DECEMBER 4, 2013 — Wärtsilä has launched a new two-speed marine gearbox designed for vessels that have multiple operational modes or reduced transit speed, including among others RoPax ferries, offshore support vessels,
DECEMBER 4, 2013 — Classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) reports that at end November its register topped 220 million gross tons for the first time at the end of November 2013.
DECEMBER 3, 2013 — Robert Bugbee led Scorpio Tankers Inc. (NYSE: STNG) and Scorpio Bulkers Inc. (OSLO-OTC: SALT) are continuing their buying binges, splashing out more than $1 billion on vessel acquisitions
DECEMBER 3, 2013 — Australia’s Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd has signed a contract with Japanese ferry operator Sado Kisen for the construction of an 85 m wave piercing catamaran for operation on
DECEMBER 3, 2013 — Hyde Marine, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC), has introduced the Hyde Guardian Gold ballast water treatment system (BWTS) which, it says, offers
DECEMBER 3, 2013 — Rolls-Royce is to provide design and integrated equipment packages for two UT 771 WP platform supply vessels to be built by China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group Co. Ltd. The
DECEMBER 3, 2013 — Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the extended engineering scope for the initial, basic, and production designs of the two LNG-fueled container RoRo ships ordered from
DECEMBER 3, 2013 — Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the extended engineering scope for the initial, basic, and production designs of the two LNG-fueled container RoRo ships ordered from
DECEMBER 3, 2013 — India’s Great Eastern Shipping Company (GESCO) has signed a contract with MAN Diesel & Turbo’s PrimeServ that will see a 105,000 dwt crude tanker built in 2004 retrofitted
DECEMBER 2, 2013 — Here’s an incident that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “taking the ferry.” It was a morning of adventure on the high seas yesterday for Seattle