Swedish shipping company Erik Thun has introduced new dry cargo vessels, a next-generation series of Lake Vanern Max, built at Shipyard Ferus Smit in the Netherlands.
DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, has released its new service specification which delineates its procedures for verifying claims made by companies about the production and distribution of low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia. As explained, the new service, DNV-SE-0654, will enab
China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has completed gas trials of the third LNG carrier built for CSSC Shipping, the financial leasing entity of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Hudong-Zhonghua said the vessel completed the gas trial in only five days and returned to the yard on 11 August
South Korea’s shipbuilding major HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediate holding company for shipbuilding under HD Hyundai, has constructed and delivered the world’s first ship equipped with an ‘AI engineer’. The company has delivered and installed an AI-based engine a
When it comes to tweaking existing industrial processes to curb carbon emissions, numerous steps are being taken.
Woodside has reached an in-principle agreement with the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), the Electrical Trades Union, and other bargaining representatives on an enterprise agreement (EA) covering 150 employees on its North West Shelf offshore platforms, in a bid to avert industrial action.
State-owned oil and gas company QatarEnergy has awarded Spanish engineering firm Técnicas Reunidas additional engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work on its North Field South project. The award, which is the fourth from Qatar Energy to Técnicas Reunidas in the last two years, has a valu
Fujian’s first pure battery-powered cruise ship has been launched at Fujian Funing Shipbuilding Co., the battery-powered ship assembly base of Fujian Shipbuilding Industry Group Company.
Japanese shipping majors NYK and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) have been commissioned to study liquefied CO2 transport by vessels as part of a carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) project in Japan.
Low and zero-emission fuels supplier Titan has performed its first ship-to-ship LNG bunker operations in Hamburg, Germany. The company said it performed its first-ever ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in Hamburg on 31 July to Vox Ariane, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The sec
Blue ammonia, an attractive fuel for the maritime industry, is expected to become available in significant quantities by 2027, with the potential for significant scale-up in production over subsequent years, according to a recent report by Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. The
China Classification Society (CCS) has issued an approval in principle (AiP) for a marine liquid hydrogen fuel supply system which is developed by Weishi Energy Technology Hebei Co.
UAE’s integrated gas processing company ADNOC Gas has signed a five-year LNG supply agreement with energy company Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX). ADNOC said the agreement, valued between $450 million (AED 1.65 billion) and $550 million (AED 2 billion), builds on the long-standing bilateral rela
Towage operator Svitzer, part of A.P. Moller – Maersk, has launched the second phase of its project to design the world’s first methanol hybrid fuel cell (MHFC) tug. In the first phase, Svitzer conducted technical studies to establish the feasibility of this type of vessel accommodating the real-wor
