Permanent magnet (PM) technology has some clear benefits also for marine applications. Since fuel prices have gone up by 30% in only 2 years and freight rates have remained at about the same level for the past 10 years, energy savings has become hot topic in shipbuilding. By using PM technology just in shaft generator [...]
Arctic offshore vessel Aleksey Chirikov has left on sea trial for four days on 19 March 2013. Arctech Helsinki Shipyard is building two identical offshore icebreaking supply vessels for Russias largest shipping group Sovcomflot (SCF Group). The first vessel in the series, Vitus Bering, was delivered in December 2012 and has reached its destination at [...]
Wartsila, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has signed a five year maintenance agreement with Finnish ship owner, Viking Line. The agreement, which became effective from March 1, is for maintaining and servicing the recently launched ‘Viking Grace’, the largest passenger ferry ever to operate on liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel. The agreement [...]
Wartsila’s unmatched ability to supply a complete portfolio of solutions for the marine and offshore industry is again demonstrated with this latest order for a series of pumping systems for Statoil. Wartsila has won a valuable order to supply a series of pumps to be installed on a new floating storage unit (FSU). The FSU [...]
Oy Kewatec AluBoat Ab and the Swedish Maritime Agency have signed a deal for a series of fast pilot vessels. The deal comes after a protracted procurement program in competition with several Swedish boat yards. The boats will be based on the company’s earlier series of pilot vessels, delivered to the Finnish piloting agency, Finnpilot [...]
Kewatec AluBoat, a company from Kokkola, Finland, specialized in manufacturing of aluminium boats has made an agreement with the state-owned company Meritaito. The agreement concerns manufacturing of oil spill response equipment and vessels. “The agreement puts together the experience and boat building knowledge of Kewatec with oil spill response equipment developed based on need studies [...]
Having successfully delivered almost half of the world’s new-build jack-up rigs and a third of the semisubmersibles in the past decade, Keppel FELS productivity and capabilities will be significantly increased with the new panel line from PEMA. These solutions are unique especially for rig building. Delivery will consist of an extensive flat panel line with [...]
Foreship BlueTech Ltd. has developed an efficient CSR bulk carrier series, called the Sea Dragon. The series is based on state-of-art hydrodynamics – including optimization with RANS-CFD – and the latest engine technology, providing world class fuel economy figures, daily consumption being 30% below average current designs. Datasheets of the designs are available for download [...]
Navis Engineering is supplying six DP2 systems for the new series of Fast Support Intervention Vessels (FSIVs) being built at the Piriou SEAS shipyard in Vietnam for Paris-based Bourbon. The first vessel in the six-ship series, the Bourbon Sirocco was delivered towards the end of 2012 and is deployed in Angola. Her sistership, the Bourbon [...]
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has received a repeat order to provide a hybrid exhaust gas cleaning and SCR system. The contract was signed in December 2012. The systems provide universal compliance with sulphur limits including the North American ECA, the 2015 0.1 per cent ECA in Europe, the worldwide 0.5 [...]
