HFW Helps BIMCO To Draft Industry’s First Offshore Decommissioning Contract

Wärtsilä said that the systems have been ordered for ships being built at yards in China, including a RoRo ferry, two RoPax, six tankers, and four container vessels. Ship owners are also increasingly requesting quotations for their existing sailing fleet, the company added. The demand for BWMSs is rising as owners work to make their…

The 45,000 m3 LNG vessel for Saga LNG shipping, built at China Merchants Heavy Industry, is getting more and more finalized. It has a patented LNG tank system named LNT A-BOX, developed by LNG New Technologies. This new type A tank is offering cost effective design and easy fabrication enabling new yards to enter the…

Four Boluda Towage and Salvage tugboats were tasked by the Cadiz Pilotage Corporation to participate in the exit maneuvers of the Spanish Navy training ship the Juan Sebastián de Elcano and its two escort vessels the Infanta Elena and Tofiño. This is the ship’s ninety-first training cruise, setting sail this week from the port of…

The technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide the ship design for a state-of-the-art factory fishing trawler. The vessel will be unique in having the combined capabilities of twin trawling for many different fish species, having both conventional winching as well as pumping systems for bringing the catch onboard, and being able to process…

Iceland’s New Scrubber Rule Fails To Address Spill Risks Or Black Carbon Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Iceland’s Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources issued a regulation that restricts exhaust emissions that have a large of sulphur due to burning by ships in the territorial waters of Iceland. This new rule was welcomed by the Iceland…

Transas, a Wärtsilä company, has signed a landmark contract to supply a Fleet Operations Solution (FOS) to Wilson ASA, the Norway-based fleet operator. The FOS creates an infrastructure that includes onboard navigational and communication components to provide enhanced connectivity for business communications and crew services, and access to fleet data from shore-based locations for complete…