Total & MOL Charter First LNG Bunker Vessel To Operate In France

Total & MOL Charter First LNG Bunker Vessel To Operate In France

A long term charter has been signed by Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions (TMFGS) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) for the second large LNG bunker vessel which is scheduled to be delivered in 2021 and will be situated in the Marseille-Fos area, France. Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China will construct the bunker vessel. The length…

NYK Joins DecarbonICE Project Transforming Exhaust CO2 Into Dry Ice

NYK Joins DecarbonICE Project Transforming Exhaust CO2 Into Dry Ice

The international DecarbonICE project will be joined by NYK. Under this project a feasibility study will be conducted in order to capture the carbon onboard as dry ice and store it in seafloor sediments. For the achievement of the target of IMO to reduce the emission of CO2 to 50% by 2050, the maritime industry…

IRClass & Shipparts.com Ink Cooperation Agreement To Promote Indian Equipment Suppliers

IRClass & Shipparts.com Ink Cooperation Agreement To Promote Indian Equipment Suppliers

A cooperation agreement has been signed by the Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) and ShipParts.com for the development of business opportunities that benefit both the companies in the Indian and international maritime industries. According to the cooperation agreement that was signed at the Marintec 2019 trade show today in Pudong, Shanghai, the Indian equipment suppliers…

Alfa Laval Pureballast 3 Matches Differentiated Ballasting/Deballasting Flows

Alfa Laval Pureballast 3 Matches Differentiated Ballasting/Deballasting Flows

Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 bulker-fit configuration can be used by Bulk carriers that is particularly used to their flow needs. Though the bulker-fit configuration provides savings in footprint, installation, OPEX and particularly CAPEX, yet it does not compromise the high performance, easy operation and global service coverage PureBallast 3 is known for. A large number…

Maritime Union Issues Criminalisation Caution Over IMO 2020

Maritime Union Issues Criminalisation Caution Over IMO 2020

Nautilus International, maritime professionals’ union have issued a warning of a probable new seafarer criminalisation after the enforcement of the new global restrictions on the emission of Sulphur in shipping from the 1st of January 2020. The members have told the Union that a lot of seafarers are very alarmed because of the probability of…

Wärtsilä Solutions To Make New State-Of-The-Art Vessels Super-Efficient

Wärtsilä Solutions To Make New State-Of-The-Art Vessels Super-Efficient

Wärtsilä is to supply solutions for the two new state-of-the-art vessels that are being built for Spliethoff which is a Netherlands-based shipping company. The ships are being built at the Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding yard, China. Wärtsilä received this order in November 2019. The two DP2-B-type ships are so designed to accommodate a multi-purpose vessel with…

WinGD Debuts Engines In New Short-Stroke Version To Address Space Constraints & Speeds

WinGD Debuts Engines In New Short-Stroke Version To Address Space Constraints & Speeds

Four new short strike engines have been launched by WinGD (Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd). This will be effective for economic engine speeds and will help overcome space restrictions on various types of ships. The range that starts with the X52-S2.0 and X62-S2.0 and their dual-fuel counterparts X52DF-S1.0 and X62DF-S1.0 are equipped with a short…

CargoSphere To Distribute Digital LCL Rates In Collaboration With CaroTrans

CargoSphere To Distribute Digital LCL Rates In Collaboration With CaroTrans

CargoSphere announced about it’s collaboration with CaroTrans to allow the global NVOCC (non-vessel operating common carrier) and ocean freight consolidator the distribution of digital LCL (less than containerload) import and export rates on CargoSphere. The integration of the new API makes the data stream completely automatic and eliminates time-consuming and hard manual labor required in…

Damen And VSTEP Simulation To Establish Simulation Research Laboratory

Damen And VSTEP Simulation To Establish Simulation Research Laboratory

The joined force of Damen Shipyards Group and VSTEP Simulation will develop a laboratory to bring out new simulation solutions. The collaboration aims to establish a software that will help expand the abilities of the present NAUTIS Maritime Simulation of VSTEP making it applicable in engineering and thus, opening ways for research and development for…

Wärtsilä And Silverstream To Collaborate On Accelerating Deployment Of Air Lubrication Technology

Wärtsilä And Silverstream To Collaborate On Accelerating Deployment Of Air Lubrication Technology

A Licence and Co-operation Agreement will be signed by Wärtsilä which is a leading technology group and Silverstream Technologies, one of the major air lubrication solution provider for future sales and servicing of the Silverstream System. By being an authorized sales and service partner, Wärtsilä aims to bring together the air lubrication system of Silverstream…