Technology

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 [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 [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. [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [Read more...]