Wartsila to design advanced dive support vessel

FEBRUARY 17, 2016 — Wärtsilä has signed a contract with Shanghai Bestway Marine Engineering Design Co Ltd to design a new type of deep water dive support vessel. The ship is to

Arbitration Tribunal finds for Algoma in shipbuilding case

FEBRUARY 17, 2014 — St. Catharines, ON, based Algoma Central Corporation reports that the London, U.K.,  Arbitration Tribunal hearing a contract dispute involving three shipbuilding contracts between Algoma and Nantong Mingde Heavy

Ovation of the Seas set for float out

FEBRUARY 16, 2016 — Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas is set to be floated out of covered building dock at Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany, on Thursday, February 18, after only 18

Thrustmaster expands waterways service locations

FEBRUARY 16, 2016—With more and more towboat operators seriously considering incorporating Z-drive propulsion, Thrustmaster of Texas, Houston, TX, has signed a service agreement with McGinnis Inc. – National Maintenance & Repair that

World’s largest ethane carriers to be ME-GI powered

FEBRUARY 16, 2016 — Five 85,000 cu.m Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) will each be powered by  a single MAN B&W 6G60ME-GI main engine. The vessels have been ordered for UEC (United

Cummins expands Tier 3 compliant generator line

FEBRUARY 16, 2016—Marine diesel engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. has expanded its EPA Tier 3-certified marine product line with the addition of the 55-kW MDDCM, a new Onan marine U.S. generator.  Designed for

NSK Ship Design develops LNG fueled fish feeder design

FEBRUARY 16, 2016 — Harstad, Norway, based NSK Ship Design has developed a design for an 81.5 m x 16.5 m LNG fueled fish farm feeder vessel for Nordnorsk Shipping. NSK Ship

Panama Canal lock sill reinforcement passes test

FEBRUARY 15, 2016 — The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) says that Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the consortium responsible for the design and construction of the Third Set of Locks Project,

SUNY Maritime to get additional EOP funding

FEBRUARY 15, 2016 — State University of New York Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, NY,  is to receive more than $55,000  to expand a program designed to give economically and academically disadvantaged students

ABS centralizes global marine activities

FEBRUARY 15, 2016 — Classification society ABS has centralized its global Marine strategic planning, client development, and product and service offerings and has promoted Dr. Kirsi Tikka is to the new role

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