Environment

MAY 8, 2013 — Middleburg Heights, Ohio, based Great Lakes operator The Interlake Steamship Company has reached an agreement in principle with Shell to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG)  to support Interlake's conversion of its vessels to LNG as the main propulsion fuel. Originally built in 1952, Kaye E. Baker ...

APRIL 24, 2013 — Design Alaska, a Fairbanks-based architecture, engineering, and surveying firm; and Art Anderson Associates, its naval architecture subconsultant, were recently awarded a contract for the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) to investigate potential energy efficiency improvements. The contract, driven by new International Maritime Org ...

APRIL 19, 2013—Following up on the full scale demonstration of the ME-GI on April 17, Japan's Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. hosted a group that included ship owners, operators, and naval architects for a first-hand overhaul inspection of the engine at its Tamano Works facility. The inspection tour gave guests an oppo ...

FEBRUARY 11, 2013 — Drammen, Norway, based OceanSaver says it "is ripping up the rulebook of the ballast water treatment (BWT) industry to give shipyards and shipowners something that is truly unique for the sector – total certainty in an increasingly uncertain world." For 10 percent of the cost of its BWT system, OceanSa ...

FEBRUARY 8, 2013 — Nørresundby, Denmark, headquartered DESMI Ocean Guard A/S says that A.P. Møller – Maersk has tested its containerized solution for ballast water treatment and has concluded that it is a very attractive solution, particularly for container vessel retrofits. Per Hother Rasmussen of Maersk Maritime Technology explains: "We have tested containeriz ...

FEBRUARY 5, 2013 — For the Washington State Department of Transportation it boils down to the bottom line. "Washington State Ferries burns more than 17 million gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel each year – and it's our fastest growing operating expense," says Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Assistant Secretary Da ...

FEBRUARY 5, 2013 — A comprehensive report released today has defined the modal and environmental advantages of using marine shipping to transport goods in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway region. The study, entitled "The Environmental and Social Impacts of Marine Transport in the Great ...

JANUARY 30, 2013 — GE Marine has signed an agreement with Echogen Power Systems, Akron, Ohio, to be the exclusive provider of Echogen's exhaust heat recovery system for use on commercial and military marine vessels worldwide. Echogen's product enhances GE Marine's mechanical, hybrid and all-electric propulsion system solutions ...