Compact LNG fuel tank solution completes test phase

MARCH 7, 2018 — Responding to a need created by the rise in the use of LNG as a marine fuel, Paris headquartered GTT reports that it has completed the test phase

MOL upgrades car carrier stowage planning system

MARCH 7, 2018 — Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) has introduced an upgraded version of its MOL-CAPS stowage planning system for car carriers. Introduced in 1999, the system generates a voyage-by-voyage stowage

USCG responds to sunken towing vessel

MARCH 7, 2018 — The Coast Guard yesterday responded to a report of a sunken towing vessel at mile marker 832 of Everett Lake near Dyersburg, Tennessee. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector

Four crew missing in major fire on giant Maersk containership

MARCH 7, 2018 — Four crew members are missing after the 15,262 TEU containership Maersk Honan caught fire in the Arabian Sea during a voyage from Singapore to Suez at around 1520

Vard to build two more expedition cruise ships for Ponant

MARCH 7, 2018 — French cruise company Ponant has added two more luxury expedition cruise ships to the four it already has on order at Vard. They will be identical to their

Navy and USCG release polar icebreaker RFP

MARCH 6, 2017 — The U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under an integrated program office (IPO), released a request for proposal (RFP) March 2 for the advance procurement

Viking Ocean to build up to six more ships at Fincantieri

Viking Ocean Cruises has reached a new agreement with Fincantieri that could see the delivery of six additional cruise ships ships by 2027. Fincantieri says the understanding for the new ships, whose

R-R calls new situational awareness system a “game changer”

MARCH 6, 2018 — Rolls-Royce has unveiled a situational awareness system that uses multiple sensors and intelligent software to help navigators deal with the safety risks they face when operating vessels at

New Ice Class designs from OSD target arctic development support

MARCH 6, 2018 — IJmuiden, Netherlands, headquartered Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) has unveiled a new series of Ice Class vessel designs suited for marine services related to the development of new arctic

Alfa Laval adds connectivity to PureSOx

MARCH 6, 2018 — Alfa Laval is launching a new connectivity program for its PureSOx exhaust gas scrubbers. It says that the solution promises both simplicity and even greater reliability in SOx

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