A tragic accident recently claimed the life of one worker and put nine more directly in the path of danger due to gas exposure at a shipyard, where a 1975-built semi-submersible drilling rig was being taken apart for recycling purposes.
South Korea’s shipbuilder HD Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) has secured an approval in principle (AiP) from the UK-based classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) for a 20,000 cbm liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO₂) carrier, signalling a ‘step forward’ in bolstering carbon capture and storage (CCS) tech
Chinese shipbuilder Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering (CIMC SOE) has held a delivery and naming ceremony for the third dual-fuel liquefied ethylene gas (LEG) carrier built for German shipping company Hartmann Group.
Energy equipment and marine solutions company Hawnha Power Systems, a part of South Korean Hanwha Group, and Greek LNG shipping services provider GasLog have agreed to work on replacing the existing fossil fuel-powered vessels with ammonia gas turbines under the new memorandum of understanding (MoU)
COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers, a unit of China’s COSCO Shipping Group, has held a naming ceremony for its newest liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel pure car and truck carrier (PCTC).
Türkiye has welcomed the arrival of its first-ever floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is the same size as three standard football fields put together and will double the gas production from the country’s giant field in the Black Sea, once the unit kicks off its 20-year
AGR has disclosed a list of improvement features that will be added to a ship originally built as a platform supply vessel (PSV), which is said to have emerged as a solution to a major energy industry bottleneck – the scarcity of special-purpose ships, with refurbishment work allowing it to sign up
Ocean Installer, part of the Moreld Group, has moved to the final stage of its subsea scope for a giant new floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is slated to start its three-decade job next quarter at a large oil project in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway.
Wärtsilä and Chevron are teaming up on converting one engine on six of Chevron Transport Corporation’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers in a bid to reduce their methane emissions.
CB&I and Hanwha Ocean have received approval in principle (AiP) for the design of a cargo containment system and an 80,000 cbm liquid hydrogen (LH2) carrier from DNV.
Golar LNG is pooling resources with China’s CIMC Raffles and Black & Veatch to bring to life an MK II floating LNG (FLNG) vessel with an annual liquefaction capacity of 3.5 million tons of LNG per annum (mtpa).
The September 7 explosion on the oil tanker MT Suvarna Swarajya in Bangladesh—which claimed the lives of six people with four still in critical condition—has brought to light the lack of adequate international and national regulations, oversight and labor rights protections in the shipbreaking indus
Bureau Veritas (BV) has granted approval in principle (AiP) to PONANT for its new twin-screw sailing passenger vessel concept Swap2Zero.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced grants totalling nearly $300 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand and modernize the nation’s ferry systems.
