A colleague of mine recently attended a Caterpiller customer day. In the following links are the presentations given. Unsure if they will be of any benefit, but I hope someone will gain something useful from them. Emissions and Product Review http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34942765/Dieselduck/CAT%20Custome...

Earlier this year Wartsila held a small event for superintendents in Copenhagen to highlight and discuss the latest green tech and future legislation. Hope that some of your find this interesting/useful. Ballast Water Treatment http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34942765/Dieselduck/Wartsila%20Green%20tech%20da...

I've managed to find a way to put the technical papers and presentations given at the recent MAN Diesel ME-GI engine launch on the forum. If you want your own dropbox, you can use the following link, this will give us both a little extra space. http://db.tt/hTECJrb Presentations http://dl.dropbox.co...

The Sinking of the HMS Rawalpindiby - 23 Nov RealTimeWWIIWW2 Tweets from 1939: HMS Rawalpindi, converted British passenger ship with 10 small guns, has spotted an enemy ship near Faroe Islands RealTimeWWIIWW2 Tweets from 1939: British misled by thick fog. They've spotted- and been spotted by- German...

If the refineries are producing more profitable products the amount of fuel available to ships will reduce and prices will rise further. The combined fuel bill for Maersk Line (Containers) and Maersk Tankers last year was in the region of 4,5 Billion USDs. Almost all of the cost per container moved ...

Lloyds List 28th September 2011 THE growing interest in natural gas-powered shipping has led the Dutch shipowner Anthony Veder to order a new coastal liquefied natural gas tanker from Germany’s Meyer Werft. The company already has one vessel, Coral Methane, and while it was built with the capabiliti...

Lloyds List 31st October 2011 VESSELS operating in Northern Europe could be using up to 4m tonnes of liquid natural gas as a fuel by 2020, with up to 11 new LNG export or bunker terminals being developed in the region. The prediction, from a provisional baseline report of research commissioned by th...

Just taken this from Lloyds list - published 10th November 2011 Liquefied natural gas is the fuel of the future, but there are potential drawbacks ONE of the most compelling challenges that the containership industry will have to face in the near future will be to further reduce its greenhouse gas e...

We've started talking about LNG as a fuel, but what other alternatives are out there for cheap fuel? Fancy burning Bitumin in your engines? This was in Lloyds list just over 1 month ago. NEXT month the boxship Sorø Maersk will make history by becoming the first commercial vessel that will burn a fue...

I havent seen any comments on here about the announcement from Maersk a few months ago, when they decided to order 20 x 18 000 TEU container vessels. With a market which already has huge over capacity, this is a bold move. They are designed specifically for trading between the Far East and Europe. A...

Several months back I was fortunate enough to attend the launch of the MAN Diesel ME-GI engine. It is a electronically controlled engine designed to run on LNG. During the launch they demonstrated the engine starting on fuel, changing over to gas operation, and then running up to full load. Once at ...

There are so many variables to this question that it will be very hard to find two people that can agree on a answer. I can only speak from a commercial perspective; Every company, every vessel will be influenced by that companies core business, where the vessel trades, and their own experience. Som...

I know that this will be a little off topic, but I think that this is a worthwhile project. Which hopefully gets the history of World War Two to a few more people, especially the younger generation. I am unsure how many of you out there have fully embraced modern technology and have your own twitter...

For UK flagged vessels the "Masters rounds" are required to be entered into the official log book. The requirement comes from a Merchant Shipping Act. What legistlation, if any, required this to be placed into UK law I do not know. The latest UK version is below. The Merchant Shipping (Cre...

I've sailed with CIP systems twice, once when I was Fourth engineer and again when I was Second. If you have good quality water and no issues with the water side of the bowl scaling up then the CIP machine can have benefits. We used to operate the CIP machine when the bowl was due a clean and then n...