General News

A Dutch company, Hull Vane, has developed a foil which can be fitted below a ship’s stern, and which is said to significantly reduce fuel consumption.

Wärtsilä is launching a hybrid control system, designed to combine different power sources with energy storage devices resulting in fuel savings and lower emissions.

A lot of interest has been reported in a new German LNG bunker barge design - TB-X- developed by a Hamburg shipyard for a wide range of applications, reports Tom Todd.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured two orders for its offshore equipment from Chinese shipbuilders Wuhu Xinlian and Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Ltd.

Cunard’s 90,000gt Queen Victoria will dock at Blohm + Voss Repair in Hamburg in January - nearly a year earlier than planned - because a propulsion unit bearing needs replacing, Tom Todd…

Havyard is fitting out the first of two newbuild offshore windfarm vessels for new customer, shipping company, ESVAGT, opening a door to the new market of renewable energy for the shipbuilder.

Finnish naval architecture company, Foreship BlueTech, has been contracted by Bulgaria’s Navibulgar to design four bulk carriers to be built at Hongqiang shipyard.