Shipbuilding and Shipyards

DNV’s Maritime Academy Course -Site Teams’ Quality Control Inspections in the Shipbuilding Yard

Site Teams’ Quality Control Inspections in the Shipbuilding Yard

DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 27 and 28 March 2025, a course on how to establish a reliable site team in order to achieve quality control inspections..

Course Objectives

To enrich the capabilities and knowledge of all participants, to establish an effective and reinforced site-team to respond to all complicated and specialized requirements of any N/B project (regardless the previous experience of the participants, or...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/10/dnvs-maritime-academy-course-site-teams-quality-control-inspections-in-the-shipbuilding-yard-2/

Of Nuts and Bolts*

by John Faraclas

The best ever global social event of its kind over the last 40 years in the British capital – the administrative capital of Shipping, was by far, the 30th Anniversary Ball of HESGB at the iconic West End venue JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane, adjacent to Hyde Park.

842: the pin number unlocking success!

Breaking all previous records with 842 members, friends and guests from just over 40 nations:

  • a warm welcome and registration from twelve young volunteers supervised by...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/03/of-nuts-and-bolts/

International Windship Association launches new survey to gauge perception of low/zero emission vessels and wind propulsion technology

London, 26th February 2025: With the number of ships using direct wind energy for propulsion increasing at a rate of knots, perceptions of wind propulsion technology are seemingly changing in the shipping industry, a sector which, until the middle of the 19th Century, relied solely on sail.

The potential of wind energy to rapidly decarbonise the shipping industry by enabling the realisation of low or zero emission vessels is well-known. However, barriers to the large-scale adoption of wind...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/26/international-windship-association-launches-new-survey-to-gauge-perception-of-low-zero-emission-vessels-and-wind-propulsion-technology/

Lloyd’s Register awards Atlas Elektronik UK the first UMS certificate issued to a naval minehunter 

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK’s RNMB Hydra USV is the first mine countermeasures vessel to be awarded LR’s Unmanned Marine Systems (UMS) Certification. 

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded Unmanned Marine Systems (UMS) Certification to ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK) for its RNMB Hydra vessel, an uncrewed UK Royal Navy surface vessel designed for mine sweeping and mine hunting tasks.  

This certification follows LR awarding AEUK with Grey Boat Code certification for RNMB Hydra last year.  

The 11-metre long RNMB...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/25/lloyds-register-awards-atlas-elektronik-uk-the-first-ums-certificate-issued-to-a-naval-minehunter/

100 Top women in Shipping for 2024 by allaboutshipping.co.uk – Results

Dr. Akanksha Batura Pai

by Anny Zade

Good morning / good evening to all all over Planet Ocean; here below are the results of the 100 Top Women in Shipping for 2024 by www.allaboutshipping.co.uk. Given what takes place around planet ocean with geopolitical instability – you haven’t seen anything yet, we thank all participants in this unique voting – as it turned upside everything from our previous events, and we shall revert with more info and news on the first update.

Many Congratulations to all...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/19/100-top-women-in-shipping-for-2024-by-allaboutshipping-co-uk-results/

 Type Approval Test Marks Important Milestone for Methanol GenSet

Dual-Fuel methanol MAN L21/31DF-M engine passes milestone in China

Copenhagen, 18.02.2025

MAN Energy Solutions reports that its MAN 7L21/31DF-M (Dual Fuel-Methanol) GenSet has successfully passed its Type Approval Test (TAT) in China. The TAT was carried out in close cooperation with CSSC Marine Power (CMP) – the MAN Energy Solutions licensee – at CMP’s production facility in Zhenjiang and received approval from all major classification societies present at the event.

The basis for the new...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/18/type-approval-test-marks-important-milestone-for-methanol-genset/

TideWise’s 24-metre uncrewed surface vessel receives LR AiP

l to r: Hugo Canella, LR Account Manager, Brazil, Ingrid Targa, UMOVe Project Manager, and Rafael Coelho, TideWise CEO.

Autonomous USV will undertake offshore subsea inspection operations.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has granted Approval in Principle (AiP) to Brazilian company TideWise for its 24-metre uncrewed surface vessel (USV), designed for offshore subsea inspection operations at depths of up to 2,500 metres.

The AiP confirms the vessel’s structural integrity, stability, and compliance with...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/13/tidewises-24-metre-uncrewed-surface-vessel-receives-lr-aip/

Wärtsilä and Elomatic sign licensing and cooperation agreement on Elogrid™ technology

Wärtsilä and Elomatic have signed a licensing and cooperation agreement covering the intellectual property rights, technology, and use of trademark of Elomatic’s unique Elogrid solution © Elomatic

Wärtsilä Corporation, 12 February 2025 at 10:00 EET – Technology group Wärtsilä and international consulting and engineering company Elomatic have signed a licensing and cooperation agreement covering the intellectual property rights, technology, and use of trademark of Elomatic’s unique Elogrid...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/12/wartsila-and-elomatic-sign-licensing-and-cooperation-agreement-on-elogrid-technology/

Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen and Rossilini’s Four-10 sign REV Ocean outfitting contract

On February 6, 2025 Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV) and Rossilini’s Four-10 signed a contract for the outfitting of the REV Ocean. The contract covers both the interior and exterior of the state-of-the-art research and expedition vessel. The workscope will take place in DSV’s covered drydock.

When completed, REV Ocean will conduct research covering the entire marine ecosystem, from the coastal zone to abyssal depths, and from polar regions to the tropics. The 194.4 by 22 metre vessel will...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/11/damen-shiprepair-vlissingen-and-rossilinis-four-10-sign-rev-ocean-outfitting-contract/

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