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05 NOV 2024  Yanmar, a leader in the design and manufacture of advanced performance diesel engines, is introducing a new option, the 12AYEM engine, to its line of purpose-built heavy-duty marine propulsion applications. Building on the company’s successful 12AYEM series, the new 12AYEM brings more options to customers who require emissions-regulated …

03 NOV 2024  With advancements in nuclear engineering and the development of many types of advanced nuclear reactors, ABS concludes in a new report that there are many opportunities to implement the technology for commercial ship propulsion. While the work remains at a high level, they conceptualized the potential hazards …

01 NOV 2024  The iconic Floating Instrument Platform, known as “FLIP” because of its unique capacity to operate in either a vertical or horizontal configuration, has been saved from scrapping and is now in France where it is being modernized to start a new phase of its research missions. The …

31 OCT 2024 The Panama Canal’s profit increased about 9.5% in the fiscal year ended in September to $3.45 billion despite a severe drought that reduced the number of vessels that passed through the waterway, its authority said on Friday. Adverse weather conditions that reduced water available for the canal …

31 OCT 2024 The MV Ruby, a cargo ship carrying a significant amount of potentially explosive fertilizer, is set to dock at the Port of Great Yarmouth on Monday, October 28, Peel Ports Group has confirmed. The move comes after weeks of uncertainty and concerns over the ship’s hazardous cargo. …

30 OCT 2024 Two cargo ships have been making international headlines as they were shunned by ports and were being treated as “pariahs” endangering public welfare. Both ships, the Malta-registered general cargo ship Ruby and the Portugal-registered Kathrin, have been stuck holding offshore while they struggled to resolve issues and …