Retail facilities on P&O Cruises Australia’s cruise ship Pacific Dawn have been upgraded after a major logistics exercise by Southampton marine outfitters Trimline. Trimline Sales and Marketing Director Mike Oliver: “It was one of the biggest logistical exercises that we have completed and getting 40 personnel and 14 containers of equipment to the other side of the world required considerable planning.” (more…)

Future Pipe Industries Group (FPI) and its Swedish contractor Scanunit are to replace 1200 m of steel pipe per ship with glass fiber reinforced epoxy pipe systems (GRE) onboard the Atle and Frej icebreakers. Just one year after FPI and Scanunit started their collaboration, the Swedish Maritime Association granted this big order. Both 22,000bhp icebreakers measure 104 m overall and feature a beam of 23.5 m. (more…)

Wärtsilä has signed a major contract with the A.P. Moller Maersk Group (APMM). The order covers the installation of Wärtsilä Slow Steaming Upgrade Kits to 34 more of the company’s large container vessels, following the successful installation and testing on one of the fleet’s sister vessels in late 2009. Slow steaming has become a recognized means of operating in order to reduce fuel consumption. (more…)

In May Cargotec secured two more conversion contracts from Stena RoRo, on behalf of Stena Line, for two RoPax vessels, the 26,663GT Stena Trader and the 26,663GT Stena Traveller. These new orders are a continuation of four other Stena conversion contracts that Cargotec secured earlier in April. (more…)

Wencon from Denmark, who are primarily known for providing epoxy-based repair kits for emergency repairs aboard the world’s merchant fleet, have during 2009 focused on finding, training and certifying marine-oriented workshops, in some of the world’s major ports around the world, to perform durable repairs with epoxy. (more…)