A cargo vessel featuring a wind assisted propulsion system (WAPS) will dock at the Port of Hamburg on September 3-4, 2024, showcasing its 17-meter-high suction sails from Spanish company bound4blue.
Classification society DNV has issued approval in principle (AiP) to China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Offshore Co. (DSOC) and its industry partners for liquid CO2 (LCO2) carrier vessel concepts. The certificate was issued during the international energy event ONS in Stavanger, Norway, for DSOC’s 12,000 c
UK-based maritime clean technology player Silverstream Technologies has revealed that it secured a new order for its air lubrication system to be fitted on 18 new 271,000 cubic meter QC-Max class LNG carriers. As informed, these will be the ‘first’ LNG carriers of this caliber to be wholly designed,
Island Offshore has taken steps to enlarge its fleet by placing a new order with VARD, covering the design and construction of another hybrid power ocean energy construction vessel (OECV) three months after ordering the first one.
Following the delivery of the Icon of the Seas cruise ship last year, Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku has signed a brand-new agreement with the US-based cruise company Royal Caribbean International to build the fourth Icon class vessel. As informed, the newbuilding will be delivered in 2027. The agr
Uber Boat by Thames Clippers, a partnership between river bus service Thames Clipper and transport company Uber, has welcomed the latest addition to its fleet: the Mars Clipper, a hybrid passenger ferry. Constructed at Wight Shipyard on the Isle of Wight, the ferry has joined its predecessors, namel
Shearwater GeoServices has signed up for further carbon footprint cuts thanks to an upgrade of main engines at one of its seismographic research ships, which is envisioned to result in more sustainable and efficient operations.
Classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has assigned its first class notation for carbon capture onboard a ship to Eastern Pacific Shipping-owned tanker Pacific Cobalt.
Dutch systems integrator Alewijnse is taking part in Fugro’s project to convert the research vessel Fugro Pioneer to a methanol operation.
Norway’s Østensjø Rederi has entrusted the construction of its new ocean energy support vessel (OESV) to Astilleros Gondon, a Spanish shipyard.
In partnership with Norwegian telecommunications provider Telenor Maritime, compatriot technology company Kongsberg Maritime is to conduct a ‘significant’ trial of Eutelsat OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet service on an autonomous battery-powered barge across the Oslo Fjord, Norway.
Navigator Holdings (Navigator Gas), a UK-based owner and operator of the ‘world’s largest fleet of Handysize liquefied gas carriers’, has ordered two 48,500 cbm liquefied ethylene gas carriers (LEGCs) in China.
A cable-laying vessel (CLV), which Norway’s ship designer and shipbuilder VARD is constructing for Denmark’s subsea specialist NCT Offshore, has come to Norwegian waters.
Dutch offshore services giant Boskalis has expanded its fleet with the addition of a DP2 vessel for offshore geophysical and geotechnical surveys, which the company describes as relatively new and enormously multifunctional. The Horizon Zenith vessel is deployed by Boskalis’ UAE-headquartered subsid
