Ocean Network Express (ONE), the joint venture between Japanese companies MOL, NYK and 'K' Line, has ordered 10 large new container vessels with a carrying capacity of over 13,700 TEU to be delivered in 2025 and 2026. The 10 new vessels will be ready for methanol and...
The Port of Gothenburg's inspection vessel 'Hammen', which has been in service since 1979, is to be converted to run on electrical power. Replacement of the 20.3m vessel was considered, but the port authority felt this unnecessary, as the 43-year-old Hammen was still...
Oldendorff Carriers has recently celebrated the namegiving of its latest Japanese Capesize newbuilding, the 'Gina Oldendorff' at Namura Shipbuilding. This follows sister vessel Alice Oldendorff, also delivered from Namura in November 2022. Both Capesize ships will be...
Daehan Shipbuilding of Korea has won a contract for three Suezmaxes tankers from shipping company Swiss Advantage Tankers (Advantage). This order follows shortly after Advantage took delivery of the fourth in a series of 299,600dwt tankers from DSME. The Suezmaxes...
Finnish company Viking Line's 10-year-old LNG-fuelled 'Viking Grace' has returned to operations between Turku and Stockholm as a better and climate-smarter version of its old self. During a three-week docking in Odense, Denmark, new technology to reduce fuel...
HMM (the former Hyundai Merchant Marine) has announced newbuilding contracts with Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries(HSHI) and HJ Shipbuilding and Construction(HJSC) for nine 9,000 TEU containerships powered by methanol dual-fuel engines. HMM's mid-to-long-term strategy...
Singapore shipyard Strategic Marine is expanding into the green maritime space with an order for four hybrid StratCat 27 (SC27) Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) for a new customer, Purus Wind’s HST Marine. The inaugural order for parallel hybrid SC27s will see the four...
Concordia Damen reports that the hull of the first ever inland hydrogen vessel is on its way onboard a heavy-lift ship, along with other hulls for conventional vessesl, from the Yizheng Yangzi shipyard in Shanghai, ready for outfitting in the Netherlands. The vessel,...
NYK has signed an order for a fifth liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dual-fuel very large LPG/ammonia gas carrier (VLGC) from Kawasaki Heavy Industries Sakaide Works shipyard for delivery in 2026. This vessel is the seventh in NYK's fleet of LPG-fuelled LPG carriers and...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) recently took delivery of the ‘Cypress Sun’, a dual-fuel methanol carrier that can run on either methanol or conventional heavy fuel oil, from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The vessel will be chartered by MOL from Osaka Shipping...
The Grimaldi Group has decided to exercise the options within its contract with China Merchants Heavy Industries (CMI) Jiangsu shipyard and order an additional five new PCTC (Pure Car & Truck Carrier) vessels, bringing the total number of car carriers ordered in...
Fincantieri Marine Group's US company Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding (FBS) has agreed a contract with Crest Wind, a joint venture between Crowley and ESVAGT, to design and build a 88m (288ft) Service Operation Vessel (SOV) to the HAV 832 design. FBS will work with...
Sembcorp Marine has celebrated the naming of the first of a series of LNG hybrid tugs specially designed for domestic service in Singapore; the Singapore-flagged vessel was christened 'JMS Sunshine' in Singapore. As part of the company’s decarbonisation initiatives...
