Zelim’s Swift man-overboard (MOB) recovery system, comprising a technology not unlike a conveyor belt for scooping people out of the water, is garnering increasing attention in recent months. It has won more business this week with the retrofit…

Cortec is calling on shipowners to pay more attention to damp corrosion in vessel control rooms.

In engine rooms, where the risk of corrosion is well understood, ventilation systems are overbuilt to protect against fire risk, and components are…

Norway’s Odfjell is to deploy Syroco weather routing on Bow Olympus and Bow Optima, two vessels each about to be retrofitted with four bound4blue suction sails.

Odfjell expects that the weather routing capability will be able to optimise utilisation…

China repair yard Yiu Lian Dockyards, in Shenzhen, has signed an MoU with Silverstream to add air lubrication retrofit installations to its portfolio.

Silverstream systems use a layer of air micro-bubbles to reduce friction between the hull and…