ABB AND WALLENIUS COOPERATE IN FLEET SUPPORT CENTRE
ABB and shipping company Wallenius Marine have opened the doors of the first Oversea Fleet Support Centre, said to offer a major milestone in their collaborative strategy to help shipping companies improve environmental, technical and voyage performance. One of the...
ALFA LAVAL AND WinGD PARTNER IN AMMONIA FUEL DEVELOPMENT
Alfa Laval and Swiss engine designer WinGD have established a partnership in which Alfa Laval will deliver two fuel supply systems (FSS) for testing WinGD’s ammonia-fuelled engine in early 2024. The partnership is considered a significant step forward in the...
CII DATA REPORTS TAILORED FOR VARIED FLEET SIZES
Environmental-focused digital maritime platform RightShip is launching three new subscription tiers to its data and services for owners and managers: RightFleet Starter, RightFleet Lite, and RightFleet Enterprise. This new tiered model ensures that ship owners and...
NEW STORAGE FACILITY WILL HELP PROMOTE ONBOARD CCS
Value Carbon, a sister company of Filtree exhaust gas cleaning company Value Maritime, and Evos, an independent liquid bulk storage provider, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI), to build two 2,000 m3 storage tanks for absorption liquids to accommodate Value Carbon’s...
BERG PROPULSION BOOSTS FUEL EFFICIENCY FOR COASTAL FLEET
Swedish shipowner Erik Thun Group has selected Berg Propulsion’s Dynamic Drive technology to optimise efficiency on board all 10 of its latest newbuildings, following successful pilot installations which exceeded energy efficiency gain expectations. On trials, the...
EU ETS WILL ‘COST THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY BILLIONS’ – ITIC
International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has forecasted that the cost of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to the shipping industry could be in the billions. The extended EU ETS, which comes into force on 1 January 2024, will set an annual...
MAN MAIN ENGINES AND GENSETS FOR FUEL-EFFICENT FRIGATES
Damen Shipyards Group company Damen Naval, based in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, has contracted MAN Energy Solutions to supply the propulsion engines and gensets for four newbuilding Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Frigates. The order consists of eight MAN 20V28/33D STC...
DELTAMARIN TO ENGINEER NEXT-GENERATION PCTCs FOR WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN
Deltamarin of Finland has signed a design contract with China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Jiangsu) for the design and engineering of Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s next-generation Pure Car and Truck Carriers (PCTCs). The contract includes the complete basic and detail design...