Dutch company JR Shipping has confirmed an order for two Conoship-designed ECO-8500 dry cargo vessels to be built by Chowgule Shipyards. Conoship International developed the ECO-8500 in cooperation with Boomsma Shipping as a series of eco-friendly, diesel-electric dry...
GTT and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have received an Approval in Principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register (LR) for the application of a new design of LNG Carrier (LNGC) featuring GTT’s three-tank concept equipped with the Mark III Flex membrane containment system. The...
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group and Nihon Shipyard, a Tokyo-based joint venture for ship design and sales between Imabari Shipbuilding and Japan Marine United Corporation have started a joint study for the development of an...
Towage provider Svitzer, part of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has awarded a contract to Uzmar Shipyard to build two new TRAnsverse tugs for its Australian business. The TRAnsverse tugs arecreated in collaboration with Robert Allan Ltd, which aim to set a new standard in...
Dutch company Conoship is participating in the EverLoNG project, which aims to encourage the uptake of Ship Based Carbon Capture (SBCC) by demonstrating its use on LNG-fuelled ships. The research will optimise the technology and consider how best to integrate it into...
Ship designer Ulstein Design & Solutions is introducing a safer, smarter and more competitive solution for transporting, upending and installing increasingly-large monopiles for the offshore wind industry on Dynamic Positioning (DP). The patent-pending U-Stern...
Singapore-headquartered Cyan Renewables has contracted Ulstein Design & Solutions as the designer of a series of new floating foundation installation vessels (FFIV) dedicated to offshore wind. With an increasing lack of heavy lift installation vessels, these new...
Western Australian shipyard Austal’s new artificial intelligence (AI) toolset, DeepMorpher, is helping the company’s designers explore broader design spaces whilst significantly reducing resource requirements for complex hull optimisation routines. The company says...
Deltamarin and GTT have received Approval in Principle (AiP) from the classification society ClassNK for a joint 12,500 m3 LNG dual fuel VLCC design. Deltamarin, GTT and ClassNK have been collaborating on the development of an LNG-fuelled energy-efficient Very Large...
The Belov Engenharia Shipyard, located in Salvador, Brazil, has delivered the first Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) designed RApide 2000-E pushboat – 'HB Poraque'. This is the first of two innovative battery/diesel electric vessels for Hidrovias do Brasil, a South American...
Danish naval architecture practice Knud E Hansen has produced a design for a CO2 tanker for use in carbon capture and storage applications. According to the Paris Agreement CO2 emissions are to be reduced as to limit the global warming to well below 2°C, preferably...
Swedish group Gotlandsbolaget and the Australian shipyard Austal have signed a letter of intent to enter into an agreement for the design of a new catamaran ferry, to be known as ‘Gotland Horizon X’, a fast catamaran that will be able to run on hydrogen. Austal and...
The German Meyer Group, which says it is currently building new vessels that set new standards in cruise design and technology, has come up with a concept idea of what a cruise vessel could look like in the year 2100. Meyer has started construction of its first green...
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