Chinese shipyard Dalian Shipbuilding Industry & Co (DSIC) has ordered the tank design of two liquefied natural gas carriers (LNGC) from French LNG containment specialist GTT. The order, received at the beginning of 2023, came on behalf of the company CMES LNG Carrier Investment INC. GTT will design
Danish tanker company TORM has entered into agreements to acquire a total of seven 2011-2013 built LR1 vessels. The company will spend $233 million on the acquisition. According to TORM, all the vessels are built at renowned Korean and Chinese shipyards. The tankers are expected to be delivered no l
A group of eight marine insurers has released the first Annual Disclosure Report for Poseidon Principles for Marine Insurance, disclosing the climate alignment of their hull and machinery portfolios. The report surveys the portfolios of the framework’s signatories in what has been described as a ‘la
Turkey’s floating power plant company Karpower International (Karpowership) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with state-owned trader JSC Energy Company of Ukraine (ECU) to enhance electricity supply cooperation and accelerate the use of floating power stations to alleviate the nation’s
Geneva-based container shipping major MSC has reportedly returned to yards with a mammoth order comprising ten LNG-fuelled boxships. Shipbrokers say that the order involves Neopanamax vessels (11,400 TEU) and that the company is paying around $120 million per vessel. Chinese shipbuilder Zhoushan Cha
Dutch ship design company AURELIA, has joined forces with naval architecture designer NEPA SHIPPING, and ALOFT SYSTEMS, experts in sails and weather routing, on a green retrofitting project involving a 205,000 dwt bulk carrier. The project set out to demonstrate how a combination of innovative solut
UK consortium, including engineering company MAHLE Powertrain and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has launched a project to develop sustainable propulsion solutions for retrofit to high-performance marine vessels where batteries and other electrified technologies may not prove practical.
Singapore-based Pacific International Lines (PIL) has partnered with Lloyd’s Register’s fleet optimisation experts, i4 Insight, to help it reduce emissions and maximise fleet performance with a four-year fleet-wide agreement. PIL recently opened a ‘Centre for Maritime Efficiency (CME) which is power
German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with compatriot energy company Mabanaft to explore options for the supply of ammonia as bunker fuel to Hapag-Lloyd in and around the Port of Hamburg, Germany and also the Port of Houston, Texas, USA.
Wind propulsion systems developer Norsepower Oy has signed a contract with French ship owner and operator Socatra for the retrofit installation of two rotor sails on the medium range tanker Alcyone. The 50,000 dwt, 2022-built, French flag tanker, chartered by global energy company TotalEnergies, wil
Swiss-based container shipping giant MSC has the largest orderbook by far in the industry with 124 containerships on order. Namely, MSC has 14 megamax ships and 22 neo-panamax ships on order scheduled for delivery in 2023, according to Alphaliner. The orders are spread between Chinese and South Kore
Norway’s Simon Møkster Shipping has secured a contract extension for its multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) with an existing client. The offshore vessel owner reported that a sixth-month option had been declared for the Stril Explorer with an existing client, following a contract period of more tha
LNG Croatia, a state-owned operator of the Krk LNG terminal, has received the first cargo from Mozambique. The LNG cargo was delivered onboard the 2019-built carrier British Mentor on 23 January. According to the operator’s update, the British Mentor will leave the terminal on 25 January after deliv
Swedish Alfa Laval has developed separators and separator upgrades that are optimized for biofuels, which are seeing an increase in demand as shipowners seek solutions to decarbonize their operations. . The separators are compatible with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and fatty acid methyl ester (
