
Taiwanese shipping company Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. has approved the construction of five 15,000 TEU containerships that will be equipped with dual-fuel LNG marine engines.

German ferry operator AG Ems has started operating the LNG-fueled retrofit ferry Münsterland on the route between Netherlands and Germany.

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has signed an optimised maintenance agreement for two LNG carriers operated by the Japanese shipping group MMS.

The industry has been evidently hitting the pause button ahead of Easter. However, it seems like one part of the world still keeps going without slowing down. The Americas took the spotlight this week in offshore energy news headlines, with Canada and the U.S. steering the wheel.

Germany’s government has allocated about €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) for four floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals around the country.

The Canadian Woodfibre LNG project has issued a notice to proceed to its construction contractor U.S. offshore engineering firm McDermott.

Green hydrogen and green hydrogen-derived ammonia are the only scalable fuels that can achieve the emission reduction targets set forth in the Paris Agreement, a new report has found.

The Galway Hydrogen Hub (GH2) consortium has proposed to develop Ireland’s first hydrogen valley, a regional ecosystem that links H2 research, production, and distribution with end-users.

South Korean shipbuilder HJ Shipbuilding & Construction (HJSC, formerly Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction) has developed a dual-fuel liquefied natural gas- (LNG) powered containership.

Samsung Heavy Industries has ordered tank design for four new LNG-fueled containerships from the French LNG containment specialist GTT.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its weekly report informs that LNG exports from the U.S. decreased by four vessels this week from last week.

German shipbuilder Meyer Group and its counterpart Fassmer have decided to jointly acquire compatriot ship design company Neptun Ship Design.

Global engineering company Wood will provide services for Total Eren’s H2 Magallanes project, a large-scale green hydrogen production facility in Southern Chile.

ANL, a subsidiary of French container and logistics shipping giant CMA CGM Group, has completed the first biofuel trial on a containerised shipping vessel within Oceania.