Engine firm WinGD has signed an agreement with South Korean shipping technology company, Panasia, to install emissions abatement and fuel efficiency systems on existing X-DF engines. The first X-DF engines were introduced almost ten years ago, and…

Stena Line has named its lates fleet addition in Belfast. The 147m-long hybrid freight ferry, Stena Futura, is the first of two ‘NewMax’ vessels purpose-built for the Belfast-Heysham route. The dual-fuel methanol-ready ship has a 9-MW battery system,…

German marine engineering company, Schottel, has won an order from Scotland’s Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) for a series of seven rudder-propeller systems for double-ended electric ferries to be built at Remontowa Shipbuilding in Poland. …

The tenth and final 7,680dwt bulk carrier in the Labrax series has been launched and named at Royal T Shipyards, formerly Thecla Bodewes, in the Netherlands. Built for the Vertom group, a short-sea operator with more than a hundred vessels, the…

Netherlands-based Multraship has boosted its Bulgarian subsidiary’s fleet with the addition of the Multratug 30, an 80-tonne bollard pull unit built by Sanmar Shipyards. The vessel will operate within the Bourgas Tug Service in the Black Sea.

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Construction of the DP3 cable layer¸ Nexans Electra, has come close to the end of its outfitting stage and the vessel has now been launched from the enclosed dock hall at Ulstein Verft in Norway. The next stage, involving the final assembly,…

MSC Cruises has confirmed orders for the seventh and eighth ship in its World-class series with Chantiers de l’Atlantique, valued at EUR 3.5 billion. The announcement was made during a double celebration at the Saint-Nazaire shipyard, marking the…

Marseille-based CMA CGM has signed a term sheet to acquire a 20% stake in the Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg. The liner major is already a customer at the terminal through its French Asia Line (FAL) service connecting northern Europe with ports…

UK-based Anemoi Marine Technologies has completed the retrofit of five rotor sails on the 400,000dwt ore carrier, NSU Tubarao. The five-year-old 361m-long vessel, owned by Japan’s NS United Kaiun Kaisha, is on charter to Brazilian iron ore mining…