Wärtsilä Gas Solutions is to provide the fuel supply and cargo handling systems for four new very large gas carriers (VLGCs) being built in Cosco Shipping (Qidong) Offshore for their owner group. The complete Wärtsilä Gas Solutions’ scope covers the engineering,...
Ro-ro operator UECC has further strengthened its sustainable fleet of pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) with the delivery of a second multi-fuel LNG battery hybrid newbuild from China’s Jiangnan Shipyard. The latest PCTC, to be named Auto Achieve, will further...
FMV (Försvarets Materielverk), the Defence Materiel Administration of Sweden, the organisation that acquires all necessary equipment for the Swedish armed forces, has ordered four ice-class tugs from Damen Shipyards with options four two extra. Damen won the contract...
Azimuth Stern Drive tug 'Plis Fos' has been launched from the vertical ship lift at the Damen Song Cam Shipyard, and following sea trials, the vessel will sail on her own keel from Vietnam to the Isle of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea, where she will be taken into...
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has completed the conceptual design of a Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) initially powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) but adaptable to future use of ammonia as the main fuel. Approval in...
Singapore shipyard Strategic Marine has announced its latest offshore fast crew boat, a 38m extra fast crew transfer catamaran vessel (FCTV), which has been designed in collaboration with One2Three naval architects in Sydney Australia, incorporating direct feedback...
The port of Valletta has hosted a christening ceremony of the 'Eco Malta', the latest ro-ro vessel delivered to the Grimaldi Group, sixth of 12 hybrid ships belonging to the GG5G (Grimaldi Green 5th Generation) class and ordered by the company from the Chinese Jinling...
Shipping company Elbe-Ems has ordered a second Combi Freighter 3850 (CF 3850) from Damen Shipyards, following positive experience with the vessel of the same type' 'Sophie' which has been in operation in European waters since September 2021. The sister vessel, to be...
Japanese operator 'K' Line has taken delivery of a new W-Max Class LNG Carrier from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding group, which was ordered for a long-term charter to Petronas LNG. The ship, named Lagenda Suria is the first of two new-building vessels for the Petronas...
Singapore shipping company Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has taken delivery in Ulsan, Korea of 'STL Yangtze', the first of six 98,000m3 capacity Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLEC) vessels to join its growing gas fleet All six vessels will feature dual fuel ethane...
The Port of Antwerp-Bruges and CMB.Tech, the clean-tech subsidiary of logistics and shipping company CMB (Compagnie Maritime Belge) have announced the launch of the Hydrotug, believed to be the first hydrogen-powered tugboat, at the Armón group Navia yard in Spain,...
A development project for the construction of a 136m wind-powered merchant ship is progressing further following the final selection of the wind-assisted propulsion technology for the vessel, an active crowdfunding campaign and the forging of key strategic...
A naming ceremony has been held for ‘Elektra’, believed to be the first zero-emission pushboat to be built, at the Hermann Barthel shipyard in Derben, Germany. The ceremony marked the end of a two-year construction period and the transfer to Berlin's Westhafen for...
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