Jan De Nul’s new 3,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Tristão da Cunha was launched yesterday at the Keppel Nantong shipyard in China, a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine. This green vessel is equipped with an exhaust gas treatment system filtering out and virtually eliminating many p
Keppel Offshore & Marine, shipbuilding unit, Keppel Singmarine, delivered its second dual-fuel tug capable of running on LNG to Maju Maritime, a company operationally merged with Keppel Smit Towage.
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) said on Monday it was selected by FueLNG to class Singapore’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge. The vessel is scheduled to begin construction in January 2019. The LNG bunkering barge, with 7,500 cubic meters of LNG capacity, will be owned and operated
A naming ceremony for an ice-breaking LNG carrier, jointly owned by Japan’s MOL and China COSCO Shipping, was held on Tuesday at South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. The name of the 172,000-cbm LNG carrier “Vladimir Vize” was chosen in honor of the Russian Arctic explorer and oc
Russia’s Novatek, the operator of the giant Yamal LNG export project, signed an agreement of intent with Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom to establish a joint venture. Under the deal, the duo plans to establish a long-term partnership to jointly develop, finance and implement a project to create a
French LNG containment specialist GTT said Monday it received an order from the Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries to design tanks of four new liquefied natural gas carriers. These LNG tankers are being built for Capital Gas Carrier Corp., owned by Greek shipowner Evangelos Marinakis. To remin
Russia’s largest shipping company Sovcomflot has ordered two liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fuelled aframax tankers at the new Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex. VEB-Leasing will finance the construction of the tankers, whilst a subsequent 20-year time-charter for them has been agreed with Russia’s Rosneft,
REN-operated Sines LNG import terminal in Portugal is scheduled to receive a cargo of the chilled fuel from Nigeria this week, according to the shipping data by the Port of Sines. The cargo will be delivered from Nigeria LNG’s Bonny Island liquefaction plant onboard the 137,300-cbm LNG Sokoto. LNG S
Royal IHC has secured a contract from Belgium-based DEME for the design and build of four new vessels. The order consists of a copy of the recently delivered 8,400m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scheldt River, a 2,300m³ TSHD, and two 3,500m³ split barges. “The Scheldt River was delivered i
The keel laying ceremony for the new mega cutter suction dredger (CSD) Co. 1277 took place today at the Royal IHC shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. The dredger, to be built for Boskalis Westminster NV, will be a sister vessel of the CSD Helios. The new giant will have a total installed power
Finland’s ESL Shipping, an Aspo Group company, has taken delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled bulker Viikki from the Jinling shipyard in Nanjing, China. Viikki is a sister ship to bulker Haaga that was delivered on August 20. The 160-meter, LNG-fueled vessel of 25,600 dwt emits over 50 per
Classification society DNV GL granted approval in principle to Jiangnan Shipyard’s new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier design. The design was developed by the Chinese shipyard in cooperation with ship designer MARIC, GTT, DNV GL and major equipment manufacturers, according to a DNV GL statement.
Norway’s FSRU giant Höegh LNG has entered into a time charter contract with Spanish LNG player Naturgy for its ninth floating storage and regasification unit. The time charter starts in December 2018, immediately after the delivery of the unit and a positioning voyage from South Korean shipbuilder H
Royston Diesel Power’s advanced enginei EFMS (electronic fuel management system) has been specified as part of the new build program for the first dredging vessel commissioned in 20 years by CEMEX UK Marine. The new £30 million Damen Shipyards Group built CEMEX Go Innovation has been designed to ext
