Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has awarded Type Approval to WinGD’s fuel-saving Variable Compression Ratio (VCR) technology. The VCR system enables marine dual-fuel engines to optimise compression ratios according to the fuel being used – thereby helping to improve efficiency and reduce fuel consumption. The system works by altering the piston position to adjust the combustion chamber volume and therefore the compression ratio. Dominik Schneiter, Chief Executive Officer of WinGD, said: ‘WinGD’s VCR technology represents a major breakthrough in marine engine innovation. By dynamically adjusting the compression ratio according to engine load, VCR enables our X-DF engines to deliver […]

BIMCO says that its Energy Saving Device Retrofit Addendum will provide a new contractual framework that can ‘facilitate the installation of energy saving devices during the period of a time charter’. In a statement posted on its website today (21 October), the shipping association said that the Addendum will ‘provide owners and charterers with a flexible mechanism for agreeing how the costs, time, fuel-saving benefits and environmental benefits associated with retrofit projects should be allocated between them’. BIMCO said that the Addendum – which has been ‘deliberately drafted as a technology-neutral framework capable of accommodating a broad range of current […]

Wilhelmsen Ship Management has welcomed the latest methanol dual-fuel Shaper Class pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) to its managed fleet. The Royal Tern follows the delivery of the Arctic Tern that was completed in July. In addition to its methanol dual-fuel propulsion, the Royal Tern features a range of technologies designed to support energy efficiency and environmental performance, including an air lubrication system, energy storage battery system and AMP shore power connection. ‘We wish Royal Tern and her crew fair winds and following seas,’ Wilhelmsen Ship Management said in a social media post today (19 October). As previously reported by […]