Royal Caribbean Cruises announced that it has signed an agreement with French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique to build one more Edge-class cruise ship of 140,600gt.more

Following soon after Kongsberg’s takeover of Rolls-Royce’s Commercial Marine business at the beginning of April, the company announced a ten-year service agreement with Havila Kystruten AS covering four coastal cruise vessels.more

Danish marine and offshore engineering group DESMI has announced a new design for an offshore oil spill response vessel/workboat.more

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the Asian Shipowners’ Association and the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) have signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate more closely in future.more

Dredging group Jan De Nul has ordered one more offshore jack-up installation vessel from Chinese yard COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry.more

The 169,000gt Spectrum of the Seas, the first ship in the Quantum-Ultra class, has been delivered by shipbuilder Meyer Werft to Royal Caribbean International.more

Surging demand for LNG carriers has proved to be a catalyst in a new collaboration between Finnish power and automation technology firm Wärtsilä and South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI).more

Norway’s Grovfjord yard has an order from the Port of Oslo to build what is said to be one of the world’s most environmental-efficient work boats.more