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FEBRUARY 7, 2019 — StormGeo and DNV GL have agreed to consolidate their fleet performance solutions. The agreement will combine DNV GL’s ECO Insight and Navigator Insight solutions with StormGeo’s FleetDSS and ship reporting solutions.

The combination of these solutions will result in a new offering to the shipping industry, under the StormGeo banner, that will be able to provide a complete fleet performance portfolio, including route advisory, navigation and planning, and fleet performance...

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019 — VeriFuel, part of Bureau Veritas, is urging the marine bunker sector, upstream supply chain, and fuel testing organizations, to embrace a new culture in preparation for 2020 and beyond.

“With under a year to go until the 2020 sulfur cap regulation comes into force, the marine fuel supply chain must band together and use this as an opportunity to help dispel increasingly outdated bunker fuel delivery processes and procedures,” says Charlotte Røjgaard, Bureau Veritas’ Global...

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019 — Schoellhorn-Albrecht, St. Louis, MO, recently completed a contract to design and manufacture a Vertical Anchor Windlass and Thru Deck Capstan for the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s newest icebreaking tug.

The windlass was designed to ABS standards for a minimum design temperature of -25F°. Testing and certification was witnessed by ABS in the company’s St. Louis facility.

The Thru-Deck Capstan features a variable frequency drive (VFD) control package, a right...

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019 — Compliance with ballast water management regulations depends on crew knowledge as well as installation of the appropriate ballast water treatment system itself. To help customers secure the needed crew competence, Alfa Laval is expanding its Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 training program by offering with crew training in Houston, Manila and Mumbai.

Alfa Laval will begin PureBallast 3 crew training courses in the three strategically located sites during the first and second quarters...

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019 — Corvus Energy Holding AS, a leading supplier of marine industry Energy Storage Systems (ESS), has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Skien, Norway, based Grenland Energy AS.

Grenland develops and manufactures lightweight lithium-ion batteries for the maritime, offshore and subsea industries and Corvus recognized synergies between the two companies.

“We knew that Grenland Energy had technology that would accelerate our long-term strategy by complementing and...

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019 — Celebrity Cruises has signed a four-year service agreement with Espoo, Finland, headquartered Valmet covering the Valmet DNA integrated automation systems onboard four Millennium-class vessels in the United States.

Valmet says the agreement will enhance the performance, safety and availability of the automation systems as well as continuously improve the data analytics available onboard the four vessels: Celebrity Millennium, Celebrity Infinity, Celebrity Summit and Celebrity...

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019 — Athens headquartered dry bulk specialist Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX) reports that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Phaethon International Company AG, for one of its Panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Danae.

The gross charter rate is $8,100 per day, minus a 5% commission paid to third parties, for a period of minimum eleven months to maximum fourteen ) months. The charter is expected to commence later today.

The...

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019 — Britain’s Wight Shipyard Co has delivered a major export order: A 250-passenger river catamaran for Central Danube Region Marketing & Development GmbH’s Twin City Liner – a tourist service running on the River Danube between Vienna and Bratislava, joining two European capital cities.

Delivery of the 39.99 m x 11.4 m cat follows a productive 2018 for the Isle of Wight shipyard with successful deliveries of a second 41 m high speed passenger ferry to Red Funnel and a 21 m day...

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019 — VesselsValue.com has released its rankings of the top ten shipping nations in terms of fleet asset value. The U.S. has fallen to sixth place, largely because a fall in the asset value of OSVs controlled by U.S. companies. Greece holds the number one spot, while China comes in at number three after adding $6.3 billion in asset values.

Here are VesselsValue’s listings and analyses:

#1 Greece

The Greek fleet has increased its total value by over $5 billion in one year. This is the...

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