Environment

The U.S. Coast Guard is tightening its vigilance on ships that may infringe MARPOL regulations, the American P&I Club has warned its members. The club's managers warn that there has been a "significant increase" in Coast Guard activity relating to oily water separators and associated electronic monitoring equipment. Coast Guard officers have been ...

Jeffrey Lantz, director of the Coast Guard's Office of Commercial Regulations and Standards, says that a just-released final rule on ballast water discharge will protect the marine environment and is consistent with the IMO discharge standard. The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday that the final rule for standards for living ...

Carnival Corporation's AIDA Cruises subsidiary has released more details about the two 3,250 passenger cruise ships that it has on order at the Nagasaki Shipyard of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for delivery in 2015 and 2016.AIDA management and the shipbuilder have taken a number of technical decisions that will imp ...

In an Oslo Stock Exchange announcement today, Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA said before tax profits would take a $15 million hit as a result of a decision by its subsidiary Wilhelmsen Technical Solution AS to withdraw the current design of the Unitor Ballast Water Treatment System (UBWTS) from the market.Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions announced that decision Fe ...

The news that an ME-GI principle LNG-fired engine will be demonstrated next year by MOL and Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. (see earlier story) is one of several indications of growing interest in the technology.The ME-GI engine is a gas-inject ...

U.S.-flag containership operator Horizon Lines, Inc., (OTCQB: HRZL) has issued an update on its efforts to mitigate environmental impact from shipping operations and intermodal transport."Ensuring sustained environmental protection has always been a mission at Horizon Lines," said Stephen H. Fraser, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our approach emphasizes e ...

Wärtsilä has launched a new medium voltage power drive. The product will enable the delivery of electro and automation systems for large, electric propulsion vessels, such as drilling rigs and tankers, large passenger and cruise ships, various offshore service vessels, as well as compressors and pumps for the oil and ...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) is to temporarily convert the Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.(MES) slow speed diesel of one of its newbuildings into a ME-GI (electronically-controlled gas injection) engine. The engine has been designed, manufactured and delivered to the shipyard with oil injection specifications, but will be temporarily modified and will be run with vaporized L ...