Vessels & Shipyards

What is being billed as the world’s largest combined scientific research and cruise expedition vessel will dock at specialist German shipyard Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven (LWB) next April for about a year…

The UK’s new polar research ship is a boon to the science community and also represents a milestone industrial achievement, writes David Tinsley.

Japan’s NYK Line has placed an order for an LNG-fuelled pure car and truck carrier (PCTC). The 200 metre-long vessel is expected to become the world’s largest LNG-fuelled PCTC when it enters…

A new generation of ferries has been ordered in China to serve passenger and freight traffic between Britain and continental Europe on the busiest and shortest crossing of the English Channel, writes…

Despite the cessation of trade in oil products to many small, tidal ports and river berths in the British Isles over the past few decades, the NAABSA charter party clause denoting ‘Not…

Houston-based American Ethane announced plans to order 17 very large ethane carriers at Gastech in Houston on 17 September. The 150,000 cbm capacity VLECs will be ordered from Chinese shipyards Hudong-Zhonghua and…

Finland is the setting for an unusual European case of the revival of shipbuilding in one of the industry’s traditional centres, writes David Tinsley.

Dutch shipbuilding has strengthened its hand in dedicated cement carrier design and construction through the delivery last month of the 4,200dwt self-discharger Kongsdal to Cyprus-based SMT Shipping, writes David Tinsley.

A further phase in Matson Navigation’s modernisation programme for its Hawaiian services is set to be realised with the impending completion of the 52,000dwt con-ro vessel Lurline, writes David Tinsley.

Prysmian Group is moving ahead with the construction of its fourth cable-layer. The keel was laid for its newbuild cable-laying vessel, Leonardo da Vinci, at the Vard shipyard in Norway in September…