Tag: eco-friendly ships

Three companies have teamed up to bring the first ever Reverse Stern Drive (RSD) Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) tug to the market.

On June 4 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) delivered the cargo-passenger ship "Tachibana-Maru" to Tokai Kisen at its Shimonoseki Shipyard and Machinery Works.

Greek shipowners' spending in new buildings and retrofits of existing fleet has attracted the global maritime community to Athens once again with the leading ship building nations lining up to showcase their goods at the Posidonia exhibition

Ardmore Shipping Corporation announced the acquisition of a 49,997 Dwt Eco-design product and chemical tanker built in July 2013 at STX Offshore & Shipbuilding

Ardmore Shipping Corporation announced the acquisition of a 49,997 Dwt Eco-design product and chemical tanker built in July 2013 at STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., South Korea, for a purchase price of $36 million.

Ship Finance announced the agreement to acquire two 82,000 dwt Kamsarmax dry-bulk carriers built in 2012

BW has signed a purchase agreement to acquire ten chemical tankers that will be delivered between 2015 and 2018 from Stream Tankers

Ensuring that the actual ship delivered is as good as its design DNV GL has launched a new service named Build2Design to help shipyards and shipowners improve the fuel economy of their ships by reducing variations in their building process.Significant improvements have been achieved in the design of more fuel-efficient ships in recent years. The performance of these Eco-Ship designs has been documented by both Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and tank testing and some designs have also proven their performance in operation. However, questions have been raised about variations in performance and research has now shown a wide variation in different ships of the same design."We have compiled data that shows there is a large variation in fuel consumption between ships of the same design. This has led us to develop a new service, Build2Design, which aims at ensuring that the actual ship delivered is as good as its design," says Michael Aasland, Business Director for Bulk Carriers at DNV GL.Dr Olav Rognebakke, Head of Hydrodynamics at DNV GL, adds: "Build2Design is based on a solid theoretical foundation combined with the latest technology and uses advanced CFD calculations to identify the parameters that affect fuel consumption and the effect of ...

Stream Tankers AS, based in Bergen (Norway) has increased its orders to five 19,900 dwt. newbuildings with Fukuoka Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and Shitanoe Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Japan.

Kyokuyo Shipyard Corporation received, on December 27, 2013, an order for a 540TEU container carrier from Kobe-based Imoto Lines, Ltd.