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The €2.0 billion order for six U 214 submarine material packages placed with ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems by the Republic of Turkey has entered into force with receipt of the advance payment. As a longstanding partner and supplier to the Turkish Navy, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems can now begin executing the order. The order will contribute to securing employment at HDW in Kiel, as well as at many subcontractors in Germany and Turkey, for the next ten years.

The €2.0 billion order for six U 214 submarine material packages placed with ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems by the Republic of Turkey has entered into force with receipt of the advance payment. As a longstanding partner and supplier to the Turkish Navy, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems can now begin executing the order. The order will contribute to securing employment at HDW in Kiel, as well as at many subcontractors in Germany and Turkey, for the next ten years.

The tradition-rich manufacturer MWM from Mannheim, Germany, is considered one of the world's leading specialists in the production, sale, and servicing of gas gensets for decentralised energy supply. The MWM container line, which is deployed worldwide in the natural gas, biogas

Looking back on a long tradition, Mannheim-based MWM is one of the world's leading providers of decentralised energy generation plants. The various genset series are designed for operation with natural gas or special gas types like sewage gas, biogas, and landfill gas. The company considers the ongoing development and optimisation of the individual engine series as an important contribution to increased efficiency and conservation of resources.

Plant operator Magnox will shut down Reactor 2 at the Oldbury Power Station in South Gloucestershire, UK, as it has reached the end of its operational life.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has granted £20m to fund the development of enhanced marine devices that are able to reduce carbon emissions.

China Sunergy will invest CNY1.8bn ($278m) in its 1GW solar cells expansion project in Yangzhou, China.

Siemens has secured a contract worth $800m from DONG Energy and Scottish Power Renewables to construct an offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea.

Participants at the recently concluded workshop on Shipping and Trade Facilitation held in Abuja have frowned at the exploitation of Nigerian shippers’ by foreign

The growing menace of hijacking and kidnapping by Somali pirates has governments around the world desperate for a solution, with British MPs again discussing the issue.

The world's largest container shipper Maersk Line expects the seasonal peak in volumes to start later this year on its key Asia-Europe routes, but still hopes rising demand and

In 2003 Seagull developed an onboard ECDIS training concept. This concept provides the required theoretical and practical knowledge in the use of Electronic Chart Display

Shipowners are scrapping capesize vessels at a record pace after rates plunged about 50 percent in a year. It’s still not enough to end losses.Forty-eight capesizes, usually used

Many in shipping have been looking for clues as to industry’s regulatory future in the election this week of a new chief of International Maritime Organization (IMO), Japan’s Koji Sekimizu, currently director of the IMO's maritime safety division. On the thorny issue of

EU officials believe that a global deal to cut maritime carbon emissions is currently unachievable and are instead talking up an initiative by the Bahamas to regulate

Leading classification society ClassNK has announced that it will reorganize its Board of Directors as part of a larger corporate reorganization effective July 1, 2011.

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange, which started trading container freight derivatives on June 28, is asking the Chinese government to relax regulations to allow China’s

OceanSchedules.com said it is launching an automated schedule service for shippers and forwarders based on data from INTTRA.The company said the service,

OW Bunker, a supplier and trader of marine fuel, has launched a free application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.This app, claimed to be the first ever from

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) and Intertanko believe they can help cut 40% of CO2 emissions in EU Maritime Transport by 2050 though