New York-based software company, OrbitMI, claims that manual noon reporting is tedious and increasingly complex for ships’ crews, often leading to mistakes. Seafarers now have to create a range of reports for different stakeholders and the lack of a…

Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded Approvals in Principle (AiP) to four new fuel vessel concepts developed by Chinese engineering and design firms. A 100,000m3 ethane carrier design, developed by the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design…

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The willingness of Hapag-Lloyd’s shipper customers to participate in the biofuel insetting programme Ship Green is helping to provide financing for the company’s much-publicised retrofit drive, Fleet Manager Captain Silke Lehmkoester told Ship Repair…

Höegh Autoliners is to upgrade ten pure car truck carriers (PCTC) with Kongsberg Maritime Promas Lite propulsion systems. The retrofits are projected to reduce fuel consumption and corresponding emissions by at least 6.5%.

The Promas Lite systems,…

CM Technologies (CMT) is working with major shipowners to help them meet carbon reduction targets using its new cloud-based engine performance analysis tool. Leading operators in Europe, the US, and Singapore are trialling CMT’s PREMET Cloud platform…

Real-time connections are generating major benefits in raising operational efficiency across the global merchant fleet but the ship repair business still works on a reactive maintenance model, says ship repair executive Arran Dall. Speaking at a ship…