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  • A quieter cruise

    16 February 2007

    Heavy marine engines are not only powerful, but also extremely loud, issuing vibrations which spread through the entire hull. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability (LBF) in Darmstadt have found a way of blocking the sound immediately below the engine with the help of counter-vibrations.

  • UK: Three partners to delve into the potential of ammonia in maritime decarbonization

    5 September 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Scottish Port of Cromarty Firth, Brunel University of London, and UK environmental and engineering consultancy Ricardo have joined forces to launch a feasibility study that aims to understand how ammonia could support the decarbonization of the maritime sector and a concept for a next-generation ammonia combustion engine.

  • HB Hunte receives AiPs for new LCO2 tank design with voestalpine’s F550 TMCP toughcore material

    16 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Certification & Classification, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Vessels, Vision

    BV, DNV, and RINA have approved HB Hunte Engineering’s revolutionary tank design made of voestalpine Grobblech’s F550 TMCP toughcore, opening the gates towards a safe and reliable Liquid Carbon Dioxide (LCO2) transport. LCO2 cargo handling brings new challenges to tank designers and manufacturers due to its particular physical properties. One of the challenges for example […]

  • Norway’s Buksér og Berging welcomes new hybrid tug

    30 September 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norwegian maritime services provider Buksér og Berging has taken delivery of a new hybrid tugboat built by Türkiye’s Uzmar Shipyard.

  • UK: Aker Solutions Creates Jobs with Opening of New Stockton-on-Tees Office

    19 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    International oil services group Aker Solutions is set to ramp up its presence in the north east of England. The company aims to create up to 100 jobs in its new Stockton-on-Tees engineering office over the next three years. Aker Solutions’ drilling technologies business will be the main occupant in the new office, which is […]

  • Germany: Siemens Receives Order to Provide Diesel-Electric Propulsion Systems for Italian Coast Guard

    7 June 2011

    The latest order placed with Siemens Marine Solutions proves that diesel-electric propulsion systems are suitable not only for large merchant and naval vessels but also for small ships. The Italian shipyard Cantieri Navali Megaride has commissioned the Siemens unit to equip a 65-meter-long offshore supply vessel from the Italian coast guard with the Siship EcoProp […]

  • Hydro Group Boosts Management Team

    23 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Hydro Group plc, a global design and manufacturer of underwater cables and connectors for subsea, underwater, topside and onshore applications, has strengthened its management team with two senior appointments. Lynn Rennie joins Hydro Group in the position of Programme Manager, handling a range of projects across the engineering, production, logistic and quality departments. She will […]

  • Norway: Wartsila Strengthens Market Leadership with New LNG Powered Platform Supply Vessel order

    20 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider, has strengthened its position as the global leader in supplying design and propulsion solutions for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) with yet another important order. Norwegian operator Eidesvik Offshore has placed an order for its fifth gas PSV. This latest order further demonstrates Eidesvik’s position […]

  • Chart Releases Cold Fuel Solution for LNG Vehicle Fuel Systems (USA)

    25 June 2013

    Chart Industries announced the release of a device that can be added or retrofitted to Chart LNG vehicle fuel systems which ensures compatibility with fuel stations optimized for various engine technologies, including Spark Ignition (SI) and Compression Ignition diesel engines with both Indirect (CI-IDI) and Direct (CI-DI) Injection. Previously, LNG fuel stations were required to […]

  • Mustang Establishes Malaysian JV Company with Sime Darby

    26 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Mustang, a Wood Group Company, and Sime Darby’s Energy & Utilities Division have entered into a joint-venture to form a new company called Mustang Sime Darby. The new company will provide project management, design and procurement support services for the Southeast Asian oil & gas industry from its regional hub in Kuala Lumpur and expand […]

  • Aker Solutions Expands Presence in North East England

    19 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    International oil services group Aker Solutions is set to ramp up its presence in the north east of England. The company aims to create up to 100 jobs in its new Stockton-on-Tees engineering office over the next three years. Aker Solutions’ drilling technologies business will be the main occupant in the new office, which is […]

  • Port of Corpus Christi Secures Funding in USACE FY18 Work Plan

    22 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Corpus Christi has achieved an another milestone with last week’s release of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) FY’18 Work Plan.  Included in the Corps of Engineers’ navigation construction budget was nearly $23 million for the Corpus Christi Channel Improvement Project (CIP) designed to deepen and widen one of the nation’s […]

  • C-Innovation Welcomes Lazenby as Commercial Manager

    8 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    C-Innovation, an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has appointed Shaun Lazenby as commercial manager. Based in Houston, his responsibilities will include preparing proposals and tenders, monitoring bid performances, identifying future opportunities, managing project documents and sales. Lazenby previously served in a variety of engineering roles for organizations including Subsea […]

  • HR Wallingford to Support Swansea Bay Project

    11 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The UK government has given the go-ahead to a £1 billion project to build the world’s first tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, Wales. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has given planning consent to Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) to build the lagoon which will use the ebb and flow of the tide to generate […]

  • China: NACKS Hands Over Bulk Carrier Global Oriole

    17 May 2012

    Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. recently delivered the Global Oriole bulk carrier ,with a capacity of 58,000 DWT (Kawasaki hull no. 1686, NACKS hull no. 126), for Global Odyssey S.A. at Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (NACKS) in Nantong, China. Features of the Global Oriole 1. The vessel has a flush deck with a […]

  • Oceanteam and KCI Take a Crack at Chinese Offshore Wind Market

    26 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Oceanteam ASA and KCI the Engineers have signed a long-term representing and consultancy agreement with OFFCO (Offshore Cooperation) for projects relating to offshore wind installations and cable lay operations in China. According to the agreement, Oceanteam Solutions will provide marine equipment and KCI will provide engineering services for potential projects. “Through Oceanteam’s close co-operation with subsidiary KCI, we can provide OFFCO […]

  • Tieshan Port Development Plan Makes Progress (China)

    25 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Recently, CCCC First Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. and CCCC Fourth Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. have respectively won the bid for Section II and I of the hydraulic works of Berth 1 and 2 in Shitoubu operation zone of Tieshan Port in Beihai, Guangxi, with a total contract value of 292 million yuan. The project of […]

  • NYK Orion Undergoing Repairs

    3 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Repairs of Panama-flagged containership M/V NYK Orion that suffered engine problems are underway, ocean carrier APL said in a customer advisory on Tuesday. The vessel was headed for Singapore from its last known port Jeddah Anch, according to the latest data from Marine Traffic. As informed, the voyage was suspended due to engine glitches. However, […]

  • E.ON Setting the Stage for Skilled Workforce

    10 November 2016
    Human Capital

    Three young people from the local area have been awarded paid apprenticeship at E.ON’s Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm base in Great Yarmouth, as they embarked on a four-year apprenticeship programme launched by the company in September. The programme will provide them with an Advanced Level Apprenticeship in Engineering Maintenance. In the first two years, the apprentices will predominantely […]

  • Wartsila to power DEME’s LNG dredger

    12 April 2017
    Equipment, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Finnish engine maker Wärtsilä has secured a contract to supply a package of engines and propulsion machinery for a new cutter suction dredger, being built for Belgium’s DEME. The LNG-powered dredger named Spartacus will be the world’s most powerful CSD and the first ever to be fuelled by liquefied natural gas, according to IHC, that is building the […]

  • US Navy renews Rolls-Royce with $66 million contract

    3 October 2007

    The US Navy has renewed its engine services contract with Rolls-Royce to provide support for the F405 engines which power T-45 training aircraft. The contract is worth $66 million to Rolls-Royce and is the fifth year of a five-year agreement.

  • Alfa Laval begins testing new fuels to support shipping’s transition

    8 March 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Research & Development, Transition

    Swedish company Alfa Laval will soon start testing two new types of marine fuels — biofuels (made from waste) and methanol, at its Test & Training Centre in Denmark.

  • Aker Solutions Establishes Office in Sweden for its Subsea Business

    12 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      International oil services company Aker Solutions takes its subsea business to Sweden through establishment of an office in Gothenburg. The objective is to tap into the Swedish engineering market to help further grow Aker Solutions’ subsea business. International oil services company Aker Solutions takes its subsea business to Sweden through establishment of an office […]

  • MHI Unveiles MET Turbocharger (Japan)

    18 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    On October 17 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Engine Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), unveiled the development of an electro-assist MET turbocharger, saving approximately 30% electric power consumption compared to existing auxiliary blowers, at MHI’s Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works. It was developed using a high-speed motor […]

  • Canal Tugs: The Next Generation

    15 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    Engineering Class ‘Telford Rolt’, a new 6.17 meter, 6.25 tonne tug, was launched into the River Soar at Loughborough this month with a naming ceremony performed by Charlotte Wood, Regional Construction Manager South at Canal & River Trust, a major customer of Land & Water Services Ltd. Designed by Ian Darley, a naval architect and […]