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2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

MAN Energy Solutions has announced the successful first running of a test engine on ammonia at its Research Centre Copenhagen (RCC). The company reports that the successful combustion was performed on a…

13th July 2023

Groundbreaking First AEngine Test Completed

13th July 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Mercator Media is launching a new conference, Green Ports & Shipping Congress, to bring together shipowners, suppliers and port operators to encourage and promote collaboration. The conference recognises that many of the problems related to decarbonising…

13th July 2023

Mercator to launch new conference to break down silos between ports and shipowners

13th July 2023

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) released a revised Energy Strategy at the beginning of July, earmarking investments of up to US$54 billion into the country’s renewables sector by 2030. Among the projects, the…

13th July 2023

UAE increases hydrogen ambitions in revised Energy Strategy

13th July 2023

REGULATION

REGULATION

The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has welcomed the IMO’s confirmation that bunker delivery notes are acceptable in both paper and digital form.

12th July 2023

e-Bunker delivery notes confirmed as acceptable

12th July 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

An innovative ammonia-fuelled containership design from Korea Maritime Consultants Co., Ltd. (KOMAC) was granted Approval in Principle (AIP) by ABS in May 2023.

12th July 2023

ABS AiP for NH3-fuelled containership design

12th July 2023

SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

Evergreen Shipping’s subsidiary Evergreen Marine (Asia) has placed an order with Samsung Heavy Industries for 16 x 16,000 teu container vessel newbuildings, and a separate order for 8 x 16,000 teu with Japan’s…

12th July 2023

SHI lands 16 x MeOH-fuelled 16,000 teu order from Evergreen

12th July 2023

REGULATION

REGULATION

Proposals to designate the Canadian Arctic, the North-East Atlantic Ocean and the remaining Norwegian coast not already covered by existing ECAs as Emissions Control Areas are likely to be submitted to the IMO’s next…

12th July 2023

New ECA proposals to be submitted at MEPC 81

12th July 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

The first low-pressure ME-GA engine has successfully completed LNG gas trials in South Korea, MAN ES has announced.

12th July 2023

First ME-GA engine completes gas trials

12th July 2023

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

This week the European Parliament will formalise two important port regulations on alt fuels and shore power.

11th July 2023

European ports express trepidation over shore power regulations

11th July 2023

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

RWE, Mitsui and the UK’s Port of Tilbury have signed an agreement to investigate the potential of renewable hydrogen for both port infrastructure and the creation of a hydrogen plant.

11th July 2023

UK port to investigate the potential of green hydrogen

11th July 2023

CONVENTIONAL FUELS & OILS

CONVENTIONAL FUELS & OILS

A contamination that has caused fuel system and engine problems on 11 vessels that took on bunkers in Houston between March and May has been identified by Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS).

11th July 2023

Bunker contamination issue linked to Houston supplier

11th July 2023

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

The Swedish port of Gävle has become one of the first in the world to successfully connect a tanker vessel to shore-based power.

11th July 2023

Swedish port completes shore-power operation for tanker

11th July 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK government has committed a further £34 million under the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CDMC) to help decarbonise the maritime sector.

10th July 2023

£34 million available in latest round of CMDC funding

10th July 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Thordon has played a pivotal role in the repairs to a workboat with the first application of the company’s new seal-embedding bearing on an articulating rudder.

10th July 2023

Thordon bearings for articulating rudder

10th July 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DNV has decided to launch a Recommended Practice (RP) offering that aims to produce a method to measure and evaluate the technical performance of ships and to address some of the shortcomings that…

10th July 2023

DNV plans to launch VTI to help industry’s decarb drive

10th July 2023

SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

Marseilles-based Compagnie du Ponant, operator of expedition-type small cruise ships, plans to order a newbuild melding a raft of advanced and groundbreaking technologies focused on decarbonisation.

10th July 2023

Cruise Line Fosters Zero-Carbon Approach

10th July 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Ranked among the world’s most prolific manufacturers of large marine engines, Mitsui E&S (MES) produced 136 two-stroke units totalling 2.83m bhp (2.11m kW) under its MAN licence in the past financial year.…

10th July 2023

Mitsui Augments Engine Production Range

10th July 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

P&O Ferries has confirmed its long-term commitment to its North Sea routes by extending the charter agreement with Bore on the MS ‘Norsky’ and MS ‘Norstream’.

7th July 2023

P&O Ferries renews North Sea contracts

7th July 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

MAN Energy Solutions (MAN ES) has successfully started up combustion on a 2-stroke test engine operating on ammonia as fuel using the liquefied gas injection (LGI) combustion strategy, the company confirmed.

7th July 2023

MAN ES Uses LGI Strategy For 1st Ammonia Combustion

7th July 2023

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

Japanese ship operator IINO Lines and power utility J-POWER have signed an agreement with Norsepower Oy to install a Norsepower Rotor Sail on board a coal carrier, Yodohime. The installation will be the…

7th July 2023

IINO Lines to retrofit Norsepower Rotor Sail on bulker

7th July 2023