{"id":3555,"date":"2019-10-26T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2019-10-26T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:27:13","slug":"30-asiatic-lloyd-containerships-to-feature-optimarin-bwt-systems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/30-asiatic-lloyd-containerships-to-feature-optimarin-bwt-systems-2\/3555\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Asiatic Lloyd Containerships to Feature Optimarin BWT Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Singapore-based shipping company Asiatic Lloyd has decided to equip its entire fleet with ballast water treatment systems (BWTSs).&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As informed, Asiatic Lloyd Shipmanagement recently signed a fleet agreement with Norway\u2019s BWTS provider Optimarin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contract encompasses 30 Optimarin Ballast Systems (OBS) that would be installed across the shipping company\u2019s fleet of 1,000-9,000 TEU containerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The retrofit will be carried out from late 2019 to 2022, according to Optimarin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the third quarter of this year, Optimarin reported a year-on-year increase in sales of more than 100%, with order intake at an all-time high. The growth, consolidating the trend seen in the previous quarter, comes on the back of a number of new agreements with ship owners and operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cSeptember\u2019s IMO&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/284699\/bwm-convention-amendments-enter-into-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D2 deadline<\/a>&nbsp;for BWT compliance has created, quite rightly, a sense of urgency in the market, and we are now seeing more activity than ever before,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>Leiv Kallestad, Optimarin CEO, commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Asiatic Lloyd &amp; Atlantic Lloyd group of companies represents the shipowning and ship management activities of Germany\u2019s K.F. Bunnemann family. The companies own and manage Post-Panamax bulk carriers and container vessels of 1,000-9,000&nbsp;TEU&nbsp;capacity.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore-based shipping company Asiatic Lloyd has decided to equip its entire fleet with ballast water treatment systems (BWTSs).&nbsp; As informed, Asiatic Lloyd Shipmanagement recently signed a fleet agreement with Norway\u2019s BWTS provider Optimarin. The contract encompasses 30 Optimarin Ballast Systems (OBS) that would be installed across the shipping company\u2019s fleet of 1,000-9,000 TEU containerships. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,57],"tags":[787,301,788,62,142],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-shipping-news","tag-bwt","tag-containerships","tag-obs","tag-shipping","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}