
Norwegian shipping company Havila Voyages has informed that its newbuild eco-friendly hybrid-powered cruise vessel, Havila Capella, began the maiden voyage.

Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has ordered tank design for two new LNG carriers from the French LNG containment specialist GTT.

Aasfjell, a battery hybrid bulk carrier newbuild ordered by Norway’s shipping company Aasen Shipping, has left the Royal Bodewes shipyard in Hoogezand, the Netherlands.

The world’s first methanol propelled pilot boat has been launched by the Fastwater project, a consortium of Europe’s maritime research and technology leaders set to demonstrate the feasibility of retrofit and newbuild vessels to operate on methanol.

French shipping major CMA CGM has taken delivery of CMA CGM Kimberley, the second in the series of five 15,000 TEU LNG-powered ships built at the Chinese Jiangnan Shipyard.

Danish ferry and logistics company DFDS has taken delivery of its newbuilt passenger vessel Aura Seaways.

Germany’s multipurpose shipping company United Heavy Lift GmbH (UHL) has taken delivery of MV UHL Fighter, the sixteenth unit in a series of seventeen F900 Eco-Lifters newbuilds.

Russia’s Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex held a keel-laying ceremony for the third ARC 7 icebreaking LNG carrier that will be servicing the Arctic LNG 2 project.

Greek shipping company Costamare has signed two shipbuilding contracts for the construction of a total of eight boxships.

French containment specialist GTT has received an LNG tank design order from the Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for two new Maran Gas LNG carriers.

Danish container shipping giant Maersk has presented the design of its next-generation large container vessels powered by carbon-neutral methanol.

Stena Drilling has revealed an agreement with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries related to an option to buy a newbuild drillship.

German shipping company Hartmann Reederei has taken delivery of GasChem Homer, the first in a series of three 5,000 cbm LPG carriers being built in China.

The Cruise Division of MSC Group and French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique have marked construction milestones for two liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fuelled newbuilds.