Repair & Conversion – Page 15
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NewsDutch Training Vessel Features PEM FC
Practical, long-term thinking as regards the next generation of maritime personnel is exemplified by the late addition of a PEM Fuel Cell installation in a newly-completed, innovative Dutch training vessel.
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NewsMethanol For New German Research Ship
Germany’s first methanol-fuelled, sea-going ship is set for handover next month. Built on the River Weser at the Fassmer shipyard, the 36m Uthorn will join the research vessel fleet deployed by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)’s Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research at Bremerhaven.
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NewsJapanese Produce Wide-Body Kamsarmax
Japan’s Tsuneishi Shipbuilding has delivered the first of a new design of bulk carrier that offers a substantial uplift in cargo capacity within the Kamsarmax category. Dubbed the Wide Kamsarmax, the latest series has made its debut by way of the 88,939dwt Persistence Diva, completed at the group’s Numakuma yard ...
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NewsFuretank and Algoma order four more DF tankers
Swedish Furetank and Canadian Algoma Central Corporation have expanded the FureBear joint venture to include another four dual-fuel product tankers to trade in Northern Europe.
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NewsViking Neptune to test fuel cell technology
Viking Neptune, the newest ocean cruise ship which Fincantieri has built for the shipowner Viking, has been delivered with a test installation of a hydrogen-powered fuel cell.
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NewsStena and OljOla team up on methanol bunker tanker
Sweden-based Stena Oil, Stena Teknik and OljOla are entering into a new joint venture agreement for a 2,000dwt oil and chemical tanker to supply bunker fuels in the north European region.
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NewsHalten Bulk to order two H2-fuelled bulk vessels
Halten Bulk has received NOK 142 million in grants from the Norwegian government’s innovation fund ENOVA to build two hydrogen-fuelled bulk vessels.
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NewsMSC Cruiseship Showcases LNG Uptake
Bastion of French commercial shipbuilding, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, has handed over the largest cruise ship to date powered by LNG-fuelled engines. The 215,863gt MSC World Europa also features an LNG-fed fuel cell that will serve as a technology demonstrator.
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NewsCruise Newcomer Looks To Fincantieri
Canadian international hotel and resort company Four Seasons is entering the top end of the cruise market with a newbuild from Italy.
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NewsMatson orders three LNG-fuelled containerships
Matson, Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Matson Navigation Company, Inc., a leading US carrier in the Pacific, has signed contracts with Philly Shipyard Inc. to build three new 3,600 TEU Aloha Class containerships for an aggregate price of approximately US$1 billion.
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NewsCarnival Celebration delivered
Meyer Turku has delivered the LNG-fuelled Carnival Celebration to Carnival Cruise Line, the 25th ship in its fleet.
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NewsNYK to order two LNG-fuelled large coal carriers
NYK has announced that it will order two LNG-fuelled 95,000dwt coal carriers from Oshima Shipbuilding.
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NewsThird LNG-fuelled PCTC delivered
UECC has taken delivery of its third and final newbuild LNG battery hybrid pure car and truck carrier (PCTC).
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NewsLNG, ammonia-ready VLCC delivered
Capital Ship Management has taken delivery of the newbuilding vessel Alterego, a 300,000 dwt, eco-type crude oil, scrubber fitted VLCC tanker, built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, South Korea.
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NewsEuronav orders LNG, ammonia, methanol-ready vessels
Euronav has ordered two future-fuel ready Suezmax tankers from Daehan Shipbuilding.
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NewsNew Showcase For Spanish Ocean Research
Spanish capability for oceanographic research is set to be enhanced by an 85m newbuild laid down this month at Vigo. Ordered from Astilleros Armon to the account of the Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia (IEO), the Odon de Buen will become the country’s largest and most advanced research ship on scheduled ...
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NewsTurkish Yard Lands Diesel-Electric Coasters
Vigorous Dutch reinvestment in short-sea trading capacity has yielded a construction programme for the Turkish shipbuilding industry. Delfzijl-based Amasus Shipping has contracted with compatriot Handelskade Shipsales and Bogazici Shipyard, on Turkey’s Sea of Marmara, for a series of 4,100dwt multi-purpose vessels.
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NewsPockets Of Endeavour In Southern Asia
Against the backcloth of a raft of bankruptcies and closures within the private sector in recent years, and the continuing monopoly of government contracts by publicly-owned yards, elements of India’s shipbuilding industry indicate its capabilities and potential.
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NewsEmission-Free Fast Ferry Makes Debut
As the outcome of an EU-funded research initiative for the design and production of a seminal, electric high-speed lightweight ferry, the 31m catamaran Medstraum is now set to show her mettle and act as a technology demonstrator in west Norwegian local service.
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NewsItalian Yard Maintains Ro-Pax Momentum
French ferry operator Corsica Linea is set to commission the latest ro-pax delivery from Cantiere Navale Visentini in northeast Italy. While a further derivative of the Visentini class widely used in European short-sea trades, the 206m A.Galeotta has been customised to the owner’s service between Marseilles and the Corsican ports ...
