Vessels & Shipyards

Sustainable development can efficiently be combined into management of innovations in shipbuilding argues a new doctoral dissertation.

A combination of German technology and Chinese construction has produced an innovative, versatile class of gas tanker, writes David Tinsley.

Having turned in a profit for 2016, and with a huge backlog of cruiseship and naval work, Fincantieri is sanguine about its prospects and is pursuing selective business and industrial expansion. David…

Meyer Turku shipyard is doubling its investment programme to boost steel production and fulfil its record breaking order book reaching to 2024.

A project aiming to build the world’s biggest cargo ship with wind-assisted propulsion will be guided by Lloyds Register (LR).

Fisherman can operate in the Barents and North Atlantic with two new Ice3 class fishing trawlers fitted with Wärtsilä engines.

Self-discharging bulker technology has an important new reference in the US-owned, Chinese-built ‘Ireland’, for Gulf of Mexico trade. David Tinsley reports.

Shipyard workers in Hamburg can paint hulls safer, faster and cheaper thanks to a partnership between Blohm+Voss and Hubert Palfinger Technologies.

Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide a comprehensive scope of solutions for three new 2800 passenger cruise vessels being built for Virgin Voyages.

Dutch system integrator Alewijnse Marine is undertaking the electrical outfitting of two new self-discharging cement carriers for Eureka Shipping.

China Merchants Industry Holding (CMIH) and Norway-founded DNV GL have partnered to advance shipbuilding in the gas carrier, offshore and special vessel segments.

Lloyd Werft Bremerhafen (LWB) has ended months of silence to reveal it will convert the US cruise ship Crystal Symphony in autumn and overhaul Germany’s biggest research icebreaker, Polarstern, after a year…

A dramatic change is taking place in the profile of the reefership fleet controlled by Seatrade through the deliveries of a new generation of container vessels embodying a high reefer intake. By…

A wind service operation vessel (WSOV) under construction for French owner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs at Cemre shipyard in Turkey will feature MAN Diesel & Turbo’s EPROX diesel-electric propulsion system.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed an agreement with China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and Shanghai’s district of Baoshan to create a cruise ship industrial park in the area.

Icelandic Eimskip and Greenland-based Royal Arctic Line A/S have ordered three energy-efficient container vessels designed by Deltamarin.

Japan’s Peace Boat cruise organisation says it will construct its unique Ecoship green concept cruise vessel with the Finnish shipbuilder Arctech.

Leading repair and conversion yard German Dry Docks (GDD) is expanding its marine engine repair and maintenance business by integrating its own MWB Power division and new partner Zeppelin Power Systems (ZPS)…