Greece-based shipowner Tsakos Energy Navigation is looking to expand its fleet of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers up to six vessels by 2020, according to its founder and chief executive Nikolas Tsakos. The New York-listed company recently completed a 15-newbuilding programme which included one
Royal IHC yesterday held a keel-laying ceremony for the Easydredge 3.700m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) that is being built for Tecnoimport and Empresa Constructora de Obras Maritimas from Havana, Cuba. The new vessel is the largest in the series of standardized Easydredge® twin-screw TSHD
Dutra Group is making great progress with the maintenance dredging of U.S. Naval Station Kings Bay and sand placement at Fernandina Beach, the company reported on its Facebook page. In their latest post, Dutra shared a photo of the Dredge Stuyvesant pumping sand onto the beach in Kings Bay for the U
International Contract Engineering (ICE), the Isle of Man-based ship design company, said it had developed a small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier concept. The shallow-draft LNG carrier with a cargo capacity of 20,000 cbm had been developed in a cooperation with a major operator of gas shi
Disney Cruise Line, a unit of the US-based Walt Disney Company, revealed additional details about its three liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered ships it had ordered at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany. The three new ships will “offer more innovation, new technologies, spectacular entertainment an
Monaco-based LNG shipper GasLog placed an order with the South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries for the construction of a new liquefied natural gas carrier.
LNG shipper Golar said its FLNG Hilli Episeyo located offshore Kribi in Cameroon started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Swansea-based wave energy developer Marine Power Systems (MPS) has concluded tow testing of the WaveSub wave energy device in the Milford Haven Waterway.
VT Halter Marine, a VT Systems company, cut the first steel for America’s first liquefied natural gas articulated tug and barge (LNG ATB) unit, marking the start of construction.
Peruvian liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant shipped its first cargo of the month March and only the second after the facility came back online following a pipeline rupture in February.
Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal operated by Fluxys is scheduled to receive a cargo of Qatari LNG mid-March.
A naming ceremony for Höegh LNG’s eighth floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) was held on Thursday at the Hyundai Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The 170,000-cbm vessel named Höegh Esperanza will have a regas capacity of 750 MMscf/day. The FSRU is 294m long and 46m wide,
Eesti Gaas and Tallink Grupp have signed a five-year framework agreement for the supply of LNG to the latter’s fast ferry the Megastar vessel traveling between Tallinn and Helsinki.
