Through its subsidiary company Scanship, Vow ASA has been awarded a €5.7 mill contract with a major European shipyard for the delivery of two advanced wastewater purification systems. The systems will be installed on two undisclosed cruise ships due to enter service in 2024 and [Read more...]
Wärtsilä is to supply a range of equipment for a new 132 m long ropax ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co (IOMSP). She is being built at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and will serve the Heysham to Douglas, Isle of Man route. The [Read more...]
As part of its ongoing programme to increase fuel efficiency, Tallink Grupp has installed Qtagg’s EcoPilot system on the cruise ferry ‘Isabelle’. EcoPilot is a voyage optimisation tool incorporating autonomous speed and power control, as well as weather routing. The software controls the propulsion machinery [Read more...]
Shell Marine has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide marine lubricants to Carnival Corp’s global fleet of 89 ships. Carnival will also offset the CO2 emissions from the marine lubricants it purchases from Shell, through Shell’s nature-based carbon credits. Joris van Brussel, General Manager, [Read more...]
The Schulte Group has acquired Rescompany Systems (Resco), a provider of hospitality software solutions to the cruise industry. With its integrated ship-to-shore software systems, Resco is a perfect match and ideal addition to the services offered by Schulte Group subsidiary and digital technology company MariApps [Read more...]
Spanish ferry company Baleària’s LNG powered high speed ropax ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’, currently under construction at the Armon shipyards at Gijon, will begin sea trials ‘in the coming weeks’. Following her trials, the vessel will be delivered in March of this year, according to local reports. She [Read more...]
Russia’s first LNG bunkering tanker for cargo and passenger vessel refuelling, ‘Dmitry Mendeleev’ under construction for Gazprom Neft, was launched from the shipyard last month. The shipyard completed the main stage of the vessel’s construction, including assembling the hull and installing LNG fuel tanks and other [Read more...]
MAN Energy Solutions’ after-sales division – MAN PrimeServ Augsburg – has developed an selective catalystic reduction (SCR) solution, which is to be retrofitted on board the ‘Amadea’, a cruise ship chartered by Phoenix Reisen and managed by BSM Cruise Services. The retrofit designed by MAN [Read more...]
‘Le Jacques-Cartier’, the last in the PONANT ‘EXPLORERS’ series of six expedition class cruise ships, has been awarded Bureau Veritas (BV) class notation NR614 for Underwater Radiated Noise (URN). This award reflects PONANT’s commitment to reducing the environmental impact of its ships and operations, the [Read more...]
A recent inspection of the 20-year-old water-lubricated propeller shaft bearings installed on a twin-screw cruise ship were found to be within classification society parameters. In addition, the bearings were suitable for continued use for a further 10 years. At the shipowner’s request, Thordon Bearings attended [Read more...]