Wärtsilä Gas Solutions has been contracted to supply the cargo handling and fuel gas supply systems for six newbuild medium-sized gas carrier (MGC) vessels, which Wärtsilä says strengthens its market position in this sector. The new vessels are being constructed at...
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...
MOL group company's second LNG-fuelled ferry, 'Sunflower Murasaki' has now begun operation on the Osaka-Beppu route as a replacement for an existing vessel. The new ferry is a sister ship to the Sunflower Kurenai. Compared to earlier ferries, the new vessel offers...
Sanmar Shipyards has signed a new contract with long-term client Buksér og Berging (BuBe) to build a new generation environmentally-friendly tugboat, which will be the ninth tug that the Turkish tugboat builder has delivered to the Norway-headquartered operator. Based...
Like Damen, with its ambitions to be the world’s most sustainable shipbuilder, German ferry operator Reederei Norden-Frisia has a vision for a green future, and is joining with Damen Shipyards to build a new all-electric ferry. The company operates services from the...
Reports from China suggest that French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM has has contracted with China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) for the construction of as many as 16 large containerships, to be built at three CSSC shipyards. There will be 12 vessels...
Vitol’s Singapore-based bunker operations company, V-Bunkers, has announced that it will be taking delivery of its first electric-hybrid bunker tanker, 'Marine Charge', from Zhejiang Shenzhou Sunshine Heavy Industry in China. Classed by Bureau Veritas (BV), the bunker...
Korean yard Daehan Shipbuilding has signed contracts to build two 158,000dwt crude oil carriers, which will be prepared for dual-fuel LNG operation and equipped with exhaust gas scrubbers, for Greek company Advantage Tankers. The latest order is seen as something of a...
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