
French shipyard Piriou has secured a contract with a sailing freight transport company TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) for the design studies and the construction of an 81-metre sailing cargo ship.

The construction of the largest US-built liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering barge began at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on 6 January.

Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and compatriot general trading firm ITOCHU Corporation have acquired approval in principle (AIP) from classification society ABS for an ammonia bunkering vessel.

French shipping company CMA CGM has welcomed the third in a series of five 15,000 TEU LNG-powered container ships built at the Chinese Jiangnan Shipyard.

Maersk has declared options with South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for an additional four 16,000 TEU methanol-powered containerships.

Chinese shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua has signed its largest LNG carrier shipbuilding order to date with Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL).

Korean shipyard Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI) has received $1.3 billion worth of shipbuilding work that includes six Very Large Container Ships (VLCS) and one Liquefied Natural Gas carrier (LNGC).

South Korean Hyundai Heavy Industry (HHI) Group has teamed up with the classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) to work on real-life trials of autonomous ship technologies.

Equinor’s FPSO vessel for the Johan Castberg project, located in the Barents Sea, has left the dock at a shipyard in Singapore.

Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has renewed cooperation with the leasing entity of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) Group by securing a contract for new liquified natural gas (LNG) ship.

Sembcorp Marine has completed the Vito Regional Production Facility (Vito RPF) for Shell’s deepwater project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Jan De Nul has launched Les Alizés, a next-generation floating offshore installation vessel for offshore renewables and decommissioning, at the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China. Les Alizés will be the largest heavy lift vessel in Jan De Nul’s fleet, able to install XXL offshore wind components in float

The construction of the first of ten 15,000 TEU LNG-fuelled “green” containerships chartered by the Israeli shipping company ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM) has begun.

Hong Kong-based operator and owner of containerships Seaspan, a subsidiary of Atlas, has secured $1.4 billion in finances to build ten LNG-fueled vessels.