Singaporean shipping company Pacific International Lines (PIL) and China’s bunkering supplier Shanghai SIPG Energy Service (SSES) have completed the inaugural bunkering of PIL’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered container vessel, Kota Eagle.
Japan’s shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has held a naming ceremony for a newbuild liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier at the Geoje Shipyard of South Korea’s shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean. With the naming ceremony out of the way, the next item on the agenda for MOL’s Marvel Swallow LNG carrier, s
UK’s remote robotics company HonuWorx is planning to develop a fleet of autonomous submarines that will perform services across the oil & gas, offshore wind, and defense sectors, targeting 50 units in the long term. In what the company describes as an industry-first, HonuWorx deployed a remotely ope
Greek shipping company Globus Maritime has signed, through two separate subsidiaries, memoranda of agreement to acquire two Kamsarmax scrubber-fitted dry bulk vessels.
The Netherlands-based shipping company Longship has taken delivery of the second of a series of four ultra-low-emission, diesel-electric newbuildings from Türkiye’s Atlas Shipyard. As disclosed, the 8,600 dwt general cargo vessel, dubbed the Longeon, was handed over on October 25, 2024. It is part o
French maritime firm Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has celebrated the beginning of the construction of the first low-carbon roll-on /roll-off (RoRo) vessel to be chartered to European aerospace giant Airbus. The steel cutting ceremony for the first of three low-carbon vessels equipped with wind-assi
Swedish shipping company Stena RoRo has taken delivery of a new E-Flexer roll-on/roll-off passenger (RoPax) vessel, which will be powered multi-fuel engine and a battery package, from the Chinese shipyard CMI Jinling (Weihai).
German shipbuilder Meyer Werft has delivered the second LNG-powered cruise ship, Disney Treasure, to U.S.-based Disney Cruise Line. Disney Treasure was delivered on October 24, 2024, earlier than contractually agreed, according to Meyer Werft. The ship featuring 1,240 cabins, a size of 144,000 GT, a
Japanese companies Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsubishi Corporation have entered into an agreement to jointly study the efficient operation of clean ammonia carriers and transshipment terminals as well as the structuring of a low-carbon ammonia supply chain. In addition to the efficient operation of clean
Chinese shipbuilder Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore ＆ Engineering (CIMC SOE) has laid the keel for a 1,450 TEU dual-fuel containership. The ceremony was held on the company’s West Area Shipway on October 18, 2024, after which full-scale construction work on the new vessel is to proceed. Offshore E
Public ferry service provider San Francisco Bay Ferry (SF Bay Ferry) has received a $12.5 million grant to set up electric vessel charging infrastructure at the Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal in Alameda as part of the Rapid Electric Emission-Free Ferry (REEF) Program. SF Bay Ferry’s REEF Program includes
Norwegian marine geoscience and technology company Shearwater GeoServices has secured its second contract with French energy giant TotalEnergies for a project offshore Angola. The project will include a three-month deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) survey covering the Golfinho and Cameia fields, loc
Construction has commenced on Norled’s new battery-powered ferries at Türkiye’s Tersan Shipyard, part of Tersan Group.
Türkiye’s Uzmar Shipyard has handed over its eco-friendly tugboat to Spain’s maritime company P&O Reyser, which operates under the UAE-based DP World’s subsidiary P&O Maritime Logistics, allowing the company to take a step closer toward ‘safe and sustainable’ operations in one of Spain’s busiest por
