COSCO SHIPPING Lines CO., COSCO SHIPPING Ports and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) have teamed up in a joint initiative to advocate for the widespread adoption of shore power technology. The partnership is being forged at a critical juncture as global efforts intensify to achieve “carbon emiss
CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard has held a keel-laying ceremony for AAL Shipping’s (AAL) first Super B-Class dual-fuel-ready heavy lift multipurpose vessel (MPV).
Technology group Wärtsilä has added carbon capture and storage (CCS) feasibility studies to its portfolio of products intended for shipowners and operators. The company has already conducted a number of studies on a range of vessel types including ro-ro and ro-pax vessels, a drill ship, a container
Remota has been contracted by USV to operate and manage remotely controlled offshore operations for its first newbuild USV.
Bermuda-based bulk carrier company Himalaya Shipping has welcomed its sixth of twelve 210,000 dwt Newcastlemax LNG dual-fuel newbuildings from New Times Shipyard in China. The delivery of the vessel named Mount Neblina was announced on 29 August. According to the shipowner, Mount Neblina will now co
SM Korealine Co., a shipping unit of South Korea’s SM Group, revealed on Monday that its subsidiary Korealine LNG has received official authorization from its flag state of Panama for autonomous sailing operations of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering ship, named the SM Jeju LNG 2. The LNG bu
Singapore-based ship management company Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has revealed that its liquified natural gas (LNG)-powered tanker Starway completed the company’s first LNG bunkering operation in USA.
DNV classification society has issued a letter of professional opinion confirming that ERMA FIRST’s alternative maritime power (AMP) system, BLUE CONNECT, meets the requirements for categorisation as an ‘energy-saving device’ (ESD). In the same document, DNV recognises BLUE CONNECT’s ability to impr
The Port of Savannah received four Super Post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes Thursday, Aug. 24, upgrading the crane fleet to 34 machines at Garden City Terminal after four older cranes are retired and recycled. “Along with the completion of our project to improve Berth 1, these cranes will help delive
CNOOC Energy has signed a project framework agreement with Nippon Yusen (NYK) and China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) LNG Project 4 Co. to establish an LNG carrier joint venture with a total investment of €412.6 million (around $446 million). According to a stock exchange filing from 24 August, t
Kirby Inland Marine, a subsidiary of Houston-based Kirby Corporation, christened the Green Diamond, the first US plug-in hybrid electric inland towing vessel at a ceremony held in Houston on Friday, August 25, 2023. Following the ceremony, the vessel will be time chartered by Shell Trading (US) Comp
Swedish shipping company Erik Thun has introduced new dry cargo vessels, a next-generation series of Lake Vanern Max, built at Shipyard Ferus Smit in the Netherlands.
China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has completed gas trials of the third LNG carrier built for CSSC Shipping, the financial leasing entity of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Hudong-Zhonghua said the vessel completed the gas trial in only five days and returned to the yard on 11 August
South Korea’s shipbuilding major HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediate holding company for shipbuilding under HD Hyundai, has constructed and delivered the world’s first ship equipped with an ‘AI engineer’. The company has delivered and installed an AI-based engine a
