WHEN A SWEDISH PROGRAM TO INVESTIGATE ENGINE ROOM FIRES WAS LAUNCHED
The year was 1985.
At this time I was running my own consulting company and with my previous work experience on the development of fire detection systems, together with one of the Salen subsidiary companies,...
THE WORLD’S LARGEST SHIP EQUIPPED WITH A WIND DEFLECTOR TURNS HEADS AS IT TOURS...
ONE Trust, a 20,170 TEU containership owned by Japanese shipowner Ocean Network Express (ONE), is showcasing an innovative device installed on its bow, a wind deflector.
The device has been installed at Qingdao Beihai shipyard...
PSV AND JACK-UP RIG PREPARING FOR NORTH SEA PILOT CO2 STORAGE PROJECT
The final stage of preparation work is getting underway in Denmark preparing two vessels that will take part in a pilot project for the transport and storage of CO2 in the North Sea. The...
INDIA’S PROPOSED PLAN TO REVIVE DOMESTIC SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY
India is exploring a plan to subsidize its shipbuilding industry in its latest push for industrialization as part of an India first campaign. The details emerged as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is preparing to...
UNIQUE FLOATING INSTALLATION METHOD USED TO CONSTRUCT WIND FARM
For the first time, the construction of an offshore wind farm is being conducted using a floating installation method. Instead of using a traditional jack-up wind turbine installation vessel, which are in short supply...
LIFEBOAT FALLS FROM QUANTUM OF THE SEAS – FORTUNATELY NO INJURIES
On December 1, 2022, a lifeboat from Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas detached from its davits and fell aft-first into the water.
Captain Francesco Suma explained that the ship’s number 12 lifeboat, on the...
SHI TEAMS UP WITH DASSAULT TO TRANSFORM INTO A ‘SMART YARD’
South Korea’s shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French software corporation Dassault Systèmes to create a “smart yard” based on new digital transformation technology.
The smart yard is designed...
CLASSNK GRANTS 1ST AIP FOR DUAL-FUEL ENGINE POWERED BY HYDROGEN
Classification society ClassNK has issued an approval in principle (AiP) for a dual-fuel generator engine using hydrogen gas as fuel for a liquefied hydrogen (LH2) carrier developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI).
As informed,...
TENTATIVE DEAL ON INCLUDING SHIPPING’S GHG EMISSIONS IN EU ETS COVERS METHANE AND N20
A preliminary agreement has been reached between the EU’s top three institutions to include greenhouse gas emissions from the maritime sector in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).
The tentative deal was struck on Tuesday...
FINNISH PARTNERS DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGY FOR ONBOARD HYDROGEN PRODUCTION FROM LNG
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has entered into a joint development agreement with Hycamite TCD Technologies, a privately-owned compatriot company specialising in the development of technology for producing clean hydrogen and solid carbon from methane.
Under...