Viking Life-Saving Equipment is to build four fast response vessels for Tolletaten, the Norwegian Customs Service. The company will deliver four Viking Norsafe boats including one Marathon S-900, powered by twin 350-hp Mercury engines, and three…

Friedrichshafen-based Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG has completed successful tests of the world’s first high-speed marine engine powered exclusively by methanol. The company has worked closely with partners Woodward L’Orange and WTZ Roßlau in the…

French ballast water treatment system manufacturer, BIO-UV Group, has completed the first commercial deployment of its containerised Bio-Sea ballast water treatment system (BWTS) in support of the first floating offshore wind farm in the French…

The extraordinary session of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee, held in London last week, failed to agree a deal on the UN Agency’s Net-Zero Framework, which has now been delayed for a year. Many maritime decarbonisation experts are…

Norwegian shipowner Møre Sjø has chosen Bureau Veritas (BV) to class two, option two, hydrogen-powered cargo vessels. The 89m-long vessels, with a capacity of about 3,750gt, are to be built at Gelibolu Shipyard in Turkey and will be the first general…

Oslo-based MPC Container Ships (MPCC) has signed up for two 1,600-TEU container ships at Fujian Mawei Shipyards in China. The contract, worth USD 66 million, includes options for more vessels if market conditions remain favourable.

The two ships…