An engine room fire aboard the 600-foot long tanker Endo Breeze that resulted in $1.2 million damages was the result of a maintenance error, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The
Stena Estrid, the first of a new generation of Stena Lina E-flexer RoPax vessels has arrived in Holyhead, Wales, following its delivery voyage from the China Merchants Jinling Shipbuilding Weihai Shipyard in
OCTOBER 12, 2018 — Spanish ferry operator Baleària reports that it has been awarded EUR 11.8 million (about $14 million) in EU funding for its planned conversion of five vessels to LNG
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 — The Meyer group’s Neptun shipyard in Rostock, Germany, today launched the first of two “floating engine room” modules for the world’s first LNG fueled cruise ship, AIDAnova. The
MAY 12, 2017—With some 100 gas-fueled vessels in operation and another 100 under construction or on order worldwide, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a marine fuel is expected to be an important
OCTOBER 14, 2016 — Four LNG fueled cruise ships on order for Carnival Corporation at Meyer Werft’s Papenburg, Germany, and Turku, Finland, shipyards will be powered by Caterpillar Marine MaK 16 M
AUGUST 17, 2016 — Caterpillar Marine is establishing a new Marine Center in Singapore in a facility at 5 Tukang Innovation Grove previously occupied by Caterpillar Remanufacturing. It will give Caterpillar Marine’s
MAY 24, 2016 — Engineering specialists at Caterpillar Marine’s new Marine Solutions Center are this month overseeing delivery of the first Cat Marine Hybrid Thruster system. It is being delivered to an
DECEMBER 2, 2014 — Caterpillar Marine reports that MaK diesel electric propulsion (DEP) solutions have been selected to power the four Maersk Supply Services (MSS) subsea support vessel newbuilds ordered at China’s
DECEMBER 1, 2014 — The 6,500 cu.m Anthony Veder LNG/LPG/LEG carrier Coral Anthelia is the commercial marine industry’s first ship to complete an in-hull dual fuel engine retrofit conversion in hull. The
