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…

Turkey’s Cemre Marin Endustri shipyard has launched the first of two RoPax ferries for Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL). Outfitting of the Isle of Islay will continue over the months ahead, prior to sea trials and handover to CMAL in…

The first of three sister vessels in Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ fleet, Hanseatic nature, has been adapted to use shore power in a system that has now been approved by DNV. The cruise ship, which used green shore power during its latest port call in Kiel,…

Crosswind Hollandse Kust Noord, an offshore wind farm about 19km off the Dutch coast, has been awarded a Project Certificate by Lloyd’s Register (LR). The certification process involved a project design review and assessments of manufacturing,…