The first of eight robotic vessels that will form part of Ocean Infinity’s high-tech Armada fleet has arrived in Norway for equipment installation. The vessel, built by Vard Vung Tau in Vietnam, arrived at Vard Søviknes for remote system outfitting and payload equipment installation. According to Oc
Norway’s H2Carrier and the Greenland-based company Anori have signed a Letter of Intent with the purpose of developing the first commercial offshore wind farm in Greenland as part of a project to produce and export green ammonia. The wind farm is projected to have a capacity of 1.5 GW and supply pow
DNV and the Responsible Shipping Initiative (RSI), an alliance of Swedish dry bulk charterers, have launched a feasibility study to develop a commercial framework for orders of green-fuelled newbuilds to decarbonize the sea transport supply chain in the Baltic and North Sea areas and beyond. With th
Japanese shipping major NYK Line and its partners Nihon Shipyard (NSY) and IHI Corporation (IHI) have received Approval in Principle (AiP) from the classification society ClassNK for an ammonia floating storage and regasification barge (A-FSRB). The companies and ClassNK, which was in charge of the
Norwegian fertilizer company Yara International has revealed plans to modify its ammonia terminals in Germany, enabling them to handle up to 3 million tons of ammonia. According to Yara, this equates to roughly 530,000 tons of hydrogen and will help speed up the hydrogen economy in Germany. The comp
Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) plans to launch the construction of Wind Hunter, a hydrogen-producing vessel outfitted with multiple rigid sails, in 2024. The construction forms part of the company’s Wind Hunter project, which seeks new applications for hydrogen fuel and wind power
Norwegian vessel operator Knutsen Group has taken delivery of small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel Haugesund Knutsen built in Spain.
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has completed the conceptual design for a CMSR Power barge, a floating facility for offshore nuclear power plants, and secured approval in principle from the U.S.-bassed ABS classification society. A compact molten salt reactor (CMSR) power bar
French shipowner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, through its Louis Dreyfus Ports and Logistics (LDPL), has developed an innovative vessel design capable of storing and supplying hydrogen using green ammonia.
Chinese shipbuilder Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has started off the year with the delivery of a 190,000-ton dual-fuel LNG bulk carrier named Ubuntu Equality. The giant vessel was built for Taiwanese bulk carrier company U-Ming Marine and it is a sister ship to Ubuntu Harmony, delivered at the e
Germany-based ferry owner and operator TT-Line and small-scale LNG provider Avenir LNG Limited have conducted the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship-to-ship (STS) bunkering operation for newbuild RoPax ferry Peter Pan.
Dutch tank storage company Vopak has teamed up with Germany-based Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies to establish a joint venture specializing in hydrogen storage, transport, and supply. At the heart of the 50-50 joint venture named LOHC Logistix will be Hydrogenious’ Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LO
China Merchants Industry Holding (CMI), a manufacturing flagship of China Merchants Group, has won a contract for the construction of up to eight 180,000 cbm LNG carriers from an undisclosed European shipowner. The company behind the contract, which includes four firm orders plus four options, is be
Baker Hughes has secured a contract to supply carbon dioxide (CO2) compression equipment to Petronas Carigali’s offshore carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project in Sarawak, Malaysia, said to be one of the world’s largest projects of its type. Under the contract signed with Malaysia Marine and
