The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has proposed a measure to charge a fee of up to $1.5 million for Chinese-built vessels entering US ports in an attempt to curb China’s dominance in shipping, shipbuilding and logistics sectors.
The Spanish Freire Shipyard has delivered a new maintenance support vessel, named Forth Constructor, to the UK-based Briggs Marine. Briggs Marine placed the order for the vessel in December 2022 and Freire Shipyard launched Forth Constructor and moved it to a “wet berth” at its yard in Vigo in July
Swedish shipping company Furetank has completed its first bunkering of ISCC-certified bio-LNG as a step toward complying with the heightened EU environmental requirements.
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has held the launching ceremony for a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production facility it is building for Malaysia’s Petronas.
The European Union (EU)-backed TREASURE project has selected renewable energy company SolarinBlue, Rotary Wave start-up, as well as wave energy developer Eco Wave Power among the 52 companies to address environmental challenges in Euro-MED ports. The TREASURE initiative (Testing novel environmental
Venture capital company NetZero Tech Ventures will invest in CatAmmon, a company developing an advanced ammonia cracking catalyst that could reduce costs while cutting the carbon emissions in the hydrogen supply chain.
Chinese shipbuilder Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS), part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), has handed over the third vessel in a series of 114,000 dwt Aframax product tankers constructed for Greek shipping player Thenamaris. As disclosed, the newbuilding, christened Isabella, w
An advanced, 24-meter-long unmanned surface vessel (USV) being built in Spain for a joint venture of DeepOcean, Solstad Offshore and Østensjø Rederi has been floated out. GONDAN Shipbuilders started the construction of the USV Challenger in March 2024, following the order from USV A/S, a joint ventu
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has achieved a record oil production per day at its field located in the pre-salt Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
Spanish maritime survey and ROV services operator ACSM is in the process of upgrading its 25-year-old offshore support vessel (OSV) Nautilus to enhance its operations in the subsea sector. The 73-meter-long vessel has completed its upgrading phase at the shipyard Viana do Castelo in Spain, and is n
An ammonia-fueled ammonia bunkering vessel design developed for local use in Singapore has received approval in principle (AiP) from classification society ClassNK.
Singapore-based container shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) is about to adopt the Digital Container Shipping Association’s (DCSA) electronic bill of lading (eBL) standard, Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) said.
U.S.-based energy giant Chevron has introduced senior leadership changes to simplify its organizational structure.
Dutch company Next Ocean is looking at a global reach for its technology that predicts waves and vessel motions minutes beforehand. Following a period of demonstration deployments of WavePredictor and the first vessels using it commercially, Next Ocean says it is witnessing the technology becoming s
