Turkish Uzmar Shipyard has held a steel-cutting ceremony for Turkey’s first dual-fuel tugboat, being built for BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS), the state-owned crude oil and natural gas pipelines and trading company. The shipyard will build two Voith tractor-type propeller tugboats that
Singapore shipowner Consort Bunkers has signed a contract with China Merchants Industry Nanjing Jinling Shipyard for six 6,500-ton methanol fuel bunkering ships. The 6,500-ton methanol fueling ships have a total length of 103.88 meters, a molded width of 19.00 meters, and a design draft of 7.00 mete
China’s Wuhu Shipyard has inked a contract for the construction of eight 18,500-ton IMO Class II chemical tankers during the first quarter of this year. The shipbuilder did not disclose the names of the owners behind the orders, only revealing that the companies in question were ‘prominent domestic
China’s shipbuilding major Jiangnan Shipyard, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, has delivered 24,100 TEU MSC Raya to its owner Bank of Communications Financial Leasing (Bocom), which ordered the ship on behalf of the world’s largest container shipping company MSC. The vessel is
Alternative fuel ships have accounted for around 60% of new orders since the start of 2022 in GT, primarily driven by LNG dual-fuel vessel orders, and increasingly methanol, and now account for 5% of fleet GT and 47% of orderbook, data from Clarksons shows. Looking at the fleet profile, the shipbrok
Japanese shipbuilder Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has delivered the 84,000 cbm dual-fuel liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier, Captain Markos, to US-headquartered LPG shipping company Dorian LPG. The vessel, delivered on 31 March, is Dorian’s first dual-fuel very large gas carrier (VLGC) and wil
German shipyard Meyer Werft has laid keel for Disney Treasure, the second LNG-powered cruise ship it is building for US-based Disney Cruise Line. According to Meyer Werft, the keel laying ceremony took place on 31 March to celebrate the start of hull assembly for the new cruise ship by placing the f
MF Hydra, the world’s first liquid hydrogen-powered ferry operated by Norwegian company Norled, is breaking ground as it starts sailing on zero-emission hydrogen with a blessing from the Norwegian Maritime Authority. The ferry is put into operation today, 31 March, running on zero-emission hydrogen
Finnish cleantech company Norsepower Oy has signed a contract with global shipping company IINO Lines for the delivery and installation of two Norsepower Rotor Sails™ on a newbuild Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC). The LPG dual-fuel vessel was delivered today from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineeri
China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) has signed a deal with China Merchants Industry for the construction of two methanol-powered dual-fuel Roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ships. The company said that the contract for the two firm 9,300 CEU RoRo vessels includes options for additional four ships of the sa
Finnish technology company Wärtsilä has introduced a new radical derating retrofit solution, Wärtsilä Fit4Power, to extend the emissions-compliant lifetime of merchant vessels.
Singapore’s first LNG hybrid tug, JMS Sunshine, has received LNG via truck-to-ship bunkering operation conducted by Pavilion Energy. For this operation, a total of 34 cubic metres of LNG was transferred from the trucks to the receiving vessel at Jurong Port on 29 March, Pavilion Energy revealed in i
Oceanbird, a project aimed at developing a wind-powered cargo ship, is moving forward with the assembly of a land-based prototype of Oceanbird Wing 560, its first full-scale wing sail. The Alfa Laval and Wallenius-backed JV company said that the prototype will be assembled at the Oresund DryDocks sh
Dutch marine biofuel provider GoodFuels has completed the biofuel bunkering of a pure car truck carrier owned by Hyundai Glovis, the logistics arm of South Korea’s Hyundai Group.
