WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN HOPES TO STREAMLINE ALTERNATIVE FUEL TAKE-UP
Wallenius Wilhelmsen is launching a re-engineered bunker adjustment factor, BAF2.0, to prepare for future fuels on the path to net-zero emissions by 2040. BAF2.0 is expected to streamline and simplify the adaptation of alternative fuels. Bunker Adjustment Factor (BAF)...
LACK OF NATIONAL POLICIES IS HOLDING BACK GREEN CORRIDOR DEVELOPMENT
The ‘Annual Progress Report on Green Shipping Corridors 2024’, published by the Getting to Zero Coalition and the Global Maritime Forum, concludes that Green shipping corridors – specific trade routes where the feasibility of zero-emission shipping is...
MAN B&W LICENSEE REACHES 120m HORSEPOWER
Tokyo-based Mitsui E&S has now achieved accumulated engine production of 120 million horsepower snce the license agreement was first established some 96 years ago. This milestone was achieved with a Mitsui-MAN B&W 7G95ME-C10.6-EGRTC engine, the 7,525th engine...
BV WORKSHOP FOCUSES ON GREEN FUEL AND ELECTRIFICATION
The Hong Kong Chamber of Shipping and Bureau Veritas (BV), supported by the Yantian District Government, Hong Kong Shipowners Association, Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings, and the Equator Fund, recently hosted a workshop with international stakeholders focused...
ZERO EMISSION CSOV READY TO BEGIN SERVICE
Spanish shipbuilder Gondan reports that the naming ceremony of ‘Vestri Enabler’, a Commissioning Service Operations Vessel (CSOV), for Norwegian shipowner Edda Wind, took place in the port of El Musel in Gijón. The vessel, designed by Salt Ship Design, a...
DNV AND SEATRIUM COLLABORATION DRIVES OFFSHORE SUSTAINABILITY
DNV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Singapore-based Seatrium, an engineering solutions provider to the offshore and marine industries, to cooperate on strategic activities and projects in the areas of engineering, technology and new product design....
VARD HANDS OVER FIFTH HYBRID CSOV TO NORWIND OFFSHORE
Shipbuilder Vard, part of the Fincantieri group, has delivered the CSOV (Commissioning Service Operation Vessel) ‘Norwind Helm’ to Norwind Offshore. This is the fifth vessel in the series Vard has delivered to Norwegian Norwind Offshore, a company...
MAERSK COMPLETES DUAL-FUEL METHANOL CONVERSION
Container ship ‘Maersk Halifax’, one of 11 vessels in Maersk’s Hong Kong-class, has been converted into a dual-fuel vessel able to operate on methanol. The retrofit operation was conducted at the Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard in China, taking a total of 88 days....