Stena to operate 1,500 passenger ferry on methanol
NOVEMBER 19, 2014 — One of the world’s biggest ferry companies, Sweden’s Stena Line, says it is to become the first operator in the world to run a large 1,500 passenger ferry
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AEP towboat to be converted to hybrid vessel
NOVEMBER 16, 2014—The U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd) recently announced the award of a $450,000 grant to AEP River Operations, St. Louis, MO, to convert the 8,000 hp towboat Christopher M. Parsonage into
EPA provides funding for tugboat repower
NOVEMBER 13, 2014 — The U.S. EPA has awarded $495,000 to fund two marine repower projects in the state of Massachusetts. CLF Ventures, Inc. has received $300,000 to repower the tugboat Navigator,
Wärtsilä gets 54 engine order for Yamal LNG ships
NOVEMBER 10, 2014 — South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has ordered a total of 54 Wärtsilä dual fuel engines to power icebreaking LNG carriers for the Yamal LNG project
VT Halter cuts steel for first Crowley LNG fueled ConRO
OCTOBER 23, 2014 — VT Halter Marine, Inc. today officially began construction on the first of two LNG-fueled Commitment class ConRo ships Crowley Maritime Corporation’s liner services group with the first steel
Engine placed in first LNG fueled containership
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 — Late last month, engineers at General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard placed the world’s first dual-fuel slow speed engine into the world’s first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fueled containership. The
MTU and Fairplay Towage test genset with SCR
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 — Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG says that its MTU brand and Fairplay Towage are to test an MTU diesel genset with SCR exhaust after treatment in a harbor tug
First containership order for Wärtsilä DF two-stroke
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 — The first containerships to use Wärtsilä’s two-stroke, low pressure, dual-fuel technology will be a series of new 1,400 TEU Baltic feeder vessels being built for GNS Shipping GmbH
Ecoships unveils new eco-friendly bulker design
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 — Ecoships, the technical ship management arm of London-headquartered Newport Shipping Group, has introduced the Greenlotus 32, a next generation bulk carrier design developed to set the standard in
Hartmann unveils eco-friendly ethylene carrier
AUGUST 23, 2014 — Leer, Germany, headquartered ship operator Hartmann Reederei has released more details of the three Eco Star 36K design 36,000 cu.m LEGCs (Liquefied Ethylene Gas Carriers) ordered earlier this