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The international trade association for the ferry industry, Interferry, claims that ferry operators in northern Europe face a "near-impossible" choice in trying to meet the 2015 deadline for ultra-low sulfur emissions from bunker fuel. It also says that the low-sulfur legislation will " percentprompt an environmentally damaging modal shift from short-sea to overland tr ...

Kvichak Marine Industries, Seattle, Wash., has recently been awarded a contract to build two 50 ft x 15.5 ft pilot vessels for the Crescent River Port Pilots (CRPPA) of Louisiana. The Crescent River Port Pilots operate on the Mississippi River between Pilot Town and New Orleans, La.Designed by Kvichak Marine, the all-aluminum vessels will be powered by twin Detroi ...

Bergen, Norway, headquartered NorWind Installer has contracted Ulstein's Dutch design offices, Ulstein Sea of Solutions, and Ulstein IDEA Equipment Solutions as its design partners for a new foundation installation vessel for the offshore wind industry. The vessel is a customized version of the Deepwater Enabler design from Ulstein.The DP vessel is designed f ...

Offshore Ship Designers has been contracted to develop the design of a low-emission diesel-electric harbor tug for Iskes Towage & Salvage. Both companies are based in IJmuiden in The Netherlands. Iskes has ordered two of the vessels from Damen Shipyards. They will be built at the Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld.The 32-m LOA tug will have a bollard pull of 70 tonne ...

Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, reports that it has received final test approval from the Korean government for its eco-friendly  HiBallast System. Hyundai Heavy Industries' HiBallast ballast water treatment system treats seawater by filtering and sterilizing bacteria and plankton bigger than 50 microns using electrolysis. The HiBallast sys ...

Thanksgiving weekend festivities at Bollinger Marine Fabricators, LLC, Amelia, LA, included the launch of the Ocean Wave, the first of four Ocean Class Tugs for Crowley Maritime Corporation, Jacksonville, FL. The photo below shows the Ocean Wave and sister tug Ocean Wind moving down the erection lane onto the the dry-dock at Bollinger� ...

Former Drydocks World Southeast Asia CEO Denis Welch is joining IHC Merwede as its new CEO for Southeast Asia. Mr. Welch, who left Drydocks World in 2010 to set up a consultancy,  be responsible for helping IHC Merwedeto reinforce its regional identity and expand its Asian-centered operations – which are focussed on its offshore and marine activities.  IH ...

ABB says that modifications to the design of its Azipod podded propulsion system have improved hydrodynamic efficiency by more than 2 percentThe modifications include a newly optimized Azipod fin shape and a new pod cap structure, called the X-tail. The revised fin structure receives water flow from the propeller at a new, less acute angle, and its new curve ...

Marking a major breakthrough for commercial shipping and LNG fuel technology, the product tanker Bit Viking returned to service along the Norwegian coast as the first vessel to undergo conversion from heavy fuel oil to dual fuel operation. The conversion makes the ship one of the most environmentally friendly tankers in the world and ...

B+H Ocean Carriers Ltd (NYSE AMEX: BHO) reports that at the Annual General Meeting of Stockholders, held at BHO's offices in Hamilton, Bermuda on November 22, 2011, its shareholders approved a proposed reverse stock split. BHO has set November 28, 2011 as the effective date for the reverse/forward stock split.BHO says that it continues to pursue reductions to the costs of oper ...