Swedish shipping company Stena RoRo has taken delivery of a new E-Flexer roll-on/roll-off passenger (RoPax) vessel, which will be powered multi-fuel engine and a battery package, from the Chinese shipyard CMI Jinling (Weihai).
German shipbuilder Meyer Werft has delivered the second LNG-powered cruise ship, Disney Treasure, to U.S.-based Disney Cruise Line. Disney Treasure was delivered on October 24, 2024, earlier than contractually agreed, according to Meyer Werft. The ship featuring 1,240 cabins, a size of 144,000 GT, a
Japanese companies Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsubishi Corporation have entered into an agreement to jointly study the efficient operation of clean ammonia carriers and transshipment terminals as well as the structuring of a low-carbon ammonia supply chain. In addition to the efficient operation of clean
Chinese shipbuilder Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore ＆ Engineering (CIMC SOE) has laid the keel for a 1,450 TEU dual-fuel containership. The ceremony was held on the company’s West Area Shipway on October 18, 2024, after which full-scale construction work on the new vessel is to proceed. Offshore E
Public ferry service provider San Francisco Bay Ferry (SF Bay Ferry) has received a $12.5 million grant to set up electric vessel charging infrastructure at the Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal in Alameda as part of the Rapid Electric Emission-Free Ferry (REEF) Program. SF Bay Ferry’s REEF Program includes
Norwegian marine geoscience and technology company Shearwater GeoServices has secured its second contract with French energy giant TotalEnergies for a project offshore Angola. The project will include a three-month deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) survey covering the Golfinho and Cameia fields, loc
Construction has commenced on Norled’s new battery-powered ferries at Türkiye’s Tersan Shipyard, part of Tersan Group.
Türkiye’s Uzmar Shipyard has handed over its eco-friendly tugboat to Spain’s maritime company P&O Reyser, which operates under the UAE-based DP World’s subsidiary P&O Maritime Logistics, allowing the company to take a step closer toward ‘safe and sustainable’ operations in one of Spain’s busiest por
In a little more than five years, renewable energy targets set for 2030 will come knocking on the door. Whether they will be reached, missed or overshot, depends on multiple factors, most of which concern policymakers and the energy sector itself. At the end of 2023, the EU increased the binding ren
Höegh Autoliners’ first of twelve multi-fuel Aurora-class pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) has made its first port call in Hamburg.
Hong Kong-based containership lessor Seaspan Corporation has signed a charter agreement Orient Overseas Container Lines (OOCL) for six 13,600 TEU containerships recently ordered at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) Calypso has begun installing cables at its first offshore wind project, marking its official debut. Calypso’s first project is RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, being constructed on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometers from the
The Netherlands’ Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the first of three combi freighters (CF) 3850 that it is building for Germany’s shipping company Reederei M. Lauterjung and signed a contract for the construction of another vessel from the series. As disclosed, upon arrival, the vessel, which was
French technological containment specialist Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) has secured a new tank design order from Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua for a new LNG bunkering vessel being built for Ondimar Transportes Marítimos, a company of Spanish Ibaizabal Group. The order for the tank design of th
