South Korean shipbuilding major Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) has won an order for the construction of twelve very large container ships from an unnamed European shipping company. The vessels will be built by KSOE’s subsidiary Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and the contract is wor
Groningen-based shipping company ForestWave has completed the acquisition of Symphony Shipping and its fleet of eight Ecobox vessels. The transaction pushes its owned fleet to 24 units with a total of 248.197 dwat, including three newbuilding vessels that will be delivered in the next two years. One
Dutch Wagenborg Offshore has signed a long-term agreement with an “energy major” for a platform supply vessel (PSV) that will be converted into a multipurpose offshore vessel set to support subsea activities and decommissioning works. A young PX121 PSV will be converted into a multipurpose offshore
Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding has delivered Maersk Biscayne to Japanese Lepta Shipping, a joint venture between Nissen Kaiun and Mitsui & Co. The 3,500 TEU newbuilding containership is intended for a charter for Danish container shipping major Maersk. The vessel is believed to
Taiwanese bulk carrier company U-Ming Marine has taken delivery of its third 190,000-ton dual-fuel LNG bulk carrier from Chinese shipbuilder Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding. According to a statement from the shipbuilder, the vessel named Ubuntu Integrity was delivered on 31 January. The length of t
DEME group has announced that the DP3 offshore installation vessel Viking Neptun arrived at its base in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, for the first time. Viking Neptun will join the installation vessel Living Stone and reinforce the company’s cable installation capacity, DEME said. Featuring the famo
Singapore-based tanker owner and operator Hafnia has kicked off the year with the delivery of the first of four new dual-fuel LR2 product tankers. Guangzhou Shipbuilding International (GSI), a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, delivered the LNG-powered Hafnia Languedoc at a naming
French LNG containment specialist GTT has received a new order from its partner the Korean shipyard Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI) for the tank design of two new LNG carriers (LNGCs). The order was received at the beginning of 2023 on behalf of a European shipowner. GTT will design the tanks
Environmental activists have boarded Boskalis vessel, which is transporting a circular FPSO destined for Shell’s oil & gas project off the UK.
Singapore-based shipowner Kumiai Navigation has doubled its order for dual-fuel VLGC newbuildings at Kawasaki Heavy Industries to two ships. Each vessel has a capacity of 86,700 cbm for LPG/liquefied ammonia gas. The first vessel from the series was ordered last year, and now the company has two VLG
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has secured a new order for the construction of two LNG carriers worth $500 million, which increased its earnings in orders to $2 billion in the first month of 2023. SHI received the order for two LNG carriers from an undisclosed Oceanian shipp
Ferry operator Irish Ferries has contracted tech provider Armada Technologies for a feasibility study and integration engineering for the Armada ‘passive air lubrication system’ (PALS) onboard their RoPax cruise ferry, W.B. Yeats.
Having aced its sea trials, Lady Maria Fisher, the second LNG dual-fuel tanker built for British marine engineering services provider James Fisher, has been delivered to its owner. The 6,000dwt LNG dual-fuel vessel was built by China Merchants Jinling (CMJL) shipyard in Yangzhou, China, and it was d
Japanese oil and shipping company Eneos has opened a demonstration plant in Brisbane, Australia, which will produce methylcyclohexane (MCH), a liquid hydrogen carrier. The use of MCH as a hydrogen carrier has the potential to simplify the storage and transportation of hydrogen, which is otherwise a
