CNOOC Energy has signed a project framework agreement with Nippon Yusen (NYK) and China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) LNG Project 4 Co. to establish an LNG carrier joint venture with a total investment of €412.6 million (around $446 million). According to a stock exchange filing from 24 August, t
China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has completed gas trials of the third LNG carrier built for CSSC Shipping, the financial leasing entity of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Hudong-Zhonghua said the vessel completed the gas trial in only five days and returned to the yard on 11 August
Low and zero-emission fuels supplier Titan has performed its first ship-to-ship LNG bunker operations in Hamburg, Germany. The company said it performed its first-ever ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in Hamburg on 31 July to Vox Ariane, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The sec
Blue ammonia, an attractive fuel for the maritime industry, is expected to become available in significant quantities by 2027, with the potential for significant scale-up in production over subsequent years, according to a recent report by Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. The
Scottish wave energy specialist Mocean Energy and Norway-based offshore energy services provider Aker Solutions Subsea have teamed up to explore how locally generated wave energy can extend the lifetime of existing oil and gas hubs by accessing stranded reserves. To this end, the two companies signe
Taiwanese shipping firm Evergreen Marine Corp. (EMC) held an official opening ceremony for the newly built Terminal 7 at Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan, on Monday, August 14. This is the first and largest fully-automated container terminal equipped with remote-controlled gantry cranes in Taiwan. The facilit
Following the carbon storage license award to progress the Poseidon project over the Leman fields, Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst have secured two further CO2 storage licenses in the Southern North Sea sector of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The Orion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project enco
Towage operator Svitzer, part of A.P. Moller – Maersk, has launched the second phase of its project to design the world’s first methanol hybrid fuel cell (MHFC) tug. In the first phase, Svitzer conducted technical studies to establish the feasibility of this type of vessel accommodating the real-wor
Japanese shipping company NYK Line and compatriot TB Global Technologies (TBG) have signed a basic agreement to jointly develop Japan’s first bunkering boom for ammonia, a device used to supply ammonia fuel between ships. A bunkering boom for ammonia is a device consisting of rigid pipes and hoses t
LNG-fueled cruise ship Silver Nova, the first in the future line of Nova class ships for Monaco-based Silversea Cruises, has started its maiden voyage. The ship started its maiden voyage on 14 August, departing Venice, Italy, and will sail on a seven-day roundtrip through the Adriatic. It will call
Elliott Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ebara Corporation, has secured an order to supply cryogenic rotating equipment for the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project being developed by Sempra Infrastructure in Jefferson County, Texas. Elliott said it was awarded the contract by Bechtel Energy, a compan
Eco Wave Power has connected its wave energy plant to Israel’s national electrical grid, making it the first wave energy project to deliver electricity to the country’s power supply.
Dubai-based port operator DP World expects to add approximately 3 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) of new container handling capacity by the end of the year. The company currently manages approximately 9% of the world’s handling capacity, putting it among the top five global port operator
Maritime fuel supplier Peninsula has concluded its first biofuel deal for Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line). On 11 August, Peninsula arranged the delivery of 700 tons of UCOME-based B24 marine biofuel to K Line’s oceangoing bulk carrier M/V Cape Amal in Hong Kong through local
