Leading French ferry operator, Brittany Ferries, and shipbuilder, STX France, are embarking on a joint project to develop a new generation of environmentally-friendly passenger ferries. Powered by dual fuel engines that will
Signet Maritime Corporation is the first ASD tug owner to install Cat C175 ACERT 16-cylinder main propulsion diesel engines. Rated at 3,417 BHP each, the engines are being installed in two support/escort
Classification society Bureau Veritas and COPPE/UFRJ, the ocean engineering department of Brazil’s Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, are to set up a joint development center. The move is intended to speed
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has lost none of his enthusiasm for alternative fuels, despite publication of a Rand Corporation study that sees no military benefits in switching to new fuels.
Singapore’s Sembawang Shipyard, a unit of Sembcorp Marine, has received a S$123 million (US$95.5 million) contract from Teekay Shipping (Australia) Pty Ltd for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) of a
Kenneth Hvid, has been appointed Executive VP and Chief Strategy Officer at Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK ), effective April 1. He will be located in Vancouver, Canada and will be succeeding Peter Evensen,
Drydocks World Dubai has been awarded a $13 million FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) conversion contract by BW Offshore. The vessel involved, the BW Carmen, which has been renamed BW Athena,
Wärtsilä is cooperating with Ship Architects, Inc., Daphne, Ala., to bring natural gas fueled propulsion to America’s waterways. The companies have together developed a new concept of towboat design that employs Wärtsilä
Norway’s Eidesvik Offshore has exercised a NOK 440 million ($71.2 million) option to build a second LNG fueled PSV at Kleven Maritime. Scheduled for delivery from Kleven’s Ulsteinvik shipyard in 2012, the
Rolls-Royce has signed a collaboration agreement with China’s Shanghai Bestway Marine Engineering Design Company Ltd (Bestway), a leading marine design and research company in China. The collaboration will focus upon development of
