JUNE 10, 2013 — The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published new guidance for shipowners on how shipping companies and crews can implement an effective safety culture. The new ICS Guidelines
JUNE 10, 2013 — Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) has ordered an additional advanced-capability DP3 ultra-deepwater drillship based on the Samsung GF12000 hull design. The vessel, ENSCO DS-10, will be the eighth Samsung
JUNE 10, 2013 — The Wärtsilä X40 two-stroke engine has successfully passed its Type Approval Test (TAT). The testing was carried out in Zhuhai, China, at Wärtsilä’s licensee Yuchai Marine Power Co.
JUNE 10, 2013 — Great Yarmouth, U.K., headquartered Seajacks International has entered into a contract with South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries to build what it says will be “the world’s largest
JUNE 10, 2013 — Back on March 20, Nordic American Tankers Ltd. (NAT) announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire what it then described as a “a very modern
JUNE 10, 2013 — Genoa, Italy, headquartered classification society RINA has launched new rules for Offshore Support Vessels, new environmental notations covering cargo handling and transhipment operations and a new guide on
JUNE 10, 2013 — Bunker barges able to deliver LNG in the volumes required by large oceangoing ships have been seen as a limiting factor in the development of LNG as a
JUNE 8, 2013—Spanky would have been proud. Over the past dozen years or so, privately held marine transportation company Hughes Brothers, Edison, NJ, has taken over former New York City garbage barges
JUNE 7, 2013 — Wärtsilä has been contracted to retrofit its Wärtsilä Aquarius UV ballast water management system for the Marola, a 37,000 cu.m fully refrigerated Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vessel of
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
