TMC Compressors has been awarded a contract by Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCCL) to supply marine compressors to be retrofitted on board the ’Enchantment of the Seas’. This contract comes some 24 years after TMC delivered the original compressors to the ship. “To run a marine compressed [Read more...]
Telenor Maritime’s new platform can help facilitate the digitalisation of the shipping industry. This can be achieved with secure, reliable and cost-effective sharing of data right across the globe, CEO Lars Erik Lunøe (pictured) said. The company, founded as MCP in 2002, before being bought [Read more...]
Rescompany Systems (Resco) has enhanced its partnership with Phoenix Reisen to develop a mobile ticketless excursion module. This system was designed to validate all shore excursion bookings on board. The application works offline to track each person on a bus or tour and can also charge walk-ins. [Read more...]
UK-based Audience Systems is now marketing Japanese sleep capsules to the cruise and ferry market sector. Tokyo-based Kotobuki has installed sleep capsules in all types of accommodation worldwide. Two Stena Line ropaxes operating on the Rostock/Trelleborg route were recently fitted with the capsules. The crossing [Read more...]
UK-based travel system specialist Inspiretec has unveiled new cruise selling technology. It has updated its trade selling platform having identified a need for better technology in the sector, the company explained. Inspiretec will introduce the new system in the spring and is aiming at a [Read more...]
Last month, MSC Cruises gave a technology update on its new ships. The line said that ‘MSC Virtuosa’ and ‘MSC Seashore’ are to be equipped with cutting-edge technologies that minimise their environmental footprint. In addition, the LNG-powered ‘MSC World Europa’ will join fleet in 2022, [Read more...]
French cruise ship builder Chantiers de l’Atlantique is to install a model of a Solid Sail/AeolDrive at the shipyard. This is the French yard’s solution for sailing propulsion adapted for large ships. This announcement was made during an e-event broadcast live from ‘MSC Virtuosa’ handing [Read more...]
V.Ships Leisure is to take on the crew management for the world’s first fast ferry fitted with dual natural gas engines. The newly built ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’, to be operated by Spanish ferry company Balearia, also includes a number of features aimed at optimising passenger experience, [Read more...]
Swedish maritime internet service provider, AecorLink is to deliver high speed internet to Wasaline´s new ferry - ‘Aurora Botnia’. Wasaline has been using the company’s broadband service since 2017, on the ropax ‘Wasa Express’. The company claimed to have installed the first long distance shore [Read more...]
Four of the top five major cruise companies have signed long-term strategic framework agreements for services delivered over SES Networks’ O3b mPOWER communications system. Most of the agreements were agreed to 2026 and beyond, the company said. The services will enable enhanced connectivity on board [Read more...]