At the Grimaldi Group's recent Euromed convention in Athens, the group revealed that it is investing in more newbuildings, which will reduce the average age of its ships – already 40% lower than that of the global ro-ro fleet – further still. Seven new ships have been...
At the Cemre shipyard in Turkey, all of the steel plates for Scandlines' new zero direct emission freight ferry PR24 (Puttgarden-Rødby 2024) have now been cut. All 36 sections are expected to be welded together and placed on the slipway by the end of June 2023. The...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has placed an order for a methanol carrier, which can run on either methanol or conventional heavy fuel oil with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, scheduled for delivery in 2025. A charter agreement for the new vessel has already been signed with...
Ferry operator Stena Line has contracted two new bespoke freight vessels from Weihai, China, for its expanding Belfast-Heysham freight service on the Irish Sea. Each of the two new 147m vessels has been designed to maximise freight volumes and will provide 2,800...
Vard has signed new contracts for the design and construction of two commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) for UK infrastructure support vessel operator North Star, which includes an option for two additional ships. North Star employs 1,300 crew and onshore...
Amogy and C-Job Naval Architects are collaborating to retrofit an existing tugboat with ammonia-to-power technology. As the ship design partner for Amogy, C-Job Naval Architects will integrate Amogy’s ammonia-to-power system into the tugboat and lay out the framework...
UK company Purus Marine has ordered four 45,000m3 dual fuel ammonia-ready medium-sized gas carriers from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea, with an option for two additional vessels. The vessels, scheduled for delivery in 2025 and 2026, will be fitted with...
Holland Shipyards Group (HSG) has started working on the retrofit of Future Proof Shipping’s second vessel 'FPS Waal' to sail on hydrogen power. The first vessel, FPS Maas, is currently at the yard in the final phase of its retrofit. For the FPS Waal, measuring 110m x...
Proman Stena Bulk, the joint venture between tanker company Stena Bulk and methanol producer Proman, has formally named the third of its methanol-fuelled 49,900 dwt tankers 'Stena Promise', at a ceremony held in Rotterdam. This was the first naming ceremony for a...
Maran Dry Management (MDM), the dry bulk shipping arm of the Angelicoussis Group, recently took delivery of two Newcastlemax bulk carriers, 'Ubuntu Unity' and 'Ubuntu Community', built to DNV class, from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Ship Building (SWS). These are the first...
FueLNG, a joint venture between Sembcorp subsidiary Keppel O&M and Shell Singapore, has named its newest addition to the fleet, the LNG bunker vessel 'FueLNG Venosa', at a ceremony at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan, South Korea. Aw Kah Peng, Chairman of Shell...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Asahi Tanker have announced that the ‘Akari’, the world's second pure battery tanker, owned and operated by Asahi Tanker, has completed its first bunkering operation in Kawasaki, supplying the MOL-operated iron ore career ‘Unta’. Akari was...
The Grimaldi Group has taken delivery from the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan, South Korea, of the vessel 'Great Antwerp' which is the first of six multipurpose ro-ro units commissioned just over two years ago. The vessel inaugurates a new class called G5, which is...
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