Greater regulatory certainty and a burgeoning bunkering infrastructure worldwide means the conditions could not be better for LNG-fuelled vessels to set sail, says Cristina Saenz de Santa Maria, regional manager Southeast Asia, Pacific & India...
One of the events kicking-off Singapore Maritime Week (SMW) 2018 will be the Amazing Maritime Challenge, a game-based event designed to reach out to the general public.
Forty-four finalists for the Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia 2018 have convinced an independent panel of judges of their well-deserving achievements over the past year.
With more than three months to go till opening day of Posidonia on 4 June, the event is shaping up to be a true celebration of everything shipping stands for.
There are many competing technologies but ABB believes that the future of green shipping could be to have a single main electric platform to drive all the vessel’s systems.
Continuing to develop its LNG as a marine fuel business GTT and its partner Technolog have received General Approval and Ship Application (GASA) from DNV GL to retrofit of very large container vessels (VLCs) with exoskeleton membrane LNG tanks.
The drive for cost-efficiency and the slow steaming trend in the current shipping market makes it the perfect environment for ABB’s FiTS2 turbocharger system which it has developed in collaboration with engine maker Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD)...
The interest of countries in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar and other similar stage countries is that they are going through a rapid development phase now and there is a need to boost infrastructure.