Eco-friendly coal carrier named Ship of the Year
JULY 25, 2013 — Though coal may not be a particularly eco-friendly fuel, that doesn’t mean that the ships that carry it can’t be green. Soyo, an NYK-owned coal carrier, has been
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Senator introduces cruise ship passenger protection bill
JULY 25, 2013 — U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D. WV), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, introduced legislation July 23 that, he said, would improve consumer protections for cruise passengers and close
Hyundai Heavy BWM system gets Coast Guard AMS acceptance
JULY 24, 2013 — Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) reports that its electrolysis-based ballast water treatment system, HiBallast (pictured left), has been accepted as an Alternative Management System (AMS) by the
$10.4 million criminal fine in pollution case
JULY 24, 2013 — Columbia Shipmanagement (Deutschland) GmbH (CSM-D), a German corporation, and Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd. (CSM-CY), a Cypriot company, were yesterday sentenced in in federal court in Newark, N.J., to pay
MAN Diesel & Turbo announces two new giant engines
JULY 2, 2013 — MAN Diesel & Turbo is responding to market developments pushing further optimization of the propulsion efficiency of large containerships. It has announced two significant additions to its engine
MOL Comfort fore part breaks tow
JULY 2, 2013 — Adverse weather continues to beset efforts to salvage the remaining section of MOL Comfort, the five year old containership that broke into two sections June 17. In its
Clean Marine gets EGCS order for shuttle tankers
JUNE 12, 2013 — Nils Høy-Petersen, CEO of Clean Marine AS, Oslo, Norway, says contracts from shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries to supply Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) for two new shuttle tankers
MAN PrimeServ retrofits 20,000th slide fuel-valve
JUNE 7, 2013 — MAN PrimeServ – MAN Diesel & Turbo’s service division – recently retrofitted its 20,000th slide fuel-valve. Introduced at the turn of the millennium, slide fuel-valves improve the low-load
ICS Chairman spells out costs of green legislation
JUNE 4, 2013 — Impending new legislation to protect the environment potentially presents shipping with an additional industry-wide cost of more than half a trillion US dollars between 2015 and 2025. This
Dual fuel fast RO/RO starts sea trials
JUNE 3, 2013 — The world’s first dual fuel fast RO/RO ferry, Lopez Mena (Incat hull 069), has begun sea trials in Hobart, Tasmania. The 99 m vessel’s twin LNG tanks were