Vessels & Shipyards

Japanese car manufacturer Nissan Motor Company recently introduced its ultra-green eco-friendly car carrier, built by Shin Kurushima Dockyard, which began its maiden voyage on 27 January.

In late 2011 Brodosplit shipyard in Split, Croatia, handed over the most expensive (at a cost exceeding $150 million) and one of the most complex newbuildings in the shipyard’s history to its…

On our recent visit to Norway’s West Coast offshore shipbuilders, we inspected the Ulstein SX120 ship ‘Oceanic Sirius’, second of a pair of large, high-specification seismic vessels.

‘Rem Fortress’ is a new PSV delivered in the last quarter of 2011 by Kleven Maritime. She is sister to ‘Rem Commander’, delivered earlier in the year. Both ships were ordered in…

With mounting commercial and environmental pressure on the shipping industry to reduce emissions and fuel consumption, it’s encouraging to see that an increasing number of shipowners are ordering more efficient vessels.

In a rare reversal of fortunes for the UK shipbuilding industry, Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow, Scotland has been selected to build the world’s first two sea-going ro-ro diesel electric hybrid ferries.

A collaboration between Rolls-Royce and China’s Bestway Engineering has produced a number of energy efficient ship designs, primarily centred on coastal, regional and inland shipping, and intended to meet anticipated future requirements…

Caterpillar Marine Power Systems has won two significant orders for its 3500 series diesel electric propulsion engines to power offshore support vessels.

Swire Pacific Offshore Operations in Singapore recently took delivery of its latest platform supply vessel (PSV) from Universal Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in Japan.

The move towards energy-saving and environmental measures encompasses warships as well as commercial craft; in fact military vessels may have lessons in ‘green’ technology for the wider world, as Dag Pike reports.

The IHC Merwede shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands, recently delivered a trailing suction hopper dredger to the Belgian dredging company DEME (Dredging, Environmental & Marine Engineering) Group.

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) recently completed and delivered the latest example of its Mitsui 56 series bulk carrier ‘Diamond Jubilee’ (MES hull no 1780) at its Tamano Works to Helios Navigation…

German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has recently delivered the ro-ro freight ferry Seatruck Progress to Seatruck Ferries in the UK.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has developed a new bulk carrier which the Japanese shipbuilder claims will enable reductions in carbon emissions by about 25% compared with conventional standard bulk carriers.

Sauter Carbon Offset Design has released details of a VLCC design, which the company claims will be the largest and ‘greenest’ Post-Panamax vessel, and which will provide the most economic form of…

The ship design process is changing as new tools arrive on the market and computers get more powerful and faster, writes Mark Langdon, or maybe things change less than we think?

Elomatic of Finland outlines its Nupas-Cadmatic technology, which the company says addresses the need for global distribution of design and engineering work in the ship design process, particularly when several sites are…

Portsmouth, UK, based naval architect Hart Fenton & Co (HF) carried out research, in 2009, into available 3D software that could support its ship design activities.

Juliet Marine Systems (JMS) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, has now been able to release details of its ‘Ghost’ vessel concept, which it claims is the first super-cavitating craft, to the public…