News

THRUSTERS & PROPULSORS

THRUSTERS & PROPULSORS

Kongsberg Maritime will supply a propulsion package for a specialised newbuild ship to be built by the Italian shipyard T.Mariotti for the Italian navy, including a pair of Elegance PM motor driven pods.

13th February 2023

KM propulsion package for Italian specialised vessel

13th February 2023

SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

Dutch heavy-lift fleet capacity and trading versatility has been strengthened by the delivery to Amsterdam-based Spliethoff of the Chinese-built Brouwersgracht.

13th February 2023

Agile Capacity For Offshore Lifts

13th February 2023

LNG

LNG

Resurgent German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has landed a major deal for a series of LNG bunker tankers. Three 4,500m3-capacity newbuilds have been ordered by a consortium made up of the German…

13th February 2023

LNG Barge Deal Boosts German Yard

13th February 2023

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Following several high-profile ship fires involving electric vehicles (EVs), a survival technology provider Survitec is advising operators of vessels transporting hybrid and EVs on how best to prevent and control fire onboard ships…

9th February 2023

Early Detection Key To Preventing Shipboard EV Fires

9th February 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Carnival Corporation has carried out a joint pilot project with Wärtsilä to reduce the amount of plastic being used in marine operations. The aim of the project is to boost maritime sustainability…

9th February 2023

Carnival in plastic waste reduction pilot project

9th February 2023

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

The Liberian Registry awarded an Approval in Principle (AIP) to Anemoi Marine Technologies for their Rotor Sail systems on 25 January.

9th February 2023

LISCR AiP for Anemoi rotor sails

9th February 2023

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The innovative hybrid wellboat Bakkafossur was added to Faroese shipowner Bakkafrost’s fleet in Janaury 2023. The 109-metre long live fish carrier has been designed with an eye on future developments in the offshore fish farming…

9th February 2023

Faroese future-fuel ready live fish carrier

9th February 2023

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Spanish shipbuilding has given new dimension to its capabilities by delivering a 5,000m3-capacity LNG bunker tanker, the first-ever produced by the industry. The 93m Haugesund Knutsen will supply LNG to gas-fuelled cruise…

9th February 2023

Boost To Spanish LNG Bunkering Role

9th February 2023

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Hapag-Lloyds’s Fleet Upgrade Program will see 100 ships retrofitted with new propellers and bulbous bows reducing green house gas emissions across its vessels.

8th February 2023

Hapag-Lloyd launches huge fleet sustainability drive

8th February 2023

CARBON CAPTURE

CARBON CAPTURE

A project to install an assymetric wingsail alongside a new onboard carbon capture and storage system on a container vessel powered by synthetic fuel has been awarded funding from a French public investment…

8th February 2023

GTT awarded funding to design on-board CCS system

8th February 2023

BIOFUELS

BIOFUELS

TotalEnergies Marine Fuels has concluded its first refuelling of a Hapag-Lloyd containership with biofuel in Singapore’s port waters. The bunkering marks the start of a term supply agreement between the two companies.

8th February 2023

First Singaporean Biofuel Bunkering For Hapag-Lloyd Boxship

8th February 2023

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

A Sweden-based fuel cell supplier, PowerCell Sweden AB, has been selected as the preferred supplier of two 6MW fuel cell systems for a pair of hydrogen-powered fuel cell ferries.

8th February 2023

Fuel cell supplier selected for Norwegian ferry project

8th February 2023

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

ExxonMobil Marine’s implementation of Palantir Technologies’ Foundry software aims to provide additional operational insight from cylinder condition monitoring data by comparing customer results with similar engines in ExxonMobil’s historic database.

7th February 2023

Big data holds the key to learning more from scrape-down oil analysis

7th February 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Damen has developed a vessel concept, the FLOW-SV, which is specially designed to install ground tackles for offshore turbine floaters.

7th February 2023

Damen introduces floating offshore wind support vessel

7th February 2023

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

The first retrofit installation of an inline shaft generator has been completed alongside the installation of an air lubrication system aboard Berge Bulk’s Capesize carrier, Berge Toubkai.

7th February 2023

First inline shaft generator retrofit completed on Berge Bulk vessel

7th February 2023

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Guangdong) has announced that has been awarded the contract to retrofit the main engines aboard two LPG carriers operated by Tianjin Southwest Maritime Ltd., the Chinese gas carrier operator.

7th February 2023

Tianjin Southwest opts for further LPG retrofits

7th February 2023

CARBON CAPTURE

CARBON CAPTURE

A subsidiary of Nikkiso Co.Ltd, Nikkiso CE&IG, has completed the acquisition of a Germany-based gas solutions specialist, Cryotec Anlagenbau GmbH. Cryotec supplies planning, project management, manufacturing and engineering services of skid-mounted/containerized air separation…

7th February 2023

Nikkiso acquisition extends CO2 offering

7th February 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

DNV has released a white paper advising India on ways to build a greener shipping sector.

6th February 2023

DNV advises India on greener shipping

6th February 2023

METHANOL

METHANOL

Dutch fuel producer OCI has joined forces with barge operator Unibarge to develop ‘Europe’s first’ dual-fuel bunker barge powered by green methanol

6th February 2023

Europe’s ‘first’ green methanol powered bunker barge

6th February 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The UK government has launched a zero-emission vessel competition with co-funding of up to £77 million ($92.6m) for successful applicants. The ZEVI fund is offering funding to demonstration projects across three separate categories (or strands) including full-electric…

6th February 2023

UK government launches zero emission vessel competition

6th February 2023