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The technology group, Wärtsilä (Wärtsilä Corporation) will supply main and auxiliary engines, fuel storage tanks, gas handling equipment and electrical systems for a new RoRo vessel being built for Australian-operator, SeaRoad Shipping. The orders with Wärtsilä Corporation were placed in Q1 2022. The 210 metre-long vessel is under construction at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) shipyard in Germany. The vessel will operate primarily on LNG fuel. Wä...

Danfoss Power Solutions’ Editron division will power the U.K.’s first high-speed passenger ferries, with the first vessel joining Uber Boat by Thames Clippers’ fleet in autumn 2022. The two 40-metre-long vessels will be built by Wight Shipyard Co on the Isle of Wight. Hybrid ferries The two new hybrid vessels, each capable of transporting up to 230 passengers, will help London achieve its ambitious target of becoming a zero-carbon city by 2030. Mayor Sadiq Khan has made tack...

Engee PET Manufacturing Company in Nigeria is a major manufacturer of high-quality, food-grade PET resin in West Africa. The company’s factory, located at lgbesa in Nigeria’s Ogun State, was commissioned in 2017, as part of a backward area development programme. The plant has a production capacity of around 150,000 tons per annum. Transportation of resin products In 2021, the company needed to transport resin products of nearly 250 twenty-foot equivalents (TEUs) from Jiaxing, Chin...

The southern hemisphere’s first fully electric, carbon fibre commuter ferry has completed its inaugural round trip with a Thordon seawater lubricated propeller shaft arrangement supplied by New Zealand’s Henley Engineering. Ika Rere, Mãori for flying fish, joined the East by West fleet in December operating the company’s Wellington to Eastbourne route. Fast, efficient, and smooth Commenting on the ferry’s first trip, between West Queen’s Wharf and Days B...

Ocean Infinity has contracted VARD for the design and construction of a new series of six multi-purpose offshore vessels, all of which will be operated from shore and will eventually utilise green ammonia as fuel. VARD’s robotic vessels This landmark order of six, 85-metre, optionally crewed robotic vessels will take Ocean Infinity’s remote vessel fleet capacity to 23 vessels, which will be the largest in the world. With Ocean Infinity’s control infrastructure and remote con...

Jay Jay Textiles’ journey towards business expansion with lifestyle logistics solutions is stitched to perfection. Established over 50 years ago, Jay Jay Textiles has a strong presence in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, as a vertically integrated manufacturer of cotton knitwear for children’s apparel and home products. In the past few years, Jay Jay Textiles has branched out to Ethiopia, starting with three factories in the Bole Lemi Industrial Park, located in nation’s capit...

As supply chain disruptions continue to wreak havoc on global economies, Oosto is helping to ease port security and landside operations, which are burdened with increased security challenges, operational risks, and tightening regulations, through the use of the company’s renowned visual AI-driven access control solution. Facial recognition technology Group 207, a globally renowned leading-edge maritime logistics operator in the Port of Ashdod, Israel, recently implemented Oosto’s f...

MAN PrimeServ Augsburg – has completed the retrofitting of dual SCR systems aboard the ‘MS Amadea’, a cruise ship chartered by PHOENIX Reisen GmbH Bonn (Germany) and managed by BSM Cruise Services. Also known as ‘Das Traumschiff’, the Amadea is well-known in Germany as the main filming set for a very popular television series. The retrofit developed by MAN PrimeServ Augsburg integrated an SCR system into both of the Amadea’s four-stroke MAN 7L58/64 propulsion...

Inmarsat, the world pioneer in global, mobile satellite communications, has implemented an agreement with Geoquip Marine allowing the offshore geotechnical solutions provider to offer dedicated Fleet Xpress bandwidth as part of its vessel charter arrangements and separated connectivity for personnel onboard. Charterer network services Four Geoquip integrated geotechnical survey vessels have introduced Fleet Xpress Charterer Network services for sole use by charterers plus connectivity via Flee...

Tersan Shipyard has choosen Brunvoll Azimuth propulsion thrusters and Auto-Crossing system for two new Fjord1 ferries. Brunvoll announced that the company has signed a contract with Tersan Shipyard in Turkey for the delivery of azimuth propulsion units and control systems, for autonomous operation of two electrical double-ended shuttle ferries for Fjord1, in Norway. Brunvoll solutions for Fjord1 ferries The sister ferries are designed by HAV Design AS and will operate routes between Stranda &...

Inmarsat, the globally renowned company in global, mobile satellite communications, has secured a new contract for its flexible, three-in-one network service, Fleet LTE, from independent Norwegian owner, Golden Energy Offshore. Using Fleet LTE, three modern Global Energy Offshore support vessels can switch between Fleet Xpress (Ka-band), FleetBroadband (L-band), and 4G coverage, depending on the strongest available signal. Band selection will be made automatically, in a seamless process develop...

Persistence paid off for Vestdavit in winning its first order with the Finnish shipyard Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) to supply davits for a series of the Finnish Navy’s four new build multi-role combat vessels, thereby bolstering its position in the wider Nordic naval market. The Pohjanmaa-class corvettes are to be constructed at RMC’s shipyard in Rauma, Finland as part of the navy’s €1.23bn ($1.36bn) Squadron 2020 project to replace seven ageing vessels, and each wil...

Kongsberg Maritime is pleased to announce that Ocean Infinity has signed an order for 6 HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) rated to 3000 metres depth. The vehicles are equipped with a geophysical sensor suite and the latest generation KONGSBERG batteries. New vehicles for global operations The new vehicles will be mobilised for global operations, enabled by Ocean Infinity’s remote operations infrastructure. The vehicles will integrate as part of the Armada fleet of uncrewed and...

Teknotherm has announced that the company will be delivering the HVAC systems for the world’s largest zero-emission freight ferry. Scandlines, Cemre Shipyard and LMG Marin are developing this innovative vessel, for the Puttgarden-Rødby route between Denmark and Germany. Developing new HVAC technology Their philosophy of building innovative solutions and according to a green vision for the future fits perfectly into Teknotherm’s strategy of continuously developing new HVAC t...

In September 2017, a treaty adopted by the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) to help prevent the spread of potentially harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens in ships' ballast water became a reality. Treating ballast water Under the order, ships must manage their ballast water so that aquatic organisms and pathogens are removed or rendered harmless before the ballast water is released into a new location; marine protection will help prevent the spread of invasive...

Kongsberg Maritime announces that it has just signed a sizeable contract with Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey to deliver 20 high-performance, future-proof US205FP, and US255FP thruster units for installation on new Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugboats. This contract win is particularly significant as one of the tugs, a 60-ton Bollard Pull (BP) vessel, is the first of a game-changing, next-generation design by the renowned towage company Svitzer and the internationally recognized naval architects Rob...

Acronis, a globally renowned company in cyber protection with dual headquarters in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and Singapore, will be the Official Cyber Protection Partner of the iconic ​​round-the-world sailing competition, The Ocean Race. The partnership will be supported by Ingram Micro Cloud, a global distributor of innovative technology products and services, as the Official #CyberFit Partner, in line with the Acronis #TeamUp programme. Acronis - Official #CyberFit Partner Jan Jaap Jager,...

The globally renowned technology group, Wärtsilä will supply the main and harbour engines for a series of seven new Arctic Shuttle Tanker vessels, which are being built at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) yard, in South Korea. The order, which is valued at more than 100 million Euros, was placed with Wärtsilä, in December 2021. Wärtsilä 31DF dual-fuel engines The vessels will each feature six highly efficient Wärtsilä 31DF dual-fuel main engines, opera...

Globally renowned Tokyo –based classification society, ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of an ammonia-fuelled Panamax bulk carrier, developed by Planning and Design Center for Greener Ships (GSC). Ammonia is expected to be used as decarbonised fuel for ships, since it does not emit CO2 when burned. However, taking adequate safety measures are impartial and cannot be ignored, due to this fuel’s characteristics of being toxic to humans and corrosive aga...

FESCO Transportation Group (FESCO) has organised the delivery of heavy equipment for construction of NPP Akkuyu, in the Republic of Turkey.   Cargo vessel, Viking with eight sets of accumulators of the system for passive inundation of the core, which are one of the most important elements of the NPP safety system, weighing 83 tonnes each and an upper unit with a reactor vessel lid weighing 104 tonnes has arrived from the port of Rostov-on-Don to cargo terminal, Vostochny, in Russia, in...

MBARI – Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, a private non-profit oceanographic research centre based in Moss Landing, California is building a new research vessel at Freire Shipyard in Spain. The R/V David Packard will be a state-of-the-art vessel, 50 metres long and able to accommodate 12 crew and 18 scientists on MBARI’s missions to explore and understand a changing ocean. The basic design of the R/V David Packard was developed by Glosten, with the detailed design develope...

Svitzer, a renowned global towage operator and part of A.P. Moller - Maersk, converts its whole fleet of 10 towage tugs in London, United Kingdom, to be powered by carbon neutral marine biofuel. This enables DP World-owned Unifeeder to reduce its emissions and boost its green agenda. Ecotow towage service Replacing marine fuel oil with the carbon neutral biofuel enables Svitzer to offer a new towage service, called Ecotow, which unlocks approximately 90% CO2 reduction in Scope 3 emissions from...

Vasiliy Golovnin, diesel electric ship of FESCO Transportation Group (‘FESCO’), has left port Cape Town, in the Republic of South Africa, on January 5, 2022 and embarked on a new expedition to Antarctica, carrying cargo for Indian research stations. This is the first voyage within the framework of a new five-year contract concluded between FESCO and the National Center for Polar and Oceanic Research of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of India (NCPOR). Prior to this, FESCO had been su...

In addition to having a COVID requirement for all guests and crew, Viking is also the first and only cruise line to have built full-scale PCR labs on board their ocean and expedition ships. All guests and crew are tested every day and the company’s medical team is able to quickly get the results. Without onboard PCR laboratories, there is no way to screen the samples and determine the results while on the move at sea.&nb...

WE Tech Solutions. Oy, the energy efficiency solutions provider, has received an order to deliver its solution one economical operations to six 174k LNG Carriers for Hyundai LNG Shipping. The vessels are to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. and the equipment delivery from WE Tech to the shipyard will commence in October 2022. The economical operations solution package featured with innovative Direct Drive Permanent Magnet Shaft Generators and WE Drives™ are the benchmarking...

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has taken its first order for LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) fuel gas supply systems (FGSS), for high-pressure dual-fuel marine engines. The company will deliver FGSS to be installed on six (6) LNG-fuelled car carriers, to be built by a group company of Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. LNG fuel gas supply systems (FGSS) The core components of the newly ordered FGSS are LNG fuel tanks, LNG fuel gas supply units and...

Leask Marine announced that the company has recently completed a major offshore decommissioning project in France, on behalf of Hydroquest, to remove their 1 MW turbine from their test site off Paimpol-Bréhat, in Brittany, France. Offshore decommissioning project The offshore decommissioning project entailed project management, engineering, and marine operations, with the engagement of the North Sea Atlantic vessel. In association with Tadek Ltd, the decommissioning & recovery proc...

The technology group Wärtsilä has completed the installation and commissioning of a unique hybrid power system combined with a PV solar energy system in collaboration with Marfin Management and Solbian, onboard a bulk carrier vessel, making it one of the most technologically advanced vessel of its type in the global fleet. The installation was carried out on the M/V Paolo Topic, a bulk carrier built in 2016 at the Onomichi Dockyard in Japan and managed by Marfin Management S.A.M. The...

Leask Marine have completed a 5-month O&M preventative maintenance programme, installing Dynamic Bend Stiffeners (DBS) on cables at the London Array offshore wind farm, in order to help extend the life of their subsea assets. C-Fenna and C-Force vessels The programming saw Leask Marine’s C-Fenna and newly commissioned C-Force, working side-by-side to clean marine growth from existing cable protection systems, before installing the Dynamic Bend Stiffener, using a bespoke installation...

As with the other three cruise vessels in the Havila Kystruten fleet, Havila Capella has been designed by HAV Design AS and deploys integrated, energy-efficient KM solutions, which reflect the company’s commitment to operate the most eco-friendly ships, in a precious environment of outstanding natural beauty. Kongsberg’s Bergen gas engines Kongsberg will deliver to Havila Kystruten, a total of 16 powerful Bergen gas engines, which apply variable turbo geometry, to provide an optima...