Norway-based Kongsberg Maritime has secured a leading role in a project to convert the double-ended car ferry MF Hamlet to battery-powered operation. The conversion of the 111.2m ferry, which is operated by Öresundslinjen on the route between Helsingør, Denmark, and Helsingborg, Sweden, will include the installation of battery packs and new permanent magnet motors for the azimuth […]
As a solution that’s been officially recognised by IMO as a Category B-1 ‘Innovative Energy Efficiency Solution’ since 2013 (MEPC. 1/Circ. 815), the air lubrication system (ALS) is most certainly on an upward trajectory as shipowners strive to improve the CII ratings of their vessels. According to DNV’s most recent Maritime Forecast Report as of […]
The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) completed an 18-month docking planning incremental availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility on 21 March 2023. Work completed during the availability, which began on 10 September 2021, included a variety of regularly scheduled maintenance as well as modernization upgrades. The project […]
Oslo-listed BW LPG, the world’s leading owner and operator of LPG vessels, recently completed the conversion of the main engine of BW Malacca to enable dual-fuel running. The last such conversion for a series of 15 LPG carriers commissioned by the company, the ship’s MAN B&W 6G60ME-C9.2 type engine was retrofitted to an MAN B&W […]
With Singapore easing Covid-19 measures earlier this year, Keppel Shipyard reports that its shiprepair and conversion business activities have been picking up in 2022, compared with the same period last year. A spokesman says: “We are continuing to receive strong enquiries for repair, conversions and other major specialised projects.” In particular the yard notes that […]
Greek ballast water treatment system supplier, Erma First, reports that 2022 has been a “real success” for the company. Over the first nine months of the year it has dispatched over 1000 systems, the majority being retrofit projects. Panagiotis Dalianis, commercial director, says: “We have experienced high demand in previous years, but as the date […]