Underwater rudder repair in the Shetland Islands We received an enquiry for a rudder repair on a 120-meter trawler. The ship was operating off the coast of the Shetland Islands…
Damen Shiprepair and Alfa Laval Benelux have signed a memorandum of understanding to intensify their cooperation on energy efficiency in the maritime industry. The partnership brings together two key players…
Fincantieri is pleased to share its interim financial results for the first quarter of 2025, showcasing impressive growth across all business segments and achieving its best ever quarter in terms…
When Ecospeed coatings were being developed, Subsea Industries simply searched for the best protective coating for marine applications, period. This logically led to the type of thick, highly corrosion resistant…
Hydrex diving teams regularly carry out cold straightenings, croppings and other propeller blade modifications when a ship has a damaged propeller. For the operations in this article, they traveled to…
In a significant milestone for the company, Thordon Bearings has seen its RiverTough tailshaft bearing solution surpass 500 installations in the workboat sector. Primarily a retrofit solution but also increasingly…
We received an enquiry for a rudder repair on a 120-meter trawler. The ship was operating off the coast of the Shetland Islands when a defect occurred on its flap…
STEELPAINT SECURES MAJOR 39-VESSEL ORDER FOR STELPANT CORROSION PROTECTION SYSTEM German coatings firm Steelpaint GmbH has secured a major order to supply its specialist Stelpant system for application to 20…
Aegean Protective Coatings S.A., representative of PPG in Greece, proudly announces the successful completion of a pioneering coating project during the dry docking of the 150K DWT crude oil tanker…
BLASTING & COATING ACTIVITIES / CORROSION CONTROLS DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 29-30 April 2025 a course on blasting and coating activities as well as corrosion controls. Participants will be given detailed…
Gibdock, Gibraltar’s premier shipyard for naval and government vessels, successfully hosted an exclusive Defence Ship Repair Event at the House of Commons last night, bringing together key stakeholders from Government, industry,…
by John Faraclas The best ever global social event of its kind over the last 40 years in the British capital – the administrative capital of Shipping, was by far,…
The most powerful Shipping society outside Greece is by far the HESGB (Hellenic Engineers Society of Great Britain), which earlier on today elected its new Governing Committee. It’s charitable status…
New people and new premises – a successful start to 2025. SMS Group has welcomed David McCarthy as Operations Director to its newly acquired interior outfit and marine refurbishment headquarters…
John Faraclas on ERT’s global radio station “The Voice of Greece”, in the program “Greeks Everywhere”, with Thanos Choupis who interviewed him on the ragging wars and others about to…
Two parts of the tip of one of the four propeller blades of a 190-meter bulker were damaged. They needed to be cropped to restore the propeller’s efficiency. We therefore…
HullWiper’s sustainable hull cleaning solution is coming to Singapore. The company has signed a lease agreement with Unidive Subsea to bring its eco-friendly Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) hull cleaning technology…
In an exclusive interview with AllAboutShipping’s John Faraclas, Ioannis Chiotopoulos Senior Vice President & Regional Manager South East Europe, Middle East and Africa at DNV for nearly ten years, responds…
BLASTING & COATING ACTIVITIES / CORROSION CONTROLS DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 3 to 4 December 2024 a course on blasting and coating activities as well as corrosion controls. Participants will be…
Recently we mobilized our diver/technician teams to vessels in Colombia and Australia to carry out stern tube seal replacements. In Cartagena the repair was carried out on a 294-meter tanker,…
Agreement expands access to retrofit installations of Silverstream’s air lubrication technology LONDON, 12 November 2024: Silverstream Technologies, a maritime clean technology company specialising in air lubrication systems, has signed a memorandum…
As a member of CirclesOfLife, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform is pleased to share the consortium’s latest press release and eager to invite you to join us in building a more sustainable maritime sector.…
Lloyd’s Register awards maritime industry’s first enhanced antifouling type approval to GIT Coatings
LR is the first classification society to offer this service, which provides a new standard for antifouling coatings and their performance in keeping hulls clean and sustainable. Lloyd’s Register (LR)…
Due to decarbonization measures being undertaken in the industry, DNV has recently experienced an increase in the number of fixed-pitch propeller retrofits. The end-to-end retrofit process has a short timeframe…