The steel cutting ceremony for the new 44,180kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) SPARTACUS took place today, DEME Group said in its latest announcement. CSD SPARTACUS, which will be built by Royal IHC, will be the world’s first LNG-powered cutter suction dredger and follows the order of t
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest leisure travel company, held on Wednesday a virtual keel laying ceremony during an event in Hamburg for the first of a total of seven cruise ships that will be fully powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The seven new ships for four Carnival Corporation’s
The launching ceremony of new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Arzana, built by Royal IHC for the Abu Dhabi based marine contractor National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), is set to take place later this month. The vessel, scheduled to be delivered in the first half of 2018, will have a capac
ISA Towage B.V. has taken delivery of a Shoalbuster 3209 from Damen Shipyard Hardinxveld (DSHa). The vessel was already in stock at the yard and was handed over to the client within four weeks of the order being agreed. The purchase of the 3209 by ISA Towage B.V. marks the return of the Dutch towage
Wave Hub has completed the inspection of its subsea cable system installed as part of its wave energy test site infrastructure located off Cornwall in the UK.
Poland’s state-owned gas company PGNiG has bought a cargo of spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Norway’s Statoil. Delivery from Norway will be the second spot supply from this country that will land at Poland’s Lech Kaczyński LNG terminal in Świnoujście. Poland also received two spot deliveries f
Finnish shipowner ESL Shipping said that Viikki, claimed to be the first LNG-powered handysize bulk carrier in the world, was launched on August 31 at the Jinling shipyard in Nanjing, China. The 160-meter LNG-powered vessel of 26,000 dwt produces more than 50 percent lower carbon dioxide emissions t
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea is in talks to change the delivery dates of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers ordered by a European owner. The extension was requested by the unnamed shipowner, according to a filing to the Korean stock exchange by the shipbuilding
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (August 28 – September 3, 2017). TSHD Arzana Launching Ceremony Takes Place This Month Royal IHC is putting final touches on the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Arzana at their shipyard in Kinderdijk, t
Japan’s Inpex said Friday that a naming ceremony was held for the LNG tanker that will supply liquefied natural gas from the giant Ichthys project in Australia to Taiwan’s CPC Corporation. The ceremony took place at Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ (KHI) Sakaide Works in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan where con
Lithuania, the largest of the three Baltic nations, received a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Statoil’s Hammerfest liquefaction plant in Norway. The 147,980-cbm Arctic Princess, owned by Höegh LNG and on a long-term charter with Statoil, arrived in the port of Klaipeda where the Independe
REN-operated Sines LNG import terminal in Portugal is to receive a new cargo of the chilled fuel, shipping data by the Port of Sines shows.
The photos show the re-installation of a third tidal turbine for the Phase 1A of the MeyGen tidal stream project which took place earlier this week at an offshore site between Scotland’s northernmost coast and the island of Stroma.
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract with Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) for LNG-fueled RoPax ferry.
