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Sinopacific Shipbuilding Groups Zhejiang Shipyard has completed its first self-designed AHTS offshore support vessel, for French group Bourbon, built in China to Sinopacific’s SPA 80 design.

New shipping risks are highlighted by a report that marks the changes since the loss of the Titanic a century ago.

US company Nautical Control Solutions says that its FuelTrax system now allows users to enter activity codes for automatically coupling fuel usage data to location, date, and time. Wind and sea states…

Hamburg’s Eckelmann port logistics Group and German cruise ship operator TUI Cruises are co-operating in the introduction of a mobile floating power station to supply ships with electrical power in port.

Rolls-Royce says that it has received its first order for a new ship developed specifically for transporting live fish, from Norwegian owner Sølvtrans. The vessel, described as advanced and fuel efficient, will…

The final vessel in Seatruck’s series of four new ro-ro freight vessels, ‘Seatruck Precision’, has been launched at the FSG yard in Flensburg, Germany.

ClassNK says that it has issued approval for a friction stir welding (FSW) method using a floating bobbin tool to IHI Corporation, certifying that this new method complies with ClassNK’s Guidelines on…