UAE-based energy company Tristar Group has added a biofuel-electric bunkering barge to its fleet, said to be the first of its kind in the region. The sustainably-operated vessel has been time-chartered by TotalEnergies Marketing Middle East in the Port of Fujairah....
A new industry report from Lloyd’s Register (LR) and LucidCatalyst for Seaspan Corporation reveals how nuclear propulsion creates a competitive advantage for both operators and charterers through superior economics and performance. Nuclear-powered containerships have...
Bio-UV Group, the French manufacturer of the Bio-Sea ballast water treatment system (BWTS), has inaugurated a new 1,200m² maritime training, R&D, engineering, and production facility. The completion of the €2.2m extension, which increases the footprint of the...
Danish company Bawat reports a recent case that underscores the critical need for effective ballast reception facilities in ports, where the company was called upon to deliver its ballast as a service (BaaS) solution to a vessel facing deballasting challenges in...
The Port of Oslo is taking new environmental measures to cut emissions, with ships that sail emission-free in and out of the port to be exempted from quay fees, while using shore power and achieving a high environmental score will earn additional discounts. Ships that...
Norsepower and Idemitsu Tanker Co, the shipping arm of Idemitsu Kosan, have announced their agreement to equip two Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) with the Norsepower rotor sail. The vessels, which will be built by Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) and Nihon...
Swiss marine power company WinGD has signed a long-term service agreement (LTSA) with Hong Kong-based OPearl LNG Ship Management, a company formed jointly by China Merchant LNG, NYK Line and CNOOC, which manages a fleet of LNG carriers. The 15-year LTSA covers 14...
Everllence has announced that its 35/44DF CD genset has landed 138 orders since successfully passing its Type Approval Test (TAT) in April 2025 at STX in Changwon. Orders to date include several from a number of shipping majors. Everllence says that the first 35/44DF...
Energy transportation company Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) has decided to extend adoption of GIT Coatings’ graphene-based propeller coating, Xgit-Prop, across seven additional crude oil tankers. Previously, OSG had applied the propeller coating to one crude oil...
Government agency Innovation Norway has provided sustainable hull-cleaning company ECOsubsea with a NOK 69m (US$ 6.2m) Green Growth Loan that will part-fund the construction of more of the company's next-generation hull-cleaning robots, as it gears up to significantly...
The IMO's Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers made significant progress on the development of draft interim guidelines for the safety of ships using hydrogen and ammonia as fuel when it met for its ninth session (CCC 9). Taking into account the urgency...
Shipowners and operators as well as maritime administration personnel can get to grips with the Energy Efficiency eXisting Ship Index (EEXI) through a new series of videos released in cooperation with the IMO. The films, developed by the Global Industry Alliance to...
HAV Design has successfully completed what it describes as one of its most technically demanding vessel conversions, transforming the offshore vessel 'Rem Inspector' into a specialised IMR vessel tailored for Equinor’s operations. The project is said to have pushed...
C-Job Naval Architects has appointed Marek Sawczuk as MD of C-Job Gdańsk, with responsibility for overseeing the company’s sales and engineering teams based in Gdańsk, Poland. C-Job claims expertise in future fuels like hydrogen, methanol and ammonia. Sawczuk brings...
A christening and delivery ceremony for the 'Grande Istanbul', fourth of seven ammonia-ready Pure Car & Truck Carriers (PCTCs) for the Grimaldi Group has been held at the SWS (Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding) and CSTC (China Shipbuilding Trading) shipyards—both...
Damen Shipyards Group has launched the ninth of 10 Island class ferries which it is building for Canada’s BC Ferries at the Damen Shipyards Galati shipyard in Romania. The launch follows another key moment, when the yard undertook the grand block assembly of Island...
Classification society DNV has awarded HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) an approval in principle (AiP) for a new 15,000 TEU container vessel design powered by small modular reactor (SMR) technology. The design demonstrates the application of...
Under the zero-emission accelerating ship finance programme, jointly operated by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) and ClassNK, the Japanese classification society has evaluated the hydrogen-fuelled demonstration oil tanker 'Kikou Maru', owned by Uyeno Transtech....
French company GTT has received, at the end of December 2021, an order from its partner, the Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries, for the tank design of a new LNG carrier vessel. As part of this order, GTT will design the tanks of the vessel which will offer a...
Cargotec company MacGregor has introduced a fully electrically driven heavy lift crane (HCE) to its heavy lift equipment family, in its drive to offer more environmentally sustainable products and solutions. The HCE is a result of combining MacGregor and NMF’s...
BAR Technologies has unveiled WindWings Hub, a new platform that the company says promises to transform how shipping companies track, understand and optimise the performance of wind-assisted vessels. According to the company, verifying the impact of clean technologies...
A trend towards more use of data-driven, digital vessel performance systems is gathering pace in the shipping industry was one of the main takeaways from the 10th HullPIC conference, but with ship operators saying that there are challenges still to be overcome. The...
Fincantieri Group company Vard has signed a contract with the Taiwanese based company Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) for the design and construction of a Vard 3 39 design Offshore Construction Vessel (OCV), with option(s) for further ships. DFO is involved in the marine...
A new Field Support Vessel being built at the Crist shipyard in Gdynia, Poland, to operate on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, will feature a full propulsion scope from Steerprop. Vessel operating conditions on the Grand Banks are...
In a landmark deal to deliver immersive, next-generation training at scale to the maritime industry, ABS has signed an agreement to purchase the MetaSHIP intellectual property and related vessel simulator software assets from Orka Informatics as part of the strategic...
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Baltic shipping company ESL Shipping’s near and long-term emission reduction targets as the first company in the general cargo segment. Approval means that the targets, which include ESL's subsidiary AtoB@C...
A Lloyd’s Register (LR) report on the state of technology, integration and compliance, alongside the business case for retrofitting vessels, has found that repair yard capability and capacity concerns could thwart the uptake of alternative fuel technology onboard...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), MOL Drybulk, Onomichi Dockyard, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan Engine Corporation (J-Eng) have conducted a risk assessment of a multi-purpose vessel powered by zero-emission hydrogen fuel. The project has been granted Approval in Principle...
Classification Society ClassNK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cybersecurity with the Panama Maritime Authority (PMA), the largest flag state, which is making various efforts to improve the safety of its own vessels. PMA recently announced the...
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