Incat Tasmania says it has achieved a defining moment in maritime history, as the largest battery-electric ship ever constructed was powered up and successfully completed its first e-motor trial in Hobart, Tasmania. Hull 096 – the world’s largest battery-electric ship...
HaiSea Marine, a joint venture majority owned by the Canadian Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan, has officially named and blessed its new harbour tug boat fleet – which includes the world’s first fully electric harbour tug boats, along with dual fuel (LNG and...
The floating out of 'Sun Princess', the first of two LNG-fuelled cruise ships for Princess Cruises, took place at the Fincantieri yard in Monfalcone, Italy. At 175,500gt Sun Princess is the largest ship built so far in Italy, as well as the first LNG cruise ship built...
National Energy Corporation (NEC), a subsidiary of the state-owned National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago, has taken delivery of a new Damen ASD Tug 2811. NEC has opted to have installed a Class certified Damen Marine NOx Reduction System to make it IMO Tier III...
Brittany Ferries' latest newbuild, 'Santoña', has begun servive on the company's twice-weekly Portsmouth (UK) to Santander in northern Spain service, to which is added a single weekly return-crossing to Cherbourg in France. Santoña is fuelled by LNG, expected to...
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...
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