BookletCharts, nautical charts that are easy to download & print from home computers now in official NOAA production.Coast Survey has now moved the BookletCharts from experimental stage into official production. Nearly a thousand newly updated BookletCharts are available free on the Web…
German Greens MEP Michael Cramer welcomes news that development of the world's first hydrogen-fuelled ship has come a step closer.Cramer was speaking at the presentation of 'project zero', an initiative designed to develop the first ship generating zero greenhouse gas emissions…
Shell technology creates sharper pictures of underground rock formations to find new oil and gas fields more cost effectively.Shell has found a way to use tiny motion sensors – like those used in modern everyday gadgets – to create sharper pictures of underground rock formations…
The following is a look into the overhaul of a MAN B&W 6S50MC main engine onboard a tanker berthed in the Bahamas. The overhaul was performed by Transmarine Propulsion Systems, (TMPS) during a docking, the first major overhaul of the vessel’s engine which had 22…
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ships WAVE KNIGHT and WAVE RULER Receive New Integrated Platform Management Systems GE’s Power Conversion (NYSE: GE) business has started fitting the latest generation of Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS)…
Galileo’s search and rescue system (SAR) passes first space test to begin major expansion of the Cospas–Sarsat network.The second pair of Europe’s Galileo navigation satellites – launched together on 12 October last year – are the first of the constellation to host SAR search and rescue repeaters…
The Industrial Marine Training and Applied Research Centre (IMTARC) located in Esquimalt, BC, is officially opened.The Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic persification (WD), joined provincial and local representatives…
Historic Shipbuilding Contract for World’s First LNG-Powered Containership to be MAN-Powered, NASSCO-BuiltLast month U.S. ship owner Tote Inc. shocked the maritime community in ordering the world’s first LNG-powered containerships; in one fell swoop energizing the U…
USS Makin Island (LHD 8) is the last in a series of 8 amphibious assault ships of the WASP-class built by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding at its Pascagoula, Miss. shipyard. Though last, it is the first in the series fitted with hybrid electric gas turbine propulsion…
New ClassNK-approved container-type Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS) installation technology. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), working jointly with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), has developed installation technology of a ballast…
San Diego conference to be the largest in U.S. history: World ocean community to gather at Oceans 2013.More than a dozen professional and academic societies are coming together for OCEANS '13 MTS/IEEE San Diego, 'An Ocean in Common'. The conference…
Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation and the global technology standard for managing the movement of cargo through terminals, has announced that APM Terminals’ new state-of-the-art facility Maasvlakte II, located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands…
Emulsified Fuel Tech Earns a Better RepMatters of fuel use, economy and emissions are “A-List” items on any vessel owner’s agenda, as skyrocketing prices for diesel and a spiraling maze of regulation regarding fuel content and emissions are pressing owners to adopt technical solutions…
Using SCI’s newly developed Internet application, seafarers can use mobile devices to get information on US environmental pollution laws from anywhere in the world.Expanding materials developed in conjunction with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy…
Arctic Fibre Inc plans to construct a 15,167 km (9,424 mile) subsea fibre optic cable; North Alaska Slope residents to benefit.Arctic Fibre announce that it will partner with Anchorage-based Quintillion Networks, LLC to provide broadband telecommunications services to more than 26…
