The innovative Mobilarm V100 Digital PLB is being shown to the European offshore industry for the first time at Offshore Europe 2009. This follows field trials which took place in the North Sea during July 2009. The V100 is a fully automated Marine Survivor Locating Device, which transmits a man ove
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, announce that it has won a £7.5 million order for the supply of podded propulsion equipment and stabilising fins for the latest French Navy Mistral class amphibious assault ship. This latest order follows earlier contracts to supply podded propulsors an
Container shipping line Evergreen will extend its peak season surcharge (PSS) and implement an emergency bunker surcharge on its services between Asia and India and Europe. Evergreen is extending its US$175 per teu PSS until 31 December on the westbound Asia and Indian-subcontinent to Europe and the
Odense Steel Shipyard will divide the organisation into two divisions, Lindø Industrial Park and Lindø Shipyard. Lindø Industrial Park is facing a development process, while Lindø Shipyard is to be closed down. These are two very different tasks which have to be handled differently, and this is best
Augsburg-based large engine manufacturer MAN Diesel has won two orders for its dual-fuel 51/60 DF engine in the power plant sector. These dual-fuel engines, which can be operated both with gas and with liquid fuel, are being sent to Brazil and Australia. The 51/60DF was originally developed for use
With the drilling of 1000 pillars, Wärtsilä has officially begun construction of its Central Distribution Centre (CDC), located in Kampen, Netherlands. The realisation of this centre is one of the milestones towards establishing a new global parts and logistics organisation, Wärtsilä Global Logistic
Overhauling two Siwertell ship unloaders at a power plant in the Philippines, combined with maintenance and operator training, has had an immediate and dramatic impact on turnaround times When AES bought the Masinloc Power Plant in the Philippines the company was determined to prepare its business f
TRELLEBORG Offshore has launched ELASTOPIPE™ FOR (Fire & Oil Resistant), an upgraded version of its successful synthetic rubber-based flexible piping system. ELASTOPIPETM FOR is specially engineered for transport of organic media, extending the use of the already-established, unique ELASTOPIPETM tec
Australia-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine has signed a contract with Australian marine operations company, Bhagwan Marine, to build a 48.5-metre landing craft for use in the Australian offshore oil and gas industry. The vessel will be used in Western Australian’s north-west hydrocarbon province.
An oil and gas discovery has been made by StatoilHydro in the Nona prospect ten kilometres south east of the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. Based on preliminary calculations the size of the find is between 13-31 million barrels of oil and 1-2 billion standard cubic metres of gas. “The Nona disco
The “new” Damco will operate independently of sister company Maersk Line and has not been spun off as a prelude to a sale by cash-strapped parent group AP Moller-Maersk, CEO Rolf Habben-Jansen insisted last week. Speaking exclusively to IFW to mark the official re-launch of Damco – which now incorpo
On September 4th, on behalf of People’ s Government of Qingdao, the headquarter of the construction responsible for the development of Dong Jiakou port in Qingdao, signed the cooperative frame agreement with the IMC Group of Singapore on developing the 400,000 tons of iron ore wharf at the Dong Jiak
Twelve months after the keel laying of the trailing suction hopper dredger Leiv Eiriksson at Construcciones Navales del Norte in Sestao, Spain, the vessel was launched on 4 September. The mega hopper, with a capacity of 46,000m³ , is a sister vessel to Cristóbal Colón.
Global satellite communications provider Marlink has recently signed a major new three year contract with Dubai-based maritime geophysical company, Polarcus DMCC. The new agreement includes delivery and installation of Marlink’s Sealink C-band VSAT services onboard four Polarcus innovative 3D seismi
