JULY 18, 2018 —Continuing its fleet expansion, Stena Line, Gothenburg, Sweden, recently exercised its option to build two more 239.7m x 27.8m Roll-On/Roll-Off passenger (ROPAX) ships —the seventh and eighth in the
JULY 11, 2018 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engine its Tier 3 certification for diesel mode operation, when installed together with the Wärtsilä NOx
JULY 6, 2018 — Damen Shipyards is to build five fully-electric ferries for operation in Copenhagen. They are being built under a contract awarded by multinational public transportation company Arriva Danmark, which
JULY 5, 2018 — Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) has booked an order for its 100th X-DF engine. It comes just five years after the launch of the engine. GasLog Ltd, an
JULY 2, 2018 — Classification society DNV GL has awarded Sandia National Laboratories an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a new “Zero V” research vessel developed in collaboration with
JUNE 28, 2018 — One of the world’s largest vessel charterers, agribusiness giant Cargill, has launched the “CO2 Challenge.” Its aim is to find and scale new technologies capable of reducing a
JUNE 25, 2018 — Vard has won a Norwegian Defense Materiel Agency (NDMA) contract for the construction of three coast guard vessels. It says that the value of the contract exceeds NOK
JUNE 22, 2018 — The American Bureau of Shipping has published the ABS Guide for Direct Current (DC) Power Distribution Systems for Marine and Offshore Applications (DC Power Guide), developed to support
JUNE 19, 2018 — ABB has signed a contract with India’s Cochin Shipyard to deliver integrated power and automation packages for two new 1,200 passenger ferries ordered by the Andaman & Nicobar
JUNE 15, 2018 — DNV GL has developed the first type approval scheme for the use of aluminum cables and connectors onboard vessels. The new type approvals allow expensive copper to be
