China Merchants Jingling Shipyard (Weihai) has delivered the ninth E-Flexer RoRo vessel, Santona, to its owner Stena RoRo. The online delivery signing ceremony was held on December 22. The dual-fuel LNG-powered ferry has been chartered by Brittany Ferries on a long-term basis. Stena RoRo has an agre
Dutch short sea shipping company Vertom Group has taken delivery of the first in a series of six diesel-electric dry bulk vessels from compatriot Thecla Bodewes Shipyards.
Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj has received an order to provide cargo pumps for seven LNG/LBG-fueled chemical and product tankers.
LNG development company Atlantic Gulf & Pacific (AG&P) has signed a charter agreement with ADNOC Logistics & Services (ADNOC L&S), the shipping unit of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, to utilise the latter’s LNG carrier as a floating storage unit (FSU) at its planned LNG import terminal in India
Classification society RINA has granted approval in principle (AiP) for Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding’s (SWS) very large crude carrier (VLCC) vessel design which can run on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydrogen.
ASYAD Shipping, a part of Oman’s national logistics provider ASYAD Group, has signed an agreement with South Korea’s Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries for the construction of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. According to a stock exchange filing, the order for two LNG carriers was placed on 21
Classification society Lloyd’s Register has awarded marine engineering company Datum Electronics type approval for its EEXI shaft power limitation (SHaPoLi) solution, a new technology designed to help shipowners comply with the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) regulations to reduce the ca
The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, Rocky Mountain Institute, Danish Shipping, and Maersk Oil Trading have initiated a project designing a maritime-specific Book & Claim project.
Japanese heavyweight Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), its group company Ferry Sunflower Limited, and Kyushu Electric Power Co. (Kyuden) have revealed that Sunflower Kurenai, Japan’s first LNG-fuelled ferry received its first LNG fuel supply.
LNG has been described as a transitional fuel for the shipping industry for years now, and a practical solution for shipowners who want to act now on their emissions and not wait on the side-lines. Nevertheless, as of recently, we are also seeing that LNG is becoming a fuel in transition as owners s
U.S.-based Vision Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Evolution Terminals BV, says to be on track to file the detailed environmental impact assessment for its energy project in the North Sea Port of Vlissingen, the Netherlands before January 31, 2023. Namely, Evolution Terminals is in advanc
ENGIE, Shell, Vopak and Anthony Veder have agreed to develop a green hydrogen logistic maritime corridor connecting the ports of Sines in Portugal and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The project named H2Sines.RDAM aims to produce green hydrogen on a unit located in Sines, convert it to liquefied hydro
Singapore-based shipyard group PaxOcean and French LNG containment specialist GTT have signed a technical service agreement that will enable PaxOcean to expand its repair scope by providing membrane tank maintenance and servicing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to be repaired in PaxOcean Bat
Two yards from Turkey have been removed from the EU List of Ship Recycling facilities as they failed to meet the requirements of the union’s ship recycling regulation. The European Commission said that one yard failed to sufficiently protect its employees’ working conditions, and the other was de-li
