LR CERTIFICATION COVERS HYDROGEN POWER AND AUTONOMOUS OPERATION
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has issued the UK’s first certification for a remotely operated and unmanned vessel (ROUV) under the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) Workboat Code Edition 3 (WBC3) Annex 2, with hydrogen-powered ‘Pioneer’ from Acua Ocean...
ABB INTEGRATES TECHNOLOGIES FOR FIRST H2 FUEL CELL SUPERYACHT
ABB has integrated a comprehensive scope of technologies onboard ‘Feadship Breakthrough’, a superyacht constructed by Dutch builder Feadship and launched in May 2025. The privately-owned 118.8m vessel will be among the first in the world to feature...
BV PUBLISHES PAPER ON NUCLEAR’S ROLE IN MARITIME DECARBONISATION
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has produced a white paper intended to provide a summary of the analysis as to why nuclear power would make sense in the maritime sector. The paper covers propulsion, coastal near-shore nuclear power plants and on-land...
ELECTRIC TUG FOR CHINESE PORT
Canadian naval architecture practice Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) has been awarded a contract to design an AmpRA 3600 tug for Tianjin Port in Northern China. The AmpRA 3600 series tug will be constructed at Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard Group. According to RAL, this builds on...
FUEL-EFFICIENT CTV DESIGN DELIVERED IN PACIFIC REGION
Vessel designer Chartwell Marine has announced the delivery of ‘Prosperous 6’, a new high-performance crew transfer vessel, as part of a strategic partnership with APAC region owner and operator of offshore vessels Pacific Radiance. The vessel has...
REM OFFSHORE VESSEL UPGRADED BY HAV DESIGN
HAV Design has successfully completed what it describes as one of its most technically demanding vessel conversions, transforming the offshore vessel ‘Rem Inspector’ into a specialised IMR vessel tailored for Equinor’s operations. The project is said to...
GRIMALDI TAKES DELIVERY OF AMMONIA-READY PCTC
The Italian Grimaldi Group has named and taken delivery of its latest vessel ‘Grande Tianjin’ from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company Limited (SWS). The Grande Tianjin is the first of seven PCTC (pure car and truck carrier) vessels commissioned from...
SWIRE JOINS CARBON MANAGEMENT NETWORK TO ENSURE SUSTAINABILITY AND COMPLIANCE
UK-based supply chain risk management solution specialist Achilles has signed an agreement to bring Swire Shipping into the Achilles Maritime Network. This latest addition to the collaborative industry initiative brings the total number of vessels in the programme to...