Tag: ferries

Caterpillar Marine and Cat Dealer Pon Power announced the first Cat 3512C marine generator sets with Dynamic Gas Blending

The all-electric car ferry "ZeroCat 120" owned by Norled AS was given Skipsrevyen's prestigious SHIP OF THE YEAR 2014 award

The UK MAIB has issued Accident Investigation Report No.20 on the The falling overboard and recovery of a young child from the passenger ferry SNOWDROP

MacGregor has received a contract from Stena to convert the 29,800gt RoPax ferry Dieppe Seaways to optimise it for its new route

Exemptions from the forthcoming ballast-water convention for ferries When the IMO's environment committee, the MEPC, next meets in October, exemptions from the forthcoming ballast-water convention for ferries and others will be discussed at Denmark's behest.Danish shipping companies have invested billions of kroner in green technology in recent years and are prepared to make even greater investments as a result of forthcoming environmental regulation measures. But regulation must benefit the environment or else the investment becomes meaningless.This applies to ballast water, an area in which the international IMO convention is expected to receive the required support this year, enabling it to enter into force 12 months later.As the land lies currently, the convention will cover all international shipping, including, therefore, for example, the 4 km-long ferry route between Helsingør in Denmark and Helsingborg in Sweden.The legislation makes good sense for long international routes, but not for ferry traffic and other small-scale local shipping, according to Peter Olsen, who is Head of Secretariat for the Danish Car Ferry Association, and responsible for ballast water at the Shipowners' Associations."There is a risk of imposing a financial burden of several million kroner per ship without there being any demonstrated risk presented by spreading seawater ...

USCG rescue crews assisted the crew and passengers aboard the Provincetown IV Ferry, which was disabled near Scituate, Massachusetts, Wednesday

Liquiline and Fjord Line have entered into a contract on design, construct and commission an LNG ship bunkering terminal for Fjord Line

Nautilus International has condemned UK government plans to revoke four shipping safety regulations introduced in response to recommendations made by the formal investigation into the 1987 Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster

EBDG has been selected by NYC DOT to design a new class of ferries that will operate between the boroughs of Staten Island and Manhattan

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has just won an order for six MTU diesel engines which will be used to propel three double-ended ferries in Turkey