Caterpillar Marine Power Systems has developed the MaK™ M 34 DF, a new marine dual fuel engine platform for the commercial marine industry. The M 34 DF dual fuel engine boasts a power rating of 500 kW per cylinder at 720 and 750 rpm in diesel and gas modes, and will share the same footprint [...]
FutureShip, Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL) maritime engineering and consultancy subsidiary, has announced the unveiling of its ECO Research Centre in Singapore. The Centre, which aims to conduct research to strengthen FutureShip’s energy efficiency solutions for its Asian clients, will be supported by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) under its Maritime Cluster Fund (MCF). [...]
OSX Brasil Reveals New Business Plan OSX Brasil S/A, a Brazilian publicly held corporation with activities in the sector of supplying equipment and services to the offshore oil and natural gas industry, with integrated operations in shipbuilding, chartering of exploration and production units (E&P) and operation and maintenance services (O&M), hereby informs to its shareholders [...]
With funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and supported by “Projektträger Jülich” (PTJ), over the next three years Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and the maritime engineering company HeavyLift@Sea will conduct research into the improvement of tools for the simulation of offshore crane operations. The project is named HoOK – [...]
The shipyard industry seemed to head straight for the output-abyss just 15 months ago. Today the transition from recent years’ record high shipyard output to a more sustainable level of output appears to soft-land with global shipyard output clearly slowing down. This BIMCO analysis compares data from December 2011 with data from March 2013, representing [...]
On Tuesday, May 7th, under the heading “Driving Innovation through Collaboration in the Rig Market”, Statoil revealed the first concepts competing for its CAT-I unit – A drillship designed for arctic areas. Inocean is one of three players participating in the ongoing feasibility study. “It’s a stimulating and demanding project and an enormous inspiration for [...]
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading industrial robot manufacturer, today announced the Company has developed mini welding robots for building ships. The compact design of the welding machine, measuring 50 cm by 30 cm by 15cm when retracted its welding arm, can operate in confined areas inaccessible to human welders. [...]
Tognum subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen today held a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction work on a new R&D test facility at Plant 1. The company plans to invest more than €60 million (approx $78.7 Mln) in the project by 2015. In future, technicians will be able to run function tests on newly [...]
In the wake of the recent announcement that laser weapons will be put on U.S. Navy ships, the need for reliable, high-voltage shipboard power has become a matter of national security, officials said at this week’s Electric Ship Technologies Symposium outside Washington, D.C. The Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored event featured some of the world’s [...]
Amarcon, a member of the ABB group, has signed a cooperation agreement with GTT (Gaztransport & Technigaz) to market and further develop a forecasting and advice software system for sloshing prevention onboard LNG carriers. In the coming years, a significant growth in the long distance transport of LNG is expected. Consequently, a considerable number of [...]
