESCO) has transported the first refrigerated container connected to the system for controlling the temperature of perishable goods on the route from Moscow - Vladivostok. Electronic navigation seal The test shipment of the container was organized in collaboration with the Center for the Development of Digital Platforms LLC (CRCP, cargo sealing operator) and Softtelematika LLC (part of National Telematic Systems) supervised by the Russian Federal Service for Veterin...

MAN Energy Solutions announces a new end-2-end reference for its digital service offerings within the key fishing segment. Norwegian trawler/purse seiner, ‘Odd Lundberg’, is a 70-metre vessel owned and operated by a business of the same name. Built in 2019, the fishing vessel features a MAN propulsion package, including a four-stroke L32/44CR engine, a MAN TCR20 turbocharger and a MAN SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) system, backed up by the MAN PrimeServ Assist data-driven servi...

Wan Hai Lines Ltd. is pleased to announce its plan to expand its existing service network between China to Southeast Asia by launching a new weekly service from South China to Vietnam on 25th November 2020. CV8 service The service, named CV8, will be operated with 3 vessels with an intake of 1,200 TEU. Wan Hai Lines will deploy 2 vessels while Interasia Lines will deploy 1 vessel. The service rotation shall cover Qingdao – Dalian – Tianjin – Ningbo – Xiamen – Cat...

Following the success of the M15 Twin Sterndrive Interceptor launched last year at DSEI Defense and Security Equipment International show in London, Marell Boats of Sweden has now taken an additional step in the high-speed interceptor market. Marell is launching the M15 Quad outboard open high-speed interceptor that includes fine tuning of the M15 hull, adding four Mercury 450HP Outboard engines on an extended platform, and support by dynamically operating jack plates. This vessel shows outstan...

Norwegian MV ‘Tertnes’ was the first vessel to call at Port of Esbjerg’s newly established bulk terminal. The vessel arrived with 10,200 tons gravel from Jelsa in Norway, and Blue Water acted as port agents and handled the discharging operation on 23 October. MV ‘Tertnes’ - with a dead weight of 11,546 tons, a length of 129 metres and width of 20.5 metres – is a modern special-purpose vessel fitted with a discharging boom increasing the discharge capacity com...