Opinion: After 20 years, underwater cleaning is back. Just make sure your coating is washable.
By Boud Van Rompay, CEO of Hydrex and Subsea Industries Underwater hull cleaning promises to give ship owners lower fuel…
Norwegian Breakaway maintenance completed in Brest
Damen Shiprepair Brest has completed a maintenance programme on cruise ship Norwegian Breakaway. The 326-metre, 146,000 DWT, cruise ship Norwegian…
Grease-free bearings reduce costs on line-haul boat
The grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings Thordon supplied and installed to a Mississippi River line haul boat recently have helped reduce the…
Golden Gate Ferry gets washable hull
Subsea Industries’ Ecospeed coating has been applied to Golden Gate Ferry’s M.S. Marin, an aluminum-hulled 750-passenger capacity Spaulding class ferry,…
Zero-emission fuel cell power plant in development
ABB and Ballard Power Systems, provider of innovative clean energy fuel cell solutions, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on…
Grimaldi adopt Alfa Laval scrubber connectivity on ACL ships
The Grimaldi Group, a long-time Alfa Laval PureSOx customer, has signed an agreement for PureSOx connectivity services on five vessels…
New whitepaper highlights Metalock benefits
A damaged main engine cylinder casing has now been returned to service in Bulgaria, after a repair operation lasting just…
Bolidt gain ground on polar cruise decks
Bolidt report their synthetic systems for decking and flooring have been attracting new business in the polar expedition cruise ship…
Singapore chooses BWT testing system
French water microbiology expert aqua-tools has won a tender to supply Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) with its B-QUA…
Floating hotel safety enhanced with digital technology
ABB has won a contract to supply an innovative ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System – OCTOPUS marine software for one…
Grease-free bearings reduce costs on line-haul boat
The grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings Thordon supplied and installed to a Mississippi River line haul boat recently have helped reduce the…
Golden Gate Ferry gets washable hull
Subsea Industries’ Ecospeed coating has been applied to Golden Gate Ferry’s M.S. Marin, an aluminum-hulled 750-passenger capacity Spaulding class ferry,…
Zero-emission fuel cell power plant in development
ABB and Ballard Power Systems, provider of innovative clean energy fuel cell solutions, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on…
Grimaldi adopt Alfa Laval scrubber connectivity on ACL ships
The Grimaldi Group, a long-time Alfa Laval PureSOx customer, has signed an agreement for PureSOx connectivity services on five vessels…
New whitepaper highlights Metalock benefits
A damaged main engine cylinder casing has now been returned to service in Bulgaria, after a repair operation lasting just…
Bolidt gain ground on polar cruise decks
Bolidt report their synthetic systems for decking and flooring have been attracting new business in the polar expedition cruise ship…
Singapore chooses BWT testing system
French water microbiology expert aqua-tools has won a tender to supply Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) with its B-QUA…
Floating hotel safety enhanced with digital technology
ABB has won a contract to supply an innovative ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System – OCTOPUS marine software for one…
Opinion: Preparing for the 2020 Sulphur Cap
Opening Keynote Address on Day 2 of the 2020 Sulphur Cap Conference, Amsterdam, by Don Gregory, Director of the EGCSA…
Opinion: Going green can save the green
Picture: Craig Carter of Thorn Bearings Thordon Bearings are presenting a paper emphasising how the adoption of green technologies can…
Opinion: Coating over a coating problem
Subsea Industries’ NACE coatings inspector Manuel Hof explains why shipowners can no longer afford to gloss over the marine environment…
Opinion: Dinosaurs make way for the future
Keynote speech delivered by Frank J Coles, Transas CEO at the Transas Global Conference in Vancouver Vancouver – 08 March…
Foreship counsels caution on expedition ship rush
Booming demand for expedition ships should not mean that good and safe shipbuilding practices for passenger vessels are compromised, leading…
Guest Editorial: Will the implementation of the Sulphur Cap 2020 be delayed?
by Mr. Kim Yeon-tae, Executive Director, Korean Register Two of the most discussed issues in the international maritime industry in…
Opinion: Lack of due diligence now could prove an expensive mistake in the future
from Andrew Marshall, Coldharbour Chief Executive Many ship operators require a far better understanding of ballast water treatment technologiesand their…
Guest editorial: Using ultrasonics to make safe ships
By Dr. Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter, CEO of Coltraco Ultrasonics The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) have recently investigated the cause of…
New rules drive essential work in Gibdock’s direction
The need for ship owners to comply with new rules on environmental responsibility should not disguise the fact that choosing…
Refit for jack-up MPI Enterprise in Rotterdam
Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) has completed a refit project on the MPI Enterprise, a 120-metre, self-elevating, DP2, wind turbine installation…
Newport shipping add Singapore, Indonesia, China facilities
UK-headquartered Newport Shipping has added to its global network of ship repair yards with facilities in Singapore, Indonesia and China,…
Alexis Marine to retrofit salt lugger bearings
Louisiana-based workboat operator Alexis Marine has awarded a supply contract to Thordon Bearings for the retrofitting of 6in diameter RiverTough…
Conversion preparations for Europe’s first LNG dredger get underway
Work has begun at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque on the conversion of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Samuel de Champlain…
Two floating docks arrive at Damen Shiprepair Curaçao
Following a 26-day voyage across the North Atlantic, two floating docks have arrived at Damen Shiprepair Curaçao (DSCu) in the…
A&P Yard welcomes Captain Cook replica ship
A&P Group, the global ship repair, conversion and specialist has welcomed HM Bark Endeavour as it has arrived at A&P…
Major fabrication boost for Southampton
Marine engineering services firm SMS is midway through a significant contract for Woods’ Silver Fleet to build three huge pontoons…
