East Africa Marine Transport (EAMT) of Uganda has moved towards creating a more sustainable and efficient logistics solution for Lake Victoria with the commissioning of the 'Mpungu', the lake’s first scheduled ro-rovfreight vessel. Offering faster and safer crossings...
Heavy lift carrier AAL Shipping’s 32,000 dwt Super B-Class vessel ‘AAL Limassol’ has completed its first voyage, safely delivering over 89,000 freight tons of multipurpose cargo on a single sailing to Europe. This is not only a record cargo intake for the carrier, but...
Three years after launching the Aurora Class design, the first Aurora class vessel, 'Höegh Aurora', has been delivered at a naming ceremony at China Merchants Heavy Industry’s yard in Jiangsu, China. The ship is described as a "ground-breaking and transformational...
Capital Gas Ship Management has taken successful delivery of three newbuilding LNG carriers 'Assos', 'Apostolos' and 'Aktoras' from Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea. The sister vessels with a cargo capacity of 174,000m3 and are designed for high efficiency,...
Crowley has accepted delivery of the LNG bunker barge 'Progress', the largest US Jones Act-compliant vessel of its kind, after construction was completed at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The Progress will expand access to cleaner energy for...
The 'Olympic Boreas' commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV), first of two built at Ulstein Verft in Norway to the Ulstein SX222 design, has been delivered to operator Olympic. Olympic Boreas has been designed with the Twin X-Stern solution and comes with hybrid...
AW Shipping, a joint venture between the UAE's ADNOC Logistics and Services and Wanhua Chemical Group, has awarded shipbuilding contracts to Jiangnan Shipyard in China, valued at about US$ 1.9bn in total. The contract covers the construction of nine Very Large Ethane...
Carnival Corporation has placed an order for three new ships for its namesake Carnival Cruise Line brand for a new class of vessel, at nearly 230,000grt, with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, The new LNG-powered ships are scheduled to be delivered in 2029, 2031 and...
Indian shipbuilder Cochin Shipyard (CSL) has handed over the 15th electric hybrid 100 passenger Water Metro Ferry BY 126 to Kochi Water Metro (KMRL). Both organisations worked closely towards the successful completion of this project, which is intended to contribute...
Bluferries, a subsidiary of the FS Italiane Group’s Polo Logistica operating in maritime transportation in the Strait of Messina, Italy, CTE Perdikaris Engineering, Architectural and Technical Services, and classification society RINA have launched a hybrid passenger...
Damen Shipyards Group's Galati yard in Romania has cut the first steel on the first two of four, fully electric Island Class Ferries that it is building for Canadian operator BC Ferries. The ferries will be the first fully electric vessels to operate in the company’s...
New Zealand electric ferry design and technology company EV Maritime has been commissioned by Angel Island Tiburon Ferry (AITF)to design an all-new hybrid electric vessel for the San Francisco-based fleet. The project will additionally see the electrification of two...
Turkish tug and workboat builder Sanmar has started work on seven more of its emissions-free battery electric powered ElectRA class tugs. Sanmar has experienced huge interest in these ‘Tugs of the Future’ and, once built and delivered, these latest versions will bring...
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