General News

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Testing of a mobile robotic welding solution to raise shipbuilding efficiency has begun in Italy. The MR4Weld outdoor automated system is the first issue of a collaboration agreement implemented in 2021 by…

29th August 2023

Flexible Robot To Work In Italian Yards

29th August 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The European Commission (EC) launched an online consultation to evaluate its Ship Recycling Regulation that ran until early June 2023. The results of the work will probably increase the number of ships recycled…

24th August 2023

EC ship recycling consultation likely to drive change towards responsible practices

24th August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Norwegian shipmanagement specialist OSM Thome has announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Norwegian green shipping specialist Pherousa Green Shipping AS (PGS) to collaborate on a series of 63,000dwt ammonia-fuelled Ultramax…

22nd August 2023

OSM Thome inks NH3-fuelled Ultramax series deal

22nd August 2023

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Classification society CCS (China Classification Society) has awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Weishi Energy Technology Hebei for a liquid hydrogen fuel supply system design suitable for use aboard marine vessels. The…

21st August 2023

CCS awards AiP to LH2 fuel supply system

21st August 2023

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

UK engineering company TWI is one of 14 partners that has received EU funding to develop a 160,000cbm liquified hydrogen (LH2) containment system for ships

21st August 2023

Consortium to develop 16,000cbm LH2 containment system

21st August 2023

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Dutch group Damen has been compelled to give up management and operational control of the Mangalia shipyard, Romania’s largest shipbuilder and the biggest in Damen’s international network. The move has been precipitated…

21st August 2023

Strain On Damen’s Romanian Links

21st August 2023

CARBON CAPTURE

CARBON CAPTURE

The Porthos carbon capture use and storage project at the Port of Rotterdam is set to advance, following the dismissal of a challenge by Dutch environmentalists to the project. The project’s developers…

17th August 2023

Port of Rotterdam CCUS project set to proceed

17th August 2023

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

A bulk carrier vessel equipped with Anemoi Marine Technologies’ rotor sails has concluded its first voyage from China to Western Australia, following the successful installation of the rotor sails in Chengxi Shipyard, China, in…

17th August 2023

Initial rotor sail results suggest Kamsarmax will achieve 10% fuel efficiencies

17th August 2023

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

Odfjell has announced that it has signed a deal to retrofit fixed suction sails on board a chemical tanker.

17th August 2023

Odfjell to retrofit suction sails on board chemical tanker

17th August 2023

METHANOL

METHANOL

Wallenius Wilhelmsen has ordered four 9,350 car equivalent unit (ceu) vessels from Jinling Shipyard in Jiangsu province, China. The vessels will be capable of operating on methanol as a fuel, and will be ammonia-ready. The order…

15th August 2023

Wallenius Wilhelmsen orders 4+8 methanol-fuelled PCTCs

15th August 2023