I dare say that shipping is the biggest melting pot – by definition a place or a situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get mixed together – among the multitude of global industries. No other business brings together so many…

Lotos Petrobaltic SA, an offshore energy and mining subsidiary of Poland’s Orlen Group, has ordered a new crew transfer vessel (CTV) at Strategic Marine shipyard in Singapore. The StratCat 27 CTV is due for delivery in September.

The vessel, to be…

Finland-based Meyer Floating Solutions and Florida’s Oceaya LLC have announced a new partnership that will design and build luxury modular floating entertainment facilities such as cinemas, gourmet restaurants and nightclubs.

Due to launch next…

Germany’s Wallaby Boats GmbH and Hitzler Werft GmbH have celebrated the launching of a new crew transfer vessel (CTV) with twin hulls equipped with ‘independent suspension’. The 18m-long catamaran, Wallaby-18, weighs 50 tonnes and is the first vessel…

Digital communications provider, Marlink, has supplied a hybrid network for the expedition cruise ship, Exploris One, formerly the Silver Explorer. The vessel was acquired by the new French expedition cruise company, Exploris Expeditions, in December…

The Port of Skagen and Maersk subsidiary, Stillstrom, an offshore charging specialist, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide offshore power and charging systems at the Skagen anchorage. One of the busiest stopovers in northern Europe,…

The 2014-built Neopanamax container ship, Ever Top, has been granted ‘SCCS-Full’ class notation by ClassNK for its carbon capture and storage (CCS) system. It is the first ship of this size to have such a retrofit.

The CCS installation, designed and…