
Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has ordered tank design for three new LNG carriers (LNGCs)from French containment specialist GTT.

U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation, one of Taiwan’s largest listed bulk carrier companies, has signed a $50 million sustainability-linked loan with ANZ Bank Taiwan to fund its fleet renewal plan.

Norwegian Greentech, a subsidiary of Hav Group ASA and supplier of sustainable systems for clean water, has secured a contract with shipbuilding group VARD to deliver the ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) to six marine robotic vessels that will be built at Vard Vung Tau in Vietnam.

Thai ship owner Regional Container Lines (RCL) has ordered two 7,000 TEU container ships from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS), a subsidiary of China CSSC Holding.

Greek containership owner Danaos Corporation has ordered two methanol ready 7,100 TEU containerships in China.

The construction of HaiSea Marine’s three zero-emission battery-powered harbour tugs has begun at the Sanmar Shipyard Tuzla in Turkey with a keel-laying ceremony.

Germany-based multipurpose shipping company United Heavy Lift (UHL) prefers methanol as marine fuel for its future fleet of vessels, Andreas Rolner, Managing Director of the company revealed in the HANSA podcast.

Safeen Group, the maritime services arm of AD Ports Group, has ordered a Tier III tugboat from the Turkish shipbuilder Med Marine to meet its growing service requirements.

German shipowner and operator Briese Schiffahrt and Norwegian privately owned investment firm Ness, Risan & Partners (NRP) have together acquired a resale eco-friendly Handysize dry bulk carrier.

Six Japanese companies have decided to form a strategic alliance aimed at reducing environmental impact through the development of the country’s first methanol-fueled tanker.

The UK government is planning to invest £4 billion (approximately $5.3 billion) in the country’s regional shipbuilding industry as it prepares to publish refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSbS).

Chinese Dalian Shipbuilding Industry has ordered two ME-GI dual-fuel engines from German MAN Energy Solution for the construction of two liquid CO2 carriers for Northern Lights, the joint venture between energy majors Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies.

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has won a contract for its exhaust gas cleaning systems to be installed on two newbuild roll-on/roll-off passenger vessels (RoPax) at Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) in China.

Industry partners Shif Clean Energy, SeaTech and energy company Vitol have teamed up for a marine electrification project to deliver Singapore’s first hybrid bunker tankers.