J. Lauritzen, a Danish investment company focused on maritime industries, has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with Japanese shipbuilder Tsuneishi Shipbuilding for the construction of methanol dual-fuel bulk carriers. The LoI includes the construction of minimum two methanol dual-fuel 81,200 dwt Kams
Turkish Uzmar Shipyard has held a steel-cutting ceremony for Turkey’s first dual-fuel tugboat, being built for BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS), the state-owned crude oil and natural gas pipelines and trading company. The shipyard will build two Voith tractor-type propeller tugboats that
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a global green energy company, has secured renewable power for its proposed Holmaneset green energy project by entering into a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Statkraft, a supplier of renewable energy. Under the conditional agreement, Statkraft is exp
Singapore shipowner Consort Bunkers has signed a contract with China Merchants Industry Nanjing Jinling Shipyard for six 6,500-ton methanol fuel bunkering ships. The 6,500-ton methanol fueling ships have a total length of 103.88 meters, a molded width of 19.00 meters, and a design draft of 7.00 mete
Japanese oil and gas company Inpex has shipped the 500th LNG cargo from its Ichthys LNG project in Australia. According to the company’s social media update, the milestone was reached on 31 March when the cargo departed onshore processing facilities near Darwin. The 2021-built 174,000 cbm floating s
China’s Wuhu Shipyard has inked a contract for the construction of eight 18,500-ton IMO Class II chemical tankers during the first quarter of this year. The shipbuilder did not disclose the names of the owners behind the orders, only revealing that the companies in question were ‘prominent domestic
Japan’s Anegasaki thermal power station new unit 2, an LNG-fired power station which energy company JERA has been replacing through its subsidiary JERA Power Anegasaki, has started commercial operation. New unit 2 uses a gas turbine combined-cycle power generation system (GTCC) and has a generating
South Korean shipbuilding company Samsung Heavy Industries has secured an order for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers.
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Norway’s H2Carrier and Sweden’s Trelleborg Gas Transfer have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on ship-to-ship ammonia transfer solutions. The two companies will collaborate in developing a safe, reliable, and efficient solution for side-by-side offloading of ammonia when opera
Alternative fuel ships have accounted for around 60% of new orders since the start of 2022 in GT, primarily driven by LNG dual-fuel vessel orders, and increasingly methanol, and now account for 5% of fleet GT and 47% of orderbook, data from Clarksons shows. Looking at the fleet profile, the shipbrok
Yara Clean Ammonia, a subsidiary of Norwegian fertiliser company Yara International, and Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline and energy company, have signed of a letter of intent to jointly develop and construct a world scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility as equal partners. According to Yara
Japanese shipbuilder Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has delivered the 84,000 cbm dual-fuel liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier, Captain Markos, to US-headquartered LPG shipping company Dorian LPG. The vessel, delivered on 31 March, is Dorian’s first dual-fuel very large gas carrier (VLGC) and wil
German shipyard Meyer Werft has laid keel for Disney Treasure, the second LNG-powered cruise ship it is building for US-based Disney Cruise Line. According to Meyer Werft, the keel laying ceremony took place on 31 March to celebrate the start of hull assembly for the new cruise ship by placing the f
