Vessels & Shipyards

Norwegian ship operator Østensjø Rederi has ordered four next generation vessels from Spanish shipyards. The innovative hybrid vessels are designed to be hydrogen ready, permitting hydrogen storage and fuel supply systems and…

Troubled German shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) hopes to resume production in summer now that an application for self-administered insolvency has been approved, writes Tom Todd.

French liner shipping giant CMA CGM is to deploy the first South Korean-built, LNG-fuelled container vessel writes David Tinsley. The 14,681TEU CMA CGM Tenere is further distinguished by the adoption of a…

The east German shipbuilding group MV Werften (MVW) has been told it can hope for financial support worth some €600 million up to the end of the year to help it cope…

HMM has held a naming ceremony for the world’s largest containership at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo shipyard in Korea.

Wärtsilä has won a contract to develop a customised design for up to six new luxury expedition cruise vessels owned and operated by Amundsen Expeditions.

Vard, the Norwegian shipbuilder and designer, is to design and build the first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for operation in Taiwan. The order will be built at Vards yard in Vietnam, Vard…

Despite the earlier suspension of operations due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft has handed over its latest high-capacity ro-ro freight vessel, writes David Tinsley.

With China posing determined new competition, Japan’s shipbuilding industry is intent on maintaining pre-eminence in the niche sector of woodchip carrier construction, writes David Tinsley.

After heading into 2020 with no newbuild work in hand or on order, Philly Shipyard has just clinched a major deal for the construction of two 160-metre merchant navy training ships to…