Environmental activists have boarded Boskalis vessel, which is transporting a circular FPSO destined for Shell’s oil & gas project off the UK.
Singapore-based shipowner Kumiai Navigation has doubled its order for dual-fuel VLGC newbuildings at Kawasaki Heavy Industries to two ships. Each vessel has a capacity of 86,700 cbm for LPG/liquefied ammonia gas. The first vessel from the series was ordered last year, and now the company has two VLG
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has secured a new order for the construction of two LNG carriers worth $500 million, which increased its earnings in orders to $2 billion in the first month of 2023. SHI received the order for two LNG carriers from an undisclosed Oceanian shipp
Ferry operator Irish Ferries has contracted tech provider Armada Technologies for a feasibility study and integration engineering for the Armada ‘passive air lubrication system’ (PALS) onboard their RoPax cruise ferry, W.B. Yeats.
Having aced its sea trials, Lady Maria Fisher, the second LNG dual-fuel tanker built for British marine engineering services provider James Fisher, has been delivered to its owner. The 6,000dwt LNG dual-fuel vessel was built by China Merchants Jinling (CMJL) shipyard in Yangzhou, China, and it was d
Japanese oil and shipping company Eneos has opened a demonstration plant in Brisbane, Australia, which will produce methylcyclohexane (MCH), a liquid hydrogen carrier. The use of MCH as a hydrogen carrier has the potential to simplify the storage and transportation of hydrogen, which is otherwise a
From the summer of 2023, the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s top bunkering port, will provide methanol bunkering to sea-going vessels on a regular basis. Last year saw several sea-going ships bunker methanol at the port, the port figures show, resulting in a total of 1,500 tons of methanol sold in 2022.
Design and engineering consultancy firm Houlder has completed a major design project for Shell International Trading and Shipping Company (Shell) for a 20,000 cbm liquid hydrogen (LH2) carrier.
Norwegian shipping company Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) will expand its roll-out of the semi-autonomous hull cleaning solution, Shipshave ITCH, with five additional robots to reduce hull fouling on its fleet.
Low and zero-emission fuels supplier Titan has acquired two small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers from Canadian gas transportation company Seapeak for bunkering retrofit. Titan plans to retrofit the vessels – Seapeak Unikum and Seapeak Vision – to ensure suitable LNG bunkering capabilitie
MISC Berhad (MISC), an owner and operator of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, has taken delivery of its new eco-efficient vessels, Seri Damai and Seri Daya.
The Finnish Climate Fund, a state-owned special assignment firm, will provide a capital loan of up to €10 million euros to rotor sail manufacturer Norsepower for increasing its production capacity. The capital loan comes with a market-based interest rate determined according to the risks of the proj
Gaslog Partners, an international owner and operator of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, has secured time charter agreements with several companies for its vessels. In its financial report which includes a three-month period and the year ended 31 December 2022, the partnership highlighted chart
Swiss marine power company WinGD and Belgian shipping and cleantech group CMB.TECH have signed an agreement on the development of ammonia-fuelled two-stroke engines. The companies aim to install the ammonia dual-fuel X72DF engine on a series of ten x 210,000 DWT bulk carriers to be built at a Chines
