The Landing Ship Transport (LST) 100 design from Damen Shipyards Group has been selected by the US Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) for up to 35 landing craft to be built in US yards.

The new vessels will be part of the country’s Medium Landing…

Busan Port Authority has launched South Korea’s first all-electric passenger ferry with power and propulsion systems from Switzerland-based ABB. The vessel, built by Kangnam Corporation in Busan, is the first of up to 140 assets which the South…

Danish fast ferry operator, Molslinjen, has ordered a third high-speed electric ferry at Incat Tasmania. The 129m-long battery-electric vessel will join two others that are already being built at the shipyard in Hobart.

The ferries will be deployed…

China Merchants Group subsidiary, Deltamarin, and China Merchants Heavy Industry have received an Approval in Principle (AiP) from classification society ABS for a flexible floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) design suitable for a range…

The first pair of hybrid-electric vessels in Washington State Ferries’ (WSF) extensive vessel upgrade programme are to have hybrid-electric propulsion systems supplied by ABB. The Washington State Hybrid-Electric 160 Auto Ferry Program, the largest…

Three new RoPax ferries ordered by Finnish ferry operator, Finnlines, are to have Auramarine fuel supply systems for multi-fuel engines capable of running on methanol. The Hansa Superstar-class vessels, due for delivery in 2028 and 2029, will be…

Swiss-based WinGD has unveiled details of a new dual-fuel LNG engine, the X-DF-HP, its first high-pressure unit developed specifically for the high-power requirements of the ultra-large container ship (ULCS) sector. The first engines, scheduled to be…

Copenhagen-based Cadeler, an offshore wind developer, has taken delivery of Wind Mover, the tenth vessel in its growing fleet of wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV). The vessel, second in the M-class series, was delivered ahead of schedule and…

Netherlands-based Windcat, a subsidiary of CMB.TECH, has ordered the first of what could become six new multipurpose accommodation support vessels (MP-ASVs) from Damen Shipyards Group.

The ‘Innovation Series’, as the ships will be known, combine the…

Spanish shipbuilder Gondan has won a contract from Østensjø Rederi to build what will be the Norwegian company’s most powerful tug yet. The 50m-long vessel, with a bollard pull of 150 tonnes, is designed for the most challenging of operations…