Vessels & Shipyards

There are divergent forces at the heart of the DP certification: on one side is the need for capable and experienced operators, while on the other side there is a surge of…

A very sophisticated offshore support training facility has been built, housed not in a high end OEM R&D installation, but in a not-for-profit facility in Mumbai, India. By Stevie Knight

A new lightweight passenger-vehicle ferry to an established Australian design has been built in the Philippines for service in French Polynesia is described by David Tinsley.

With ever-tighter emissions limits in port areas, there are pressures on vessels operating mostly within harbor confines, like tugs and bunker barges, to be as clean as possible; Dag Pike describes an…

There’s a difference between ice and ice – it’s not always the same thing.

Damen Shipyards’ ‘series production’ philosophy, which has proved so successful in the workboat, tug and patrol craft markets, is successfully transferring to coastal and short sea shipping as demand grows for high-quality…

Dag Pike looks at the increasing focus on Arctic shipping which has led to the IMO implementing a new code of safety to ensure safe ships and navigation in polar waters

Classification society ClassNK has release a new version of its PrimeShip-Hull ship design support software, said to be the first such product that fully supports the IACS Common Structural Rules (harmonized CSR)…

Incat’s fastest ferry yet, the LNG-fuelled gas turbine-powered ‘Francisco’ has successfully entered service with Buquebus in South America: David Tinsley reports on the ship and its fuel arrangements.

According to Tom Todd, both large and small yards in Germany are reaping the benefits of diversification and streamlined production, and have attracted some significant newbuild orders despite some still-unresolved failures along…

Work has begun in Russia on a new nuclear-powered icebreaker, considerably larger and more powerful than any existing vessel, while a smaller Russian icebreaker soon to be completed in Finland, offers a…

The latest addition to the Ostenso Rederij fleet claims that it’s capable of cutting the typical PSV energy draw by between 25% and 30% - while still running plain ordinary diesel, writes…

Wendy Laursen speaks to Jesse Millar, naval architect at BMT Design and Technology, to see how his companys Baseline Management System can assist shipowners as they tackle the demands of energy efficiency…

Investment in hull coatings is on the rise, and manufacturers are responding with a range of new performance promises, writes Wendy Laursen

Stevie Knight says that holding hands with a Brazilian collaborator who knows the water may be the best way to negotiate the ‘local content’ directive and the mire of other regulations that…

The Deepwater Enabler is the response to a tipping point according to Bob Rietveldt of Ulstein. Cheap is no longer really viable if it limits what you can do, and given this,…

Although people often seem to be looking for the next novel power source, it’s more likely that the offshore support market will see an increasingly complex set of combinations rather than a…

‘Bow Pioneer’, delivered this year to Odfjell Tankers of Norway by DSME in South Korea, is the largest type 2 chemical tanker afloat, and is described here by David Tinsley.

“You can’t assume much about what’s really happening to fuel consumption when a vessel is in Dynamic Position mode,” David Barton of Global Maritime tells Stevie Knight.

What shape should the next generation of ferries take? was the question addressed by Rolls-Royce’s Blue Ocean team at the InterFerry Conference, held earlier this year in Malta.