Caterpillar Marine has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore-headquartered Strategic Marine to help deliver sustainable solutions for the offshore industry. Strategic Marine has an international orderbook and is recognised for crafting...
TotalEnergies Marine Fuels has joined Japan’s Itochu Corp and eight other companies to study critical safety aspects of bunkering container vessels with ammonia in a bid to develop the carbon-free fuel into a feasible, sustainable marine fuel. The study will carry out...
The 'Phoenix Harmonia', a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) powered very large LPG/ammonia carrier, constructed by Namura Shipbuilding has been delivered to MOL Energia, a Singapore-based company of Mitsui OSK Lines Group. Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, a part of Mitsubishi...
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has been chosen to deliver ro-ro equipment for two of the world's first methanol-fuelled pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) for China Merchant Energy Shipping to be built at China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu). The vessels are...
Danish Shipping has been working in recent weeks to establish guidelines for new green fuels at the recent meeting of IMO’s Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers. The industry organisation says the process is lengthy, but progress is being made. As ships...
ClassNK has released 'Guidelines for Fuel Cell Power Systems On Board Ships (Second Edition)', which covers safety provisions related to the design of ships powered by fuel cells as well as fuel cell power systems themselves, coming in anticipation of the growing...
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus will equip one of the vessels it uses to transport aircraft subassemblies, chartered from shipowner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), with a wind-assisted propulsion technology that captures wind energy to generate thrust and, therefore,...
China Marine Bunker PetroChina (Chimbusco), a shipping service company in the Cosco Shipping group, reports that it has initiated two group standards: the 'Marine Methanol Fuel Waterborne Refuelling Regulations' and 'Marine Methanol Fuel'. The standards have been...
Value Maritime has completed the first in a series of nine installations of its emissions reducing Filtree systems for product and chemical tanker company Ardmore Shipping Corporation. Taking place in China, this was the first time that Value Maritime has installed...
Swiss marine power company WinGD has secured the first approval in principle (AiP) for two-stroke engines fuelled with ammonia, following the award by Lloyd’s Register (LR) of AiP to WinGD’s X-DF-A dual-fuel range. According to the company, this gives shipowners the...
According to German propulsion company Schottel, owners, naval architects and shipyards are increasingly turning to environmentally friendly propulsion technologies for large yachts, focusing on thruster efficiency and thruster usability in conjunction with...
