U.S.-based cruise shipping company Disney Cruise Line has decided to acquire cruise ship Global Dream, currently under construction at German shipyard Meyer Werft
Circular Maritime Technologies (CMT), a Dutch startup targeting to automate shipbreaking processes, has secured an EU subsidy that would help the company take the project to the next stage of development. CMT said that it won a subsidy as part of the Kansen voor West III, a program largely financed
Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2022 (OEEC) will open its doors in less than two weeks. On the 29 & 30 November, the entire industry comes together in RAI Amsterdam to connect, discuss, share knowledge, meet and network. Content program Different markets meet under one roof to foster bus
Following a drone attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman, the U.S. Central Command has put the blame on Iran.
NACKS, a joint venture between Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation and COSCO Shipping, has launched a new 24,000 TEU containership built for Hong Kong-based shipowner Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL).
Greek shipowner Safe Bulkers has placed an order for additional Alfa Laval PureSOx exhaust gas cleaning systems bringing the number of vessels to be fitted with the systems to 25. The company has just installed its 21st PureSOx scrubber, and four more retrofits are scheduled through the first half o
Norwegian provider of shortsea RoRo transportation United European Car Carriers (UECC) has held a naming ceremony for its second dual-fuel LNG battery hybrid pure car and truck carrier (PCTC).
China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES), BHP and DNV have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on industry value chain greenhouse gas (GHG) management. The signing took place in conjunction with the second World Maritime Merchants Forum in Hongkong, organized by CMES. The MOU see
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has handed over MSC Seascape to MSC Cruises at a ceremony held at Fincantieri’s yard in Monfalcone. MSC Seascape is the second ship of the Seaside EVO class, an evolution of the Seaside class and joins the sister ships MSC Seaside and MSC Seaview, which entered servic
Danish shipping companies have 51 new vessels under construction, and 25 of them can sail on green fuels, according to a new analysis from Danish Shipping, a trade and employer organisation for more than 90 shipowners and offshore companies. Right now, there is a total of orders for 51 new vessels f
Danish container shipping major A.P. Moller – Maersk has entered into a green methanol partnership with U.S.-based project developer Carbon Sink LLC. The parties have signed a Letter of Intent covering Carbon Sink’s development of green methanol production facilities in the United States. The first
Sri Lanka-based shipbuilder Colombo Dockyard has laid the keel of the fourth vessel in the eco bulk carrier series built for Norwegian shipowner Misje Rederi AS.
Singapore-based ship management company Eastern Pacific Shipping is investigating an incident involving its managed product tanker Pacific Zircon. “Preliminary reports indicate the vessel, carrying a cargo of gas oil, was hit by a projectile approximately 150 miles off the coast of Oman at about 15:
Seaspan Corporation took delivery of its final 11,800 TEU containership from a series of six ultra-large containerships ordered from Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group. The New Panamax container vessel was named ZIM Canada at a ceremony held on November 8, as it would be ope
