Design and engineering consultancy Houlder has announced significant progress in its involvement in the SPINE project, with the design of a 10,000m3 methanol bunkering vessel. The SPINE project, supported by MarRI-UK under the Smart Maritime Land Operations Call,...
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CONOSHIP STARTS PRODUCTION OF GREEN COASTER
Construction of the first new design short sea shipping vessel developed by Conoship International Projects (CIP) has begun at Gelibolu Shipyard in Turkey. This innovative, diesel-electric, and environmentally friendly 3600 dwt general cargo vessel has been designed...
ABS APPROVES PROVARIS H2 CARRIER DESIGN
Australian company Provaris Energy has announced that ABS has reviewed, verified, and approved the design of its 26,000m3 H2Neo compressed hydrogen carrier following completion of extensive Front End Engineering Design (FEED) work and ABS review activities. This...
C-JOB DESIGNS HELP FUTURE-PROOF OFFSHORE WIND SECTOR
According to Netherlands-based design and engineering company C-Job, the rapid expansion of the offshore wind sector is quickly resulting in a shortage of certain vessel types that are vital for the installation and maintenance of the wind turbines. Because of this...
VARD SECURES FUNDING FOR EFFICIENCY OPTIMISATION OF ZERO EMISSION DESIGNS
According to shipbuilder Vard, the demand for renewable energy production has resulted in many offshore wind projects. which need service operation vessels (SOV) to build and operate offshore wind parks in a sustainable way. The demand is for SOVs designed with...
NAVTEK SIGNS MoU WITH e1 FOR HYDROGEN-FUELLED VESSELS
Renewable energy company e1 Marine has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with naval design and engineering specialist Navtek to collaboratively develop hydrogen-powered low-carbon emission marine vessels and port applications for the European market. This includes...
GEM AND DELTAMARIN FORM DECARBONISATION ALLIANCE
Deltamarin of Finland has signed an agreement that names Texas-based GEM Marine as its representative in the US, in a move that is believed to maximise the strengths of both companies, each of which is committed to decarbonising the shipping and offshore energy...
LOW-EMISSION CTV DESIGN LAUNCHES TO US OFFSHORE WIND SECTOR
Marine engineering consultancy BAR Technologies (BAR), is to make its low emission CTV design, the BARTech 30, available for the first US offshore wind projects in 2024, following tenders from several US shipyards. BAR is setting up license agreements that will see...
MINI-TUG DESIGN USES BATTERY POWER
US companies Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) and Miller Marine have teamed to design and construct a fully electric truckable tug, which is purposefully designed as a multi-functional utility boat servicing marine construction sites, tending dredges, tending buoys,...
ELECTRIC PUSHBOATS TARGET NORTH AMERICAN WATERWAYS
Lithuanian ship designer Western Baltic Engineering (WBE) is launching two new versions of its ground-breaking electric 'pusher' vessel design series, known as the ‘Electric Eel’, as it seeks to support the decarbonisation of America's inland waterways network. The...
NORWEGIAN DESIGN FOR NOVEL CO2 CARRIER
Breeze Ship Design, together with the Norwegian oil major Equinor, are to develop a ship design concept for a CO2 carrier for direct offshore injection, with main key design drivers being safe loading, transport, and offshore injection of CO2 with as low emissions as...
ClassNK GRANTS AiP FOR AMMONIA FUELLED BULKER
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ('K' Line) and Itochu Corporation, Nihon Shipyard Mitsui E&S Machinery and NS United Kaiun Kaisha have jointly obtained an Approval in Principle (AiP) from Classification Society, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) for the design of an...
NYK AND PARTNERS BEGIN NEXT PHASE OF ARLFV PROJECT
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), MTI and Elomatic have now completed the concept design phase of a new capesize bulk carrier and a very large crude oil tanker (VLCC) in a project that aims to build an LNG-fuelled vessel that can be efficiently converted to an...