Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has obtained certification of emission standard compliance from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines. It will enable Wärtsilä to strongly enter the American market with marine engine technology that offers operators and owners the option of using either diesel [...]
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, yesterday announced that its Onboard DC Grid will receive a Spotlight on New Technology Award at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) to be held May 6-9 in Houston. The awards honor innovative technologies for the oil and gas industry and related energy sectors that have the potential [...]
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Nakilat, Qatar’s premier marine company, and its ship repair and shipbuilding joint ventures, N-KOM and NDSQ, received teaching staff from CNA-Q at their shipyard facilities last week to help promote marine industry careers to young Qatari Nationals. The day-long event held on Monday March 4th enabled CNA-Q (College of the North Atlantic – Qatar) faculty [...]
FSUE “Rosmorport” provided ecological services to 15 thousand vessels in 2012. That was the message of Sergey Ilyashenko Chief of the FSUE “Rosmorport” Navigation Support Department, which he gave during the IV International Forum Ecology (project of the United Russia Party “Saint-Petersburg, the sea capital of Russia”). During 2012 the enterprise also collected about [...]
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On Saturday Feb. 23rd, MRV Ocean Response enters Atlantic Offshore’s fleet. Immediately, following the naming ceremony at Bryggen in Bergen, she will head to the North Sea and operate for Statoil. The newbuild cost is approx. NOK 330 million (USD 58.2 million) This is the third newbuild delivered to the company. CEO Roy Wareberg said [...]
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The winner of the 2012 World Oil Award for Best Production Technology is a breakthrough in subsea insulation developed by Dow Oil and Gas, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (DOW), in cooperation with multiple organizations, including Trelleborg Offshore, a leading provider of polymer and syntactic foam-based coating solutions for the offshore oil [...]
A boat with suspension inspired by Paris Dakar-winning rally cars that can remain stable and a ‘seahorse’ vessel consisting of a towering keel that minimises movements in the ocean swell are two of the six innovative concepts that will receive further funding from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore wind Accelerator (OWA), its flagship collaborative RD&D programme. [...]
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The Maritime Singapore Green Pledge continues to receive positive response from the maritime industry as another 13 organisations came together to sign the Maritime Singapore Green Pledge during the opening ceremony of the 17th Singapore International Bunkering Conference and Exhibition (SIBCON). This is the third Green Pledge signing ceremony organised by the Maritime and Port [...]
The National Maritime Week started last Monday (September 24, 2012) and kicked off with activities that looked back on the contributions of Filipino maritime workers for the country and the maritime industry in general. Officials and members of the Associated Marine Officers and Seamen’s Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP) took the lead during the first [...]
Lowestoft based company East Coast Charters Ltd are due to take delivery of thier new vessel ECC Challenger in the next few weeks. The Challenger is built by East Coast Workcats a subsidiarycompany and this vessel marks the first project to be completed. East Coast Charters General Manager Sam McNamee stated ” The delivery of [...]
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