Wärtsilä to cut 600 jobs
JULY 17, 2015 — Wärtsilä is to cut some 600 jobs, about 160 of them in Finland, at its Ship Power business, which it has now renamed Marine Solutions. The job cuts
JULY 17, 2015 — Wärtsilä is to cut some 600 jobs, about 160 of them in Finland, at its Ship Power business, which it has now renamed Marine Solutions. The job cuts
JULY 16, 2015 — Carnival Corporation’s Cunard brand reports that its flag ship cruise liner Queen Mary 2 will undergo an extensive 25 day dry dock refurbishment at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in
JULY 16, 2015 — Your refrigerator and home heating system can be linked to the “Internet of Things,” so why not a ship? South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries, and global
JULY 16, 2015 — Shipowners Claims Bureau, Inc., which manages international P&I insurer the American Club, reports that Dorothea Ioannou, Managing Director of SCB (Hellas) Inc., has taken on the additional the
JULY 16, 2015 — Mike Coomber, Managing Director of Redhill, U.K., headquartered Rivertrace Engineering warns that new regulations on the carriage of biofuels could limit the trading flexibility of product tankers from
ULY 15, 2015 — The U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published a report on a November 30, 2014 incident involving the grounding of the 6,190 gt U.K. flag general cargo vessel
JULY 15, 2015 — Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine (SCM) has entered into an Engineering and Construction contract worth approximately US$1 billion with Heerema Offshore Services B.V. (HOS) to build a new DP3 semi-submersible
JULY 15, 2015 — The first in a series of 20,600 TEU “mega-class” containerships being built for French shipowner CMA CGM will be powered by the Wärtsilä X92, low-speed, two-stroke engine. The
JULY 15, 2015 — Signal International LLC and four affiliates filed for Chapter 11 protection July 12 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. In a declaration filed with
JULY 14, 2015 —Thrustmaster of Texas has been building brown water propulsion equipment for over 30 years and that experience is reflected in its American-made Z-Drive thrusters for inland waterways towboats, the