Northern Phoenix, the third liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier for the Northern Lights CO2 project in Norway, has officially been blessed and will now start final preparations and commissioning ahead of operations. China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC), part of China State Shipbuilding Co
Boskalis’ new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel, described by the company as the largest in the industry, has arrived in the Netherlands for final outfitting and commissioning ahead of its first assignment later this year. Windpiper, whose purchase Boskalis announced in January 2025, was develop
The hull of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has been launched into the water at Vard’s shipyard in Tulcea, Romania. The official keel laying for the vessel took place in January 2025, some two months after the first steel was cut. NKT Eleonora will be able to run on both methanol an
The U.S. President Donald J. Trump has made a deal with Iran to suspend further attacks for two weeks on the Middle Eastern country in exchange for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which handles 15% of global oil and 20% of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply flows.
Florida-headquartered Sawgrass LNG & Power, a provider of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and turnkey gas-to-power solutions across the Southeastern United States and Caribbean, has wrapped up LNG shore-to-ship bunkering operation at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Jan De Nul has launched William Thomson, the second of two identical subsea cable‑laying vessels (CLVs) currently under construction. Both vessels have a cargo capacity of 28,000 tons and a length of 215 meters. This makes them the largest of their kind, Jan De Nul said. Jan De Nul’s two new CLVs ha
Ship classification, inspection, certification and consulting engineering group RINA and South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote the adoption of battery-hybrid propulsion systems in the maritime sector. According to RINA, the collaboration ai
The Swedish Coast Guard has decided to launch a probe into a ship suspected of causing an oil spill in the Baltic Sea, east of Gotland, ordering the vessel to anchor in Swedish territorial waters.
Singapore-based tanker owner Hafnia has placed an order for the construction of eight fuel-efficient product tankers with the South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries. The total purchase price for the medium-range (MR) newbuild product tankers is approximately $405 million, with deliveries
A floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit has reached its final destination in Europe, where it will be recycled at Modern American Recycling Services (MARS) in Denmark.
ABL’s Egyptian operation, part of Oslo-listed global consultancy ABL Group, has sealed a new deal with Tidewater Marine Egypt, a subsidiary of Tidewater, to provide certain services to the fleet owner and operator’s offshore support vessels (OSVs) working in the Egyptian part of the Mediterranean Se
Dutch advanced unmanned robotics services provider DroneQ Robotics has received exclusive rights to deploy Mark Offshore’s research and survey vessel for its own and third-party projects. This comes as Dutch Mark Offshore signed an agreement with Lithuania’s Klaipėda University to handle the managem
Qatar’s state-owned oil and gas giant QatarEnergy has confirmed a missile attack on a fuel oil tanker off the Persian Gulf state’s coast.
Norway’s Solstad Maritime has won a contract extension for its 2007-built construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Energy with an undisclosed client. The extension period of eight months begins as of today, April 1, and ends on November 30, in direct continuation of the current contract, with furth
