The shipping industry is slowly approaching limits in ship size development, DNV GL Business Director Jost Bergmann said while speaking at DNV GL’s latest Container Ship Forum and Bulk Carrier Forum in Hamburg. The forums looked at a broad spectrum of topics including environmental regulations, tren
The United Kingdom’s Transport Minister John Hayes has launched a wide-ranging study that will look at how to boost the UK’s multi-billion pound maritime industry. The work will look at all aspects of the sector to identify where and how improvements can be made to generate growth. The study will re
The Panamax and 2,500TEU sectors continued to be the two areas that sparked the most interest and the highest volume of ships changing hands in the second-hand market last week. According to Braemar ACM Shipbroking, the ships that are being sold at the moment have been on the market for some time, a
Rem Eir, build no 356 from Kleven Verft, was delivered to Remøy Shipping on November 26, 2014, the Norwegian shipbuilder announced. With a length of 92.5 metres and a deck capacity of 1080 m2, Rem Eir is the world’s largest environmentally friendly LNG powered PSV. The vessel enters a long term char
The BC Ferries Commissioner has approved BC Ferries’ application to convert its two largest vessels, the Spirit of Vancouver Island and the Spirit of British Columbia, to dual fuel, as well as to proceed with the mid-life upgrades of the vessels. By using LNG instead of marine diesel fuel, as well a
Shipyards in the Netherlands may no longer be able to rely on the right to retain a vessel while awaiting payment for work done as a result of a recent decision of the Dutch courts, Rotterdam-based law firm AKD says. According to the law firm, as a result of this unexpected decision, shipyards could
Two new liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered sea vessels, operated by shipowner Anthony Veder, were named on Teesside on November 13. The new ships will carry Liquefied Ethylene Gas (LEG) from SABIC’s Wilton facility on Teesside to manufacturing plants in North-West Europe and Scandinavia. The new sh
Interferry, a global ferry industry association, has welcomed a decision at last week’s IMO Maritime Safety Committee meeting (MSC94) setting out rules for the location of fuel tanks on LNG-powered ships – a decision that the trade association says will safeguard further development of the LNG optio
The EU’s TEN-T Programme will co-finance with over €1.5 million the construction of the first in Europe hopper barge powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The LNG fuel could help reduce air pollution caused by barge transport services. Hopper barges carrying sand dredged from ports are most often
The image was shared by Norway’s Atlantic Offshore, showing their Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) Ocean Scout being undocked at from GMC this summer. Built by Simek, the Ocean Scout was delivered to Atlantic Offshore in May 2013. World Maritime News Staff; Image: Atlantic Offshore
Cargo Ship Sinks off Ecuador A 1,200 dwt general cargo vessel San Cristobal sank around 25 nautical miles off Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador, in the morning hours of November 16, the Ecuadorian Navy reports.…Read more World’s First FLNG Undocked in Nantong Caribbean FLNG facility has been undocked f
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code), and related amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) to make it mandatory. The Polar Code and SOLAS amendments were adopted durin
The talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) are too important for dirty tricks and childish one-upmanship, Paddy Crumlin, President of International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said reacting to PMA’s press attacks against IL
Unionised workers at South Korea’s shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries staged their first industrial action in almost two decades this Thursday when they walked out from a scheduled one hour of extra work after their regular eight-hour shift, the AFP reports. The union announced the walkout,
