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The Turkish Navy moves forward with Rolls-Royce imarest.org
Power systems provider Rolls-Royce has won an order to supply propulsion equipment for three new ships commissioned by the Turkish Navy. Istanbul Shipyard will design and build one Submarine Rescue Mother Ship (MOSHIP) and two...

SKF has announced the commercial availability of an integrated and flexible condition-based maintenance (CBM) solution for propulsion and positioning thrusters (tunnel and azimuthing thrusters) in the marine and offshore...

Supply of marine air compressor spares
I can supply a wide range of genuine and alternative spares for many marine screw compressors including Almig, Alup, Stromme, EMS, Atlas ...

Power and automation technology group ABB has won an order to provide complete power plant and propulsion systems for the first new build ship for German cruise operator TUI Cruises. The 97,000gt vessel, ordered by the joint...

California tightens discharge restrictions imarest.org
According to an American P&I Club alert to its members, the State of California has introduced a No Discharge Zone (NDZ) that prohibits vessel sewage discharge in all California marine waters. The US Coast Guard will enforce...

Greek order for OceanSaver Mark II BWT system imarest.org
OceanSaver has secured a contract with Greek-owned tanker company CMM to supply two Mark II ballast water treatment systems for two chemical tankers to be constructed in South Korea. The agreement with CMM represents...

Weir Minerals’ recently opened sales and service centre in Nederweert, Netherlands, has just delivered a €750,000 order range of slurry pumps and spare parts for two of Van Oord’s recent build cutter dredgers - the Athena and...

EnSolve Biosystems has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant ($445,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a prototype treatment device for the removal of hydrocarbons from sulfur...

ZF expands marine transmissions product range imarest.org
ZF has unveiled its new ZF 5000 series of marine transmissions that are characterised by low noise gear design, pinion friction bearing, excellent shifting comfort and short engagement times, all while providing a large number...

MAN Diesel & Turbo successfully completed the takeover of Kappel propeller - including designs, software, and intellectual property together with continued co-operation with Mr Jens Julius Kappel at end March. The move will...

Correspondence course marine surveyors
Recently the MER has been including advertising for surveyor training by correspondence course, has anyone ever gained a surveyors ...

The growing risk to ships’ crews – including marine engineers - by pirates off the coasts of Somalia and West Africa have given rise to a trend in using armed guards to safeguard the vessels on their journeys. However, a number...

APM’s Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller passes away imarest.org
Danish shipowner and operator group A.P. Moller-Maersk (APM) has announced the death of its partner and shipowner Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller at the age of 98. Møller, who passed away yesterday, was born in Copenhagen in July 1913...

Power and automation technology group ABB has won orders worth more than $60 million to provide complete power and Azipod propulsion systems for two new cruise ships to be built by Meyer Werft at its shipyard in Papenburg,...

The recent centenary of the tragic sinking of the Titanic on the 15 April 1912, has led to much information is being made available from many sources; and film and TV programmes are bringing to the public the suffering, and the...

Eniram unveils Singapore base imarest.org
Finland-headquartered Eniram Limited, which provides real time decision-support systems to the shipping industry, has opened an Asian office in Singapore that will be headed by Noël Jelsma: Asia Pacific Regional Director. The...

Wärtsillä Hamworthy today announced an agreement with Wilh. Wilhelmsen to retrofit its vessel MV Tamesis with a Krystallon Exhaust Gas Cleaning System (EGCS). The systems will remove sulphur and particulates from the exhaust...

Becker Marine Systems has delivered a Becker Mewis Duct with a diameter of 8.10 meters for installation onboard a VLCC under construction at Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries for Samco Shipholding in Singapore. The duct - the...

Ballast water treatment system manufacturer OceanSaver has secured a contract to equip four open hatch bulk carriers under construction at Japan’s Oshima Shipbuilding Ltd for Gearbulk. The 72,000dwt Open Hatch Bulk Carriers are...

Uson Marine has launched a completely redesigned website with unique new functions to the benefit its ship/rig owner and operator customers and resellers comply with more stringent rules and regulations relating to waste...
