Evergreen Line has taken delivery of two new 12,000 TEU class F-type containerships featuring optimized hull design and smart ship system. Ever Forever was built at the Geoje Shipyard of Samsung Heavy Industries, while Ever Far was delivered by Imabari Shipbuilding. They are the sixth and seventh ve
Lean Marine and AI-application developers Molflow have joined forces with the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg to develop an AI-powered, semi-autonomous system for planning and executing sea voyages. The Via Kaizen project is funded by the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverke
The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) Board of Directors has decided to move forward with the next stage of the shore power project for the Victoria Cruise Terminal at The Breakwater District, British Columbia, Canada.
Grimaldi Euromed, a subsidiary of the Grimaldi Group specializing in the maritime transport of passengers and RORO cargo, has won a €35 million ($42.5 million) loan facility from CaixaBank S.A. The loan is intended to finance the acquisition of a new Roll-on/Roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel Eco Barcelona. Th
NYK and its group companies have completed a second test of the remote navigation of a tugboat as part of the Japanese government’s project for the realization of autonomous ships by 2025.
Another desktop trial in Just-In-Time (JIT) ship operations has yielded positive results, showing that vessel emissions can be cut considerably, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said.
Russian technology company Kronshtadt Technologies has entered into agreements to equip a series of cargo and passenger ships with autonomous navigation systems.
The Ocean Cleanup and Konecranes have partnered up to design, manufacture, and service The Ocean Cleanup’s Interceptor, which will be extracting plastic from rivers before entering the ocean.
Leading Japanese shipbuilders are joining forces in an initiative aimed at integrating accumulated expertise to design and build state-of-the-art ships compliant with the ever more stringent environmental regulations. The organization, named Planning and Design Center for Greener Ships, includes nin
On 9 December 2020, the European Commission presented its new mobility strategy, charting a course for shipping and the rest of the EU transport sector out of the COVID-19 crisis.
The Port of Los Angeles is about to get a Port Cyber Resilience Center (CRC) which will be designed and operated by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). The move is being announced on the back of the official approval of the project with IBM by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commi
DCSA has published data and process standards for the submission of shipping instructions and issuance of the bill of lading (B/L).
Finnish engineering majors Konecranes and Cargotec have won approval from the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority for their merger prospectus. The merger was announced in October this year. The proposed combination is scheduled to be implemented as a statutory absorption merger whereby Konecrane
Boskalis will add a multipurpose DP2 vessel Boka Tiamat to its fleet in January 2021, the company said via social media on 3 December, and will deploy the vessel on offshore wind projects in Taiwan. The offshore construction vessel was built by VARD BRATVAAG and delivered as a new-build in 2019. It
