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Great Lakes Steamship Repower Incentive Program
AGENCY : Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION : Direct final rule. SUMMARY : EPA is taking direct final action to simplify an existing provision in our marine diesel engine program that is intended to encourage…
Drydocks World Building Wind Power Offshore Platform
The environment friendly Wind Power Offshore Platform will help to reduce three million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year . Drydocks World has announced that it has entered into a contract with Aibel, the…
Hamworthy Krystallon, HHI Contract for Scrubber System
Solvang ASA, through Hyundai Heavy Industries, orders system for 84,000 cbm LPG carrier as three-year countdown to 2015 ECA approaches. Hamworthy Krystallon, the leading marine scrubbing technology manufacturer, today…
Project Seeks to Increase Energy Efficiency in Offshore Shipping
A project has been established to identify energy efficiency and fuel saving initiatives for the offshore shipping industry. The partnership involves a collaboration of seven Norwegian offshore shipping companies. The…
Owners Warned: Pay Heed to Turkish SOX Regs
OW Bunker highlighted the potential safety issues that ship owners and operators will face in Turkish waters when new local sulfur legislation comes into force from January 1, 2012. The ruling, delivered by the Turkish…
LR Statutory Alert: Bio-Fuels
Statutory alert: Changes to the requirements for the carriage of blends of petroleum oil and bio-fuels. Applicabilty: All owners, operators and charterers of vessels carrying MARPOL bio-fuels and bio-fuel blend cargoes…
Ship Emissions First: Commercial Scrubber System in Operation
Hamworthy Krystallon announced that the first of four vessels installed with the company’s seawater scrubbers for Italian ship owner Ignazio Messina & Co has come on line. Linea Messina is reported to be the first ever…
