Two pioneering ship designs: a 201,000m3 LNG carrier featuring a three-cargo hold layout, and a 42,000m3 CO2 (carrier. have been awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) certificates from Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV). The 201,000m3 LNG carrier is the first of...
Canadian ship designer Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) says that a new tug, to a custom RAstar 4200 design, has been delivered to Kenya Port Authority from the Turkish shipyard Med Marine. The tug, Mwokozi II, is 42m in length, designed with 120t bollard pull for salvage and...
Canadian company Seaspan Shipyards has launched its new HoloShip facility, described as an immersive visualisation system that enables Seaspan and the Canadian marine industry community to access a virtual reality environment to develop, integrate, test and...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), MOL Coastal Shipping, Tabuchi Kaiun Co, Niihama Kaiun Co, Murakami Hide Shipbuilding, and The Hanshin Diesel Works, have agreed to form a strategic alliance aimed at reducing environmental impact through the development of a methanol-fuelled...
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), MTI, and Finnish consultancy Elomatic have jointly completed the development of a concept design for an ammonia-fuel ready LNG-fuelled vessel (ARLFV). NYK Group companies NYK and MTI have set a long-term target of net-zero...
Finland-based maritime software company NAPA and classification society ClassNK have strengthened their partnership to support the use of 3D models in the ship design approval process. By streamlining data sharing between design and class approval software, this move...
Ship design company OSK ShipTech has joined with several partner companies and organisations in an Energy Cluster Denmark project which compares the total CO2 emissions of shipbuilding in order to see if retrofitting existing vessels can be more beneficial than...
According to Ulstein Design and Solutions, a shortage is predicted of specialised heavy lift vessels needed to install the increasing number of larger, next generation wind turbines, a situation which will jeopardise future offshore wind farm realisations. Proven,...
Norwegian fishing company Bluewild is expanding its fleet with a new factory trawler designed by Ulstein Design and Solutions; with gentle handling of the catch and the lowest possible energy consumption being important elements in the design development. The new...
BMT has been awarded a design contract for three new Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) to be operated at east coast wind farms in the US. Designed by the company’s team of specialists, the 27m CTV design features BMT’s latest developments to maximise safety, performance,...
An innovative project team that introduced a new shortsea ship design making use of battery and fuel cell technology has been named as the winner of the eighth Intelligence Hunt project competition, by SeaFocus. The Intelligence Hunt is a project-based awards scheme...
Swedish tanker operator Furetank has signed a contract for a further climate-friendly vessel to be designed by FKAB. This is the ninth vessel in the Vinga series, with options for more. The ship will be built by China Merchants Jinling Shipyard, formerly known as...
ZPMC shipyard of China and Ulstein Design & Solutions have signed a ship design contract on two types of Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) for Shanghai Electric Windpower Group, which will be the first purpose-designed SOVs for the Chinese Offshore Wind industry....
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