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Further two-month delay to repairs to CalMac’s RoPax ferry Caledonian Isles

The problems of running a lifeline ferry service with an ageing fleet and a punishing year-round service schedule are only too evident at Scotland’s largest ferry company, Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac). CalMac’s 31-year old RoPax ferry Caledonian…

Former Fred Olsen Cruise Line’s Braemar arrives in Belfast for conversion into residence cruise ship

The former Fred Olsen Cruise Line-owned vessel Braemar arrived at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast on April 26th for her conversion into the residential cruise vessel Villa Vie Odyssey. The vessel arrived in Belfast from the Scottish port of…

23.04.2024

Zero-emission boxship project launched

Japan’s container feeder operator, Imoto Lines, and software firm Marindows have embarked on a zero-emission container ship project for operation on the Japanese coast. An initiative within the Ministry of the Environment’s three-year ‘Carbon Neutral…

26.04.2024

Offshore

Iberdrola signs up for new Volue software

Bilbao-based multinational energy company, Iberdrola, is to use energy trading software from Volue, a publicly traded Norwegian firm, to optimise power scheduling and algorithmic trading in the German and French energy markets.

The Spanish company…

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Maersk and Vestas to develop South Korean offshore wind hub

Offshore wind turbine developer, Vestas, and A.P. Møller-Maersk have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a nacelle manufacturing plant and logistics base at the Mokpo New Port Hinterland Complex in South Korea.

The MoU outlines…

24.04.2024

Value Maritime and MOL team up to capture carbon

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) is to install an exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) with carbon capture on board the 74,910dwt products tanker, Nexus Victoria. The Long Range 1 (LR1) tanker, built in 2015, will be fitted with a 15-MW EGCS Filtree…

22.04.2024

SDARI unveils two new MPV designs

Shanghai Shipbuilding Research and Design Institute (SDARI) has revealed details of two new multi-purpose vessel (MPV) designs suitable for heavy-lift and project cargoes. The Octopus 12.6 and the Octopus 12 have been developed in collaboration with…

19.04.2024

Hydrogen-powered ferries to be classed by LR

A pair of hydrogen-powered ferries to be built at Norway’s Myklebust Verft for Tromsø-based Torgatten Nord will be classed by Lloyd’s Register (LR). The ships’ design was granted Approval in Principle (AiP) by the classification society in August…

Damen Shipyards said it has received another order for a 3,850dwt…

The German industrial group Thyssenkrupp has appealed against the…

Ship Repair

APC to recoat cargo tanks of two Gulf Navigation chemical tankers at Chinese shipyard

Ohio-based Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) is to recoat the cargo tanks of two Gulf Navigation-owned chemical tankers at China’s IMC Shipyard in Zhoushan, with APC providing specialist on-the-ground guidance led by its China-based engineering team.

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Denmark’s Fayard drydocks RoPax ferry Atlantic Vision after nearly 16 years service in Canada

The 30,285gt 2002-built RoPax ferry Atlantic Vision drydocked at Denmark’s Fayard ship repair facility in Munkebo on April 17th after completing a long-term bareboat charter to Canadian ferry operator Marine Atlantic. Owned by Baltic SF IX, a…

26.04.2024

Ontario Shipyards mothballs its Thunder Bay facility

Canadian Great Lakes ship repairer Ontario Shipyards (formerly known as Heddle Shipyards) is closing its Thunder Bay yard temporarily due to lack of repair work, a shortage of skilled workers and the non-arrival of some newbuilding sub-contract work…

26.04.2024