The Finnish shipping company ESL Shipping, part of Aspo, and Hamburg-based Nauticor, a unit of Linde, have signed a long-term contract for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Swedish port of Oxelösund. Under the deal, Nauticor will provide LNG for ESL Shipping’s handy size bulk carriers Haa
GasLog Partners, the New York-listed spinoff of LNG shipper GasLog, said Thursday it entered into an agreement with GasLog to buy 100 percent of the shares in the entity that owns and charters the LNG carrier Methane Becki Anne to Shell. The Methane Becki Anne is a 170,000-cbm tri-fuel diesel electr
Rolls-Royce said Thursday it won a contract to provide power and propulsion for four Havila Kystruten’s liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled Ro-Pax vessels. From January 2021, Havila Kystruten will operate these four ships of Havyard 923 design on the coastal route between the cities of Bergen in sout
Sovcomflot’s crude oil tanker Gagarin Prospect, operating on LNG fuel, completed its voyage across the Baltic and North Seas from Primorsk to Rotterdam on October 22. The vessel delivered a cargo of 104,815 tonnes of crude oil to Rotterdam. For the LNG-powered tanker, it marked its first export deli
Norway-based FSRU giant Höegh LNG confirmed Wednesday it has chartered its Höegh Gallant FSRU to Clearlake Shipping, a unit of the Switzerland-based energy trading company Gunvor. To remind, Höegh LNG said last week that the floating regasification and storage unit would be chartered to a third part
The UK’s Dragon liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is scheduled to receive a cargo of the chilled fuel from Egypt next week. Maran Gas Maritime’s newbuild, the 173,400-cbm Maran Gas Spetses is expected to arrive at the Dragon LNG facility in the Port of Milford Haven on October 31, according to th
Law firm Watson Farley & Williams said it has advised Norway’s Höegh LNG on the recent $200 million debt financing for its ninth floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU). The 170,000-cbm FSRU to be named Höegh Gannet is currently under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.
Damen Shipyards Mangalia, Romania, recently held a keel-laying ceremony for the Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) ‘CEMEX Go Innovation’. The keel laying ceremony involved three coins, a UK £1, a Dutch GUILDER and a Romanian LEU being welded into the keel of the new dredger. Mark Williams, Fleet Enginee
French LNG containment specialist GTT has secured a new order from the Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering for the tank design of a 173,400-cbm liquefied natural gas carrier. GTT said in a statement on Monday that the LNG carrier would be built by DSME on behalf of a European
Spanish shipping company Baleària will convert its three ferries from diesel to liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel using Caterpillar and MaK solutions. Hamburg-based Caterpillar Marine said in a statement that its dealer Finanzauto will perform the engine conversion, with work on the ships scheduled t
Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque, part of the Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen, is moving forward with works on converting the trailing suction hopper dredger Samuel de Champlain from diesel-electric propulsion to dual-fuel capability. Once complete, the Samuel de Champlain will be the first dredger in Euro
The launching ceremony of the Spartacus – the world’s most powerful cutter suction dredger – is set to take place on Saturday, November 10, 2018. The 164 meters long dredger, built for DEME at the Royal IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, will have a heavy-duty cutter ladder and can reach a dred
Wasa Dredging, a Finnish water construction company, today unveiled a photo of their backhoe dredger ‘Harald’ equipped with the new environmental bucket. According to the company, this new bucket will enable the vessel to handle its first job, the extensive environmental dredging in the Port of Kokk
Babcock Schulte Energy’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering vessel Kairos has set off on its voyage from South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard to Europe.
