DECEMBER 6, 2016 — Classification society ABS has published the ABS Guidance Notes on Structural Monitoring Using Acoustic Emissions. The guidance presents best practices for planning and executing Acoustic Emission Testing (AET).
DECEMBER 6, 2016 — OMERS Private Equity (“OPE”), part of OMERS Private Markets, says that it has agreed to sell ship manager V.Group to another private equity firm, Advent International OPE will
DECEMBER 6, 2016 — A Simon Møkster Shipping AS platform supply vessel, M/V Stril Polar, is the first Norwegian vessel to comply with new IMO Polar Code, receiving the first polar ship
DECEMBER 5, 2016 — Royal IHC launched the world’s first LNG fueled trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) in a December 3 ceremony at its Kinderdijk shipyard in the Netherlands. Built for DEME,
DECEMBER 5, 2016 — Sweden’s Dellner Brakes AB used last week’s International Workboat show to introduce its portfolio of technologically advanced braking solutions to the U.S. marine market, including the world’s first
DECEMBER 3, 2016 — Another hefty prison sentence has been handed down in the bribery case known in Navy circles as the “Fat Leonard affair.” Former supervisory contracting officer Paul Simpkins, 62,
DECEMBER 2, 2016 — Wärtsilä EnergoProFin is now available for controllable pitch propellers (CPP) as well as fixed pitch propellers (FPP). The specially designed propeller cap has hydrofoil-section fins on the downstream
DECEMBER 2, 2016 —Tanker company Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (NYSE: OSG) says that it has completed the previously announced separation of OSG into two independent, publicly traded companies: Overseas Shipholding Group and
DECEMBER 2, 2016 — Testimony given yesterday at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee underscored continuing differences of opinion on the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Some of the sharpest
DECEMBER 2, 2016 — Rolls-Royce yesterday announced what it called “plans to accelerate the transformation of its marine business as a result of continuing weakness in the maritime market.” Among other things,