On December 29, a 24,000 TEU containership ordered by Taiwan’s Evergreen Group was launched at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding’s Changxing Shipbuilding Base.
A case involving a Swiss tanker previously detained by Nigeria has been removed from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea’s (ITLOS) list of cases.
A keel-laying ceremony has been held in South Korea to mark the beginning of the formal construction of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s (IoMSPC) new flagship ferry, Manxman.
CIT Group’s Maritime Finance business provided $35.5 million to finance four commercial shipping vessels operated by Greenyield Shipping, the American bank holding company said.
North Korea has launched Jang Su San, a 12,000 dwt cargo vessel which is the first known merchant vessel launched by the country in five years.
Talos’s CEO portrays the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast as a ‘critical part of the global energy story’ due to multiple hydrocarbon resources.
On December 15, the world’s first smart green energy system for a zero-carbon terminal was successfully connected to the grid at the Second Container Terminal of Tianjin Port, COSCO SHIPPING Tianjin said.
Bermuda-based Höegh LNG Holdings has completed and signed all documentation for a 10-year FSRU charter with Terminal de Regaseificação de GNL de São Paulo S.A. (TSRP).
South Korean classification society Korean Register (KR) awarded approval in principle (AIP) to two green ammonia-fueled ships at KR’s Seoul branch office on 15 December.
Japanese shipping company Asahi Tanker has launched and named the first of its two next-generation all-electric tankers ordered in 2020.
A court in Mauritius has handed a 20-month prison sentence to the captain and first officer of Wakashio, a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off the Mauritian coast in 2020, causing a massive oil spill.
Russian shipyard Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex held a steel-cutting ceremony for the third ARC 7 icebreaking LNG carrier for the Arctic LNG 2 project.
During the second quarter of 2022, service ship Northern Skagerrak will be converted to a hybrid operation. It will collect oily engine room waste, known as sludge, from ships arriving at the Swedish Port of Gothenburg.
The year is not over yet for South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) as it received an order for the construction of a liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier.
