CNOOC Energy has signed a project framework agreement with Nippon Yusen (NYK) and China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) LNG Project 4 Co. to establish an LNG carrier joint venture with a total investment of €412.6 million (around $446 million). According to a stock exchange filing from 24 August, t
Kirby Inland Marine, a subsidiary of Houston-based Kirby Corporation, christened the Green Diamond, the first US plug-in hybrid electric inland towing vessel at a ceremony held in Houston on Friday, August 25, 2023. Following the ceremony, the vessel will be time chartered by Shell Trading (US) Comp
Swedish shipping company Erik Thun has introduced new dry cargo vessels, a next-generation series of Lake Vanern Max, built at Shipyard Ferus Smit in the Netherlands.
China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has completed gas trials of the third LNG carrier built for CSSC Shipping, the financial leasing entity of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Hudong-Zhonghua said the vessel completed the gas trial in only five days and returned to the yard on 11 August
South Korea’s shipbuilding major HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediate holding company for shipbuilding under HD Hyundai, has constructed and delivered the world’s first ship equipped with an ‘AI engineer’. The company has delivered and installed an AI-based engine a
Boskalis has expanded its fleet with a new vessel currently getting ready to be converted from a pipe-laying vessel to a cable-laying one.
New Times Shipbuilding Co. (NTS) has delivered the sixth in a series of ten new eco-friendly tankers to Hong Kong-based leasing major China Development Bank Financial Leasing (CDB Leasing).
Norwegian shipowner MPC Container Ships (MPCC) has completed the acquisition of five eco-design vessels with the successful handover of AS Sabine.
Fujian’s first pure battery-powered cruise ship has been launched at Fujian Funing Shipbuilding Co., the battery-powered ship assembly base of Fujian Shipbuilding Industry Group Company.
Low and zero-emission fuels supplier Titan has performed its first ship-to-ship LNG bunker operations in Hamburg, Germany. The company said it performed its first-ever ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in Hamburg on 31 July to Vox Ariane, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The sec
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier MSXT Emily from Australian waters for one year, after finding several violations of the Maritime Labour Convention. Following a tip-off from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), AMSA inspec
Blue ammonia, an attractive fuel for the maritime industry, is expected to become available in significant quantities by 2027, with the potential for significant scale-up in production over subsequent years, according to a recent report by Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. The
China-based Chengxi Shipyard has completed the installation of Anemoi’s rotor sails on TR Lady, an 82,000 dwt Kamsarmax bulk carrier. The installation was completed in June 2023. TR Lady is owned by TR Lady Shipping Ltd, a portfolio company of Tufton Investment Management and is on a time charter wi
Towage operator Svitzer, part of A.P. Moller – Maersk, has launched the second phase of its project to design the world’s first methanol hybrid fuel cell (MHFC) tug. In the first phase, Svitzer conducted technical studies to establish the feasibility of this type of vessel accommodating the real-wor
