South Korean shipping major HMM plans to conduct field tests of an onboard carbon capture system (OCCS) for containerships along with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and PANASIA in the second half of this year. OCCS is an advanced technology to capture CO2 from greenhouse gas emissions generated duri
DNV has launched Emissions Connect, an emissions data verification engine and data management platform, designed to help the maritime industry accurately assess and work with emissions data. “Reducing emissions and reporting on progress is becoming increasingly important for the maritime industry an
Japanese shipping heavyweight Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) Group plans to install Orca AI platform across its fleet, which includes bulk carriers, tankers and containerships. The move is being announced on the back of a two-year cooperation between NYK and Orca AI, developer of a unique autom
Japanese shipping firm Asahi Tanker Co. has taken delivery of the world’s second pure battery tanker, named the Akari. The vessel completed its historic first bunkering operation in Kawasaki on April 14, supplying the MOL-operated iron ore career UNTA. The vessel was built by Imura Shipbuilding and
The Grimaldi Group took delivery of their multipurpose vessel the Great Antwerp on Tuesday at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The delivery of the new ship was celebrated with a ceremony. This is the first of the six multipurpose ro-ro units commissioned from the Korean company just
Shandong Shipping, the third largest shipowner in China, has made a major investment in newbuild vessels by ordering twelve 82,000 dwt Kamsarmaxes at Jiangsu New Hantong Ship Heavy Industry. The deal marks the largest newbuild order ever made by Shandong Shipping. The company said that it has signed
The global fleet of the world’s largest containerships has expanded once again, with the addition of another 24K TEU vessel, MSC Loreto. The vessel was built by Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group for China’s Bank of Communications Financial Leasing (Bocomm Leas
Dutch shipowner Spliethoff Group hosted a naming ceremony last Saturday in Amsterdam for its newbuild DP2 multipurpose vessel the Brouwersgracht. The christening ceremony was carried out by Mrs N.E. Spliethoff, granddaughter of Johan Fredrik Spliethoff, the founder of the company. The vessel was del
Danish shipping company Norden has teamed up with carbon insetting platform 123Carbon and its partners AllChiefs and Verifavia to issue carbon inset tokens to support the decarbonisation of customer supply chains. The move will enable Norden to tokenise CO2-equivalent reductions made on biofuel voya
The G7 Ministers on Climate, Energy, and Environment have called for the shipping industry to achieve GHG-zero emissions by 2050. The goal is much more ambitious that the current one set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) under which the shipping industry aims to reduce its emissions b
German cruise line AIDA Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation, kick-started this cruise season with a double call in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, while two of its cruise ships, AIDAsol and AIDAmar, simultaneously connected to a shore power facility. This is a first-of-its-kind achievement in Germany
Container shipping heavyweight Maersk has achieved a major milestone in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions with the successful launching of its first methanol-powered feeder vessel at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. “The launching was successfully completed at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and the constructi
Onboard carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (OCCUS) has emerged as one of the promising short-term measures shipping can implement for existing vessels to cut carbon emissions. According to a new report by Lloyd’s Register, OCCUS has a high technology readiness level, however, its investment re
Tallink Grupp’s shuttle vessel Megastar has started using shore power at the Port of Helsinki.
