Essen-based RWE has struck a long-term deal with North Star, the UK’s largest owner and operator of various types of offshore support vessels. With backing from Partners Group, which invested in the Aberdeen-based company three years ago, North Star…

UK-based Anemoi Marine Technologies, a developer of wind-assisted propulsion systems (WAPS), has been awarded GBP 1.2 million in the UK Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition. The funding will support the development of new folding sail systems…

Utrecht-based Mammoet has supported the construction of Europe’s first large-scale green hydrogen plant, Holland Hydrogen 1, under development by energy major, Shell, on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam.

The facility, due on stream at…

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has secured its first US Navy maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) assignment, covering work on the 41,000 tonnes Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo vessel USNS Alan Shepard. The ship, commissioned in 2007 and assigned to…

US representatives Ed Case (Democrat, Hawaii) and James Moylan (Republican, Guam) have introduced the Merchant Marine Allies Partnership Act to the House of Representatives. The bill proposes targeted exceptions to the Merchant Marine Act of 1920,…

Chinese seafood conglomerate Chishan Group has acquired Shandong Baibuting Shipbuilding, restructuring the dormant facility in Rongcheng, Shandong province, under the new name Shandong Fulton Shipbuilding. The move marks Chishan’s entry into…

The vehicle carrier Thames Highway has completed a repair project at Remontowa Shiprepair Yard in Gdańsk, Poland, for Stargate Shipmanagement. The work, part of scheduled maintenance, included hull treatment, mechanical servicing, and general upkeep…