Shipbuilding & ship repair news

10 BOXSHIP NEWBUILDS FOR ONE WILL BE ALTERNATIVE FUEL READY

10 BOXSHIP NEWBUILDS FOR ONE WILL BE ALTERNATIVE FUEL READY

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...

read more
Bim Ing
Ecochlor
SWEDISH PORT VESSEL GETS ELECTRIC LIFE EXTENSION

SWEDISH PORT VESSEL GETS ELECTRIC LIFE EXTENSION

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 NAMES LATEST GREEN BULKER

OLDENDORFF NAMES LATEST GREEN BULKER

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...

KOREAN YARD WINS DUAL-FUEL SUEZMAX CONTRACT

KOREAN YARD WINS DUAL-FUEL SUEZMAX CONTRACT

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...

VIKING FERRY RETURNS AFTER GREENING UPGRADE

VIKING FERRY RETURNS AFTER GREENING UPGRADE

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...

NINE METHANOL-FUELLED BOXSHIP ORDER UNDERLINES HMM’S GREEN AIMS

NINE METHANOL-FUELLED BOXSHIP ORDER UNDERLINES HMM’S GREEN AIMS

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...

STRATEGIC MARINE RECEIVES ORDER FOR FOUR HYBRID CTVS

STRATEGIC MARINE RECEIVES ORDER FOR FOUR HYBRID CTVS

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...

Yara
Protea
CONCORDIA DAMEN MAKES PROGRESS WITH HYDROGEN-FUELLED INLAND SHIP

CONCORDIA DAMEN MAKES PROGRESS WITH HYDROGEN-FUELLED INLAND SHIP

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 ORDERS FIFTH DUAL-FUEL AMMONIA CARRIER

NYK ORDERS FIFTH DUAL-FUEL AMMONIA CARRIER

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...

MOL TAKES DELIVERY OF DUAL-FUEL METHANOL CARRIER

MOL TAKES DELIVERY OF DUAL-FUEL METHANOL CARRIER

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...

GRIMALDI EXERCISES OPTIONS FOR MORE AMMONIA-READY PCTCs

GRIMALDI EXERCISES OPTIONS FOR MORE AMMONIA-READY PCTCs

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...

FBS TO BUILD JONES-ACT SOV FOR CROWLEY AND ESVAGT JV

FBS TO BUILD JONES-ACT SOV FOR CROWLEY AND ESVAGT JV

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...

BATTERY-LNG HYBRID TUG NAMED BY SEMBCORP

BATTERY-LNG HYBRID TUG NAMED BY SEMBCORP

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...

Protea
CR Ocean
Danfoss
Advertise with Clean Shipping International