
On July 10, 2024, Spanish ferry operator Baleària added ‘the world’s second fast ferry with dual gas engines’, the Margarita Salas, to the Barcelona-Alcúdia-Ciutadella route.

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply a fully integrated, mechanical drive, propulsion package for new 6,000 dwt LNG-fueled tankers being built for British fleet operator James Fisher Everard, part of the James Fisher group of companies.

Following community feedback that caused the previous proposal to be discounted, SSEN Transmission has identified an alternative site on Lewis for the proposed new HVDC convertor station and AC substation for the Western Isles HVDC link. The proposed new site, located on an area of land owned by the

Tsuneishi Shipbuilding has received a new order from ORIX Corporation to construct two methanol dual-fuel Kamsarmax bulk carriers.

Vitol Bunkers has deployed ZeroNorth’s electronic bunker delivery note (eBDN) solution on twelve barges in Singapore.

NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers, a cement shipping joint venture between Italian-Swiss Nova Marine Group and Canada’s Algoma Central Corporation, has placed an order for a methanol dual-fuel cement carrier in China.

French shipping company Compagnie Maritime Nantaise deployed on its roll-on/roll-off containership a next-generation weather routing platform developed by Syroco.

Aker BP has installed the first 5 of the 9 subsea templates built by Marketex Offshore Constructions (MOC) for its “major” North Sea project.

Liquid Wind and Uniper signed a strategic partnership agreement to boost eFuel facilities’ development for fossil-free eMethanol production.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has signed agreements with industry majors BP, Mitsui & Co., Shell and TotalEnergies under which each will take a 10% equity stake in what will be the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to run on

MOL has installed the Wind Challenger hard sail wind power propulsion system on the second bulk carrier at Oshima Shipbuilding.

Australia’s mining and metals company BHP, together with Japan’s copper supplier Pan Pacific Copper (PPC) and Finnish cleantech company Norsepower have completed the retrofit installation of a rotor sail onboard the M/V Koryu.

X-Press Feeders has started Europe’s first scheduled feeder network serviced by green methanol-powered vessels and named its first dual-fuel methanol-powered vessel.

Oriental Land Company (OLC), a Japanese leisure and tourism company, has commissioned German shipbuilder Meyer Werft to build a Disney Wish-class cruise ship for the Japanese market.