CARGO HANDLING Wärtsilä Hamworthy is providing the LPG cargo handling equipment for four new LPG tankers that could pioneer the use of LPG as bunker fuel. HCB interviewed Stein Thoresen, the company’s business unit director for LPG
A team from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) will conduct a ‘special surveillance’ audit of Odfjell Terminals (Rotterdam) BV (OTR), starting Tuesday, August 7.
PREVIEW With at least 24 exhibiting companies, the International Tank Container Organisation’s presence at this year’s Transport Logistic China trade show will be one of the group’s largest so far
INLAND WATERWAYS With multimodal issues being discussed by the joint experts, the ADN Safety Committee contents itself mainly with issues related to vessel design and operation.
New guidance for gas DESIGN Two new systems have been launched to address the calculation of sloshing loads in membrane tanks, while a new flexible hose promises to improve the safety and performance of offshore cryogenic gas transfer
The first session of the Administrative Committee of the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterway (ADN) took place in Geneva this past June 19.
Lloyd’s Register (LR) chief executive Richard Sadler spoke about .." a need for an extra 400 handysize tankers, a total of 12.5m dwt, by 2030 to cope with the amount of biofuel we can expect from growing rates of production."
Athens was a busy place in June. A combination of tourists, Olympic delegates and shipping tycoons and, more noticeably, the taxis filled the streets, bringing an estimated €55m to the region in three days.
The announcement earlier this month that Thailand's PTT has signed a heads of agreement with Qatargas relating to the supply of LNG to its proposed receiving terminal at Map Ta Phut comes
