Dry bulk shipping company Golden Ocean Group (GOGL) and Belgian shipowner CMB.TECH have signed a term sheet for a contemplated merger, which is expected to create “one of the largest diversified listed maritime groups in the world” with a combined fleet of more than 250 vessels.
Disney Adventure, hailed as the first in the cruise industry to be powered by green methanol, has touched water for the first time as it left the Meyer Wismar construction hall in Germany. According to the US-based Disney Cruise Line, the soon-to-be 208,000 gross tons cruise ship was floated out of
The Port of Rotterdam, one of Europe’s major energy hubs, has partnered with Brazilian Vast Infraestrutura, a Prumo Group company providing oil transshipment services, to study the electrification of oil tankers at berth globally.
A German consortium consisting of the Institute for Micro Process Engineering and the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the KIT spin-off ICODOS and the Waste Water Department of the City of Mannheim have began operation of a demonstratio
California’s Port of Hueneme has received an additional $4 million in funding to complete its shore power project on North Terminal, aiming to reduce vessel emissions and improve air quality.
Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Dalian) has named and delivered a 77,000 dwt multipurpose pulp vessel ordered by the Bank of Communications (BoCom) Financial Leasing.
Swedish shipping company Terntank has taken delivery of its first Hybrid Solution Plus tanker with wind-assisted propulsion and a methanol-ready engine.
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding is progressing the construction of methanol-fueled vessels with the first block loading for a methanol-fueled 5,900 TEU containership at its base in China.
NCL Nordland, the second of two 1,300 TEU dual-fuel methanol containerships ordered by Norwegian container tonnage provider MPC Container Ships (MPCC), has been delivered in China.
Japan’s gas company Osaka Gas is set to offer shore-to-ship LNG bunkering services, becoming the ‘first’ gas utility company in the country to fuel vessels powered by liquefied natural gas directly from its own terminal infrastructure. According to the company, the inaugural delivery of this alterna
The first Japanese-developed and manufactured commercial full-scale, low-speed, ammonia-fueled two-stroke engine has started co-firing operation with ammonia ahead of installation on an actual vessel, Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) revealed.
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonization (GCMD) has unpacked a cost and compliance calculator aimed at exploring how the International Maritime Organization’s GHG Global Fuel Intensify (GFI)-linked pricing system could impact operational costs in shipping. As noted by the GCMD, the tool could
Hinicio, a Belgium-based consulting firm specializing in hydrogen and its derivatives, has outlined a series of recommendations aimed at supporting ports in Latin America and the Caribbean to play a central role in climate action and in advancing the hydrogen economy across the region.
A joint venture comprising NYK, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), MISC Berhad, and China LNG Shipping (Holdings) Limited (CLNG) has held a naming ceremony for a new LNG carrier built for QatarEnergy.
