Telemedicine service puts a virtual ER aboard ship

MARCH 14, 2014 — Health management services provider Future Care, Inc. has formed a strategic alliance with maritime communications solutions provider Globecomm Maritime, to offer a video-enabled telemedicine solution to the maritime

Wind farm support vessel is Volvo Penta IPS equipped

MARCH 13, 2014 — CTruk Boats Ltd., Brightlingsea, Essex, England, CTruk has delivered its first Volvo Penta IPS-equipped workboat to tender services and crewboat charter company Sima Charters of the Netherlands. According

Rand Logistics completes $212.5 million refinancing

MARCH 13, 2014 — Great Lakes bulk vessel operator Rand Logistics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLOG) reports it has completed a $212.5 million financing comprised of a $140.0 million senior secured credit facility and

HFO set to remain dominant marine fuel

MARCH 13, 2014 — Research from Lloyd’s Register and University College London’s Energy Institute on the future energy mix in shipping indicates that, by 2030, in all scenarios heavy fuel oil remains

ClassNK classes its first U.S.-flag ship

MARCH 13, 2014 — Classification society ClassNK has classed its first United States-flagged ship. The vessel is the MT SLNC PAX (ex Bomar Eris, ex Ruth Theresa). Owned by Schuyler Line Navigation

Toisa MOCV to have Siemens drive and power solutions

MARCH 13, 2014 — The Ulstein X-bowed multipurpose offshore construction vessel (MOCV) that Hyundai Heavy Industries is building at its Ulsan, South Korea shipyard for Toisa Ltd (see earlier story) will have

Lipski named Ingalls Shipbuilding VP of business development

MARCH 12, 2014 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has announced that Mike Lipski will be the company’s vice president of business development, effective April 1. Mr. Lipski will be

NASSCO delivers MLP2, gets $128 million more for MLP3

MARCH 12, 2014 — General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO), San Diego, CA, today delivered the USNS John Glenn (MLP 2), the second ship of the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP)

Color Line ferry set for scrubber installation at FaYard

MARCH 12, 2014 — Color Line’s high speed ferry Superspeed 2 is set to enter Denmark’s FaYard shipyard later this month for what will be the first installation of Wärtsilä’s new inline

Rolls-Royce opens new training center in Brazil

MARCH 12, 2014 — Rolls-Royce has opened a new training center to cater for customers operating vessels with Rolls-Royce systems in Brazil’s deep water oil and gas fields. The center is located

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