Kongsberg Maritime (KM) has won a milestone order to deliver large waterjets for an Incat built high speed ferry. In addition to four Kongsberg Kamewa S90-4 waterjets, the delivery will include a touch screen remote control system, incorporating a CanMan Touch joystick, enabling the ship [Read more...]
Gasum’s Hamburg based LNG supplier, Nauticor has conducted the initial ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operations for P&O’s newbuilding cruise ship ‘Iona’. The bunkering was conducted by Gasum’s LNG BSV ‘Kairos’ in Bremerhaven. This operation also marked another milestone as it was the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering [Read more...]
Spanish ferry operator, Balearia, has claimed it completed the first LNG bunkering operation for its converted ferry ‘Bahama Mama’ in Algeciras. Balearia carried out the LNG bunkering operations using a truck-to-ship method on 8th June, the company said. Last year, Gibraltar’s Gibdock retrofitted the ropax [Read more...]
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and Shin Nihonkai Ferry are to use a grant from The Nippon Foundation to develop ‘underlying technologies’ for unmanned ship navigation. These technologies will be tested on a vessel operating in Japanese coastal waters. Mitsubishi said that prototype system will be installed on [Read more...]
VONE technology and Rescompany (Resco) are to to co-operate to provide a solution for cruise ship thermal screening and monitoring. VONE will work as a techincal intergration service provider to Resco cruise operation and management systems worldwide. Under this agreement, VONE thermail screening system (VCOS [Read more...]
Wärtsilä is to supply the propulsion systems for a new 115 m long high-speed ferry. The vessel is being built by Austal at the Australian shipbuilder’s yard in the Philippines for Danish operator Molslinjen. She will feature four Wärtsilä 31 4-stroke diesel engines, and four [Read more...]
As cruise shipowners look to make their vessels safer and more hygienic once they return to service, clean air should be a top priority. To help achieve this, Oslo-based architecture and design company YSA Design is collaborating with energy services and engineering firm Scenso, whose [Read more...]
Silverstream Technologies, has won £1 mill contract to fit its technology on a Carnival Cruises vessel. The patented Silverstream System, a type of air lubrication system (ALS), pumps small bubbles through vents on the hull to reduce friction between the vessel and the water. The [Read more...]
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is to support the development of an AI (Artificial intelligence) cruise ship supply forecasting project with a grant to software developer MarineXchange. Accurate supply chain forecasting is a huge challenge for the cruise sector, the company explained. Because ships [Read more...]
Wärtsilä is to provide a complete LNG package for two new ferries being built for Japanese-based Ferry Sunflower, a subsidiary of Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL). The ships are being built at Mitsubishi’s Shimonoseki shipyard and will be the first LNG-fuelled ferries to be built in [Read more...]