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Shipbuilding

Visser Shipping Installs Scrubber in Boxships

Netherlands-based Visser Shipping has signed a contract with exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) supplier Value Maritime to outfit three container ships with scrubbers, with an option for a fourth scrubber. In 1995 Visser…

Shipbuilding

Valmet to Supply Scrubber Systems to DSME

Finnish technology company Valmet Oyj will supply exhaust gas cleaning system (scrubber system) for seven new building container vessels, which will be built in South Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering…

Shipbuilding

Sri Lanka, Korea Pact on BWMS

Sri Lanka's leading ship repair, ship building, heavy engineering and offshore engineering facility Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) inked an agreement with PANASIA, Korea as a partner for Ballast Water Management Systems…

Environmental

Scrubber Safe for Environment: Carnival

Carnival Corporation has released the results of an independent, two-year scientific scrubber wash-water study. The study shows the company’s advanced air quality systems (i.e. scrubbers) are in compliance with the…

Technology

Lloyds Approves New Scrubber Technology

The Netherlands-based Value Maritime has received the International Air Pollution Prevention (IAPP) certificate from Lloyds for its scrubber system. A press release from the engineering and ship financing company said…

Container Ships

ICE Bags Scrubber Retrofit Contract

Europe's largest independent ship design company International Contract Engineering (ICE) announced that it has won new contracts for scrubber retrofit design services for a series of container vessels for a leading…

Shipbuilding

MSC Secures Scrubber Loan For 86 Vessels

Container shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has secured a USD 439 million financing to fit 86 exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) or scrubbers to its fleet. BNP Paribas (BNPP) was the co-ordinating bank…

Environmental

Seanergy, Charterers Take the Scrubber Plunge

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. entered into commercial agreements for the installation of exhaust gas cleaning systems on five of its capesize bulk carriers -- M/V Partnership, M/V Lordship, M/V Premiership, M/V…