Technology

To help meet its Clean Air Programme air quality standards for its planned residential cruise ship ’Narrative’, Storylines has chosen HVAC solutions company Carrier to provide comfort, air quality, safety and security. Carrier will provide HVAC and automation solutions that [Read more...]

Both ferries and cruise ships operators have seen the potential in battery power on board, either for propulsion or for hotel usage. The potential of emerging battery technologies to contribute to shipping’s de-carbonisation was explored in the latest [Read more...]

Ultra-luxury cruise line Silversea Cruises has taken delivery of the ’Silver Dawn’ at Fincantieri’s Ancona shipyard. ‘Silver Dawn’ is the third ship to join Silversea’s fleet since the start of 2020. “In welcoming the beautiful ’Silver Dawn’ as [Read more...]

Viking Line is to fit Elomatic’s Elogrids on the ropax ‘Viking XPRS’. Elogrids are used to reduce a ship’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. They are installed at the entrance of tunnel thrusters to reduce additional resistance from [Read more...]

Cargotec subsidiary, MacGregor, has secured a cargo access equipment order for two ropaxes. They are to be built by Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) for Spirit of Tasmania (TT-Line Co Pty Ltd). This order was booked into Cargotec's second [Read more...]

Wärtsilä Voyage has delivered an integrated bridge and navigation system to the Polar cruise vessel ‘National Geographic Resolution’. Built at Ulstein Verft shipyard, Lindblad Expeditions Holdings took delivery of the expedition cruise ship in September, 2021. With her [Read more...]

Wärtsilä Exhaust Treatment will install open loop exhaust gas abatement technology on two Grimaldi subsidiary Trasmed ropaxes. Trasmed has opted for four of Wärtsilä’s I-SOx open loop scrubbers with exhaust de-plume systems for the ’Volcan del Teide’ and ’Ciudad de [Read more...]

The first of two large cruise ferries building for Moby Lines was floated out at China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) shipyard earlier this month. Named ’Moby Fantasy’, the two large ropaxes will replace four older vessels operating between Italy [Read more...]

On 5th November, the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation took place in Estonia, by Elenger Marine. This involved Tallink’s shuttle ferry ‘Megastar’, which sails between Tallinn and Helsinki. She was bunkered by ‘Optimus’ at the Old City Harbour of [Read more...]

CMI Ship Management has established the CMI Crew Training Academy in partnership with Simwave’s Maritime Centres of Excellence. Jim Barreiro de Leon, CMI President & CEO and Marcel Kind, CEO & Founder of Simwave have opened a bespoke, [Read more...]