Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply a fully integrated, mechanical drive, propulsion package for new 6,000 dwt LNG-fueled tankers being built for British fleet operator James Fisher Everard, part of the James Fisher group of companies.
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding has received a new order from ORIX Corporation to construct two methanol dual-fuel Kamsarmax bulk carriers.
China’s CIMC Raffles, a subsidiary of CIMC Group, has secured engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts with Singapore-headquartered Seatrium to deliver the hulls for two floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels destined for Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras.
NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers, a cement shipping joint venture between Italian-Swiss Nova Marine Group and Canada’s Algoma Central Corporation, has placed an order for a methanol dual-fuel cement carrier in China.
COSCO Shipping’s 7,500 CEU LNG dual-fuel car carrier Liao He Kou has started its maiden voyage to Europe.
French shipping company Compagnie Maritime Nantaise deployed on its roll-on/roll-off containership a next-generation weather routing platform developed by Syroco.
AIDA Cruises has recorded the highest monthly value for shore power usage by ensuring the supply of its ships with green energy from shore during 45 calls at European ports in June 2024.
MOL has installed the Wind Challenger hard sail wind power propulsion system on the second bulk carrier at Oshima Shipbuilding.
Australia’s mining and metals company BHP, together with Japan’s copper supplier Pan Pacific Copper (PPC) and Finnish cleantech company Norsepower have completed the retrofit installation of a rotor sail onboard the M/V Koryu.
X-Press Feeders has started Europe’s first scheduled feeder network serviced by green methanol-powered vessels and named its first dual-fuel methanol-powered vessel.
Oriental Land Company (OLC), a Japanese leisure and tourism company, has commissioned German shipbuilder Meyer Werft to build a Disney Wish-class cruise ship for the Japanese market.
ONE-Dyas has hired Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) to place its new gas platform at its designated spot in the North Sea.
Value Maritime (VM) has been contracted by ForestWave to retrofit two 10,600 dwt general cargo vessels with VM’s emission-reducing Filtree exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) and integrated carbon capture unit.
An FPSO unit operated by Japan’s MODEC on behalf of Petrobras has celebrated its sixth year of operation in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.
