Tokyo-based NYK Line, Norway’s Yara Clean Ammonia, and Singapore bunker firm Golden Island have drawn up a non-binding Term Sheet in preparation for a partnership to explore the marketing and supply of low-carbon ammonia as marine fuel in Singapore. …

London-based Anemoi Marine Technologies and Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering (NACKS) have released details of a new wind-assisted propulsion system (WAPS) specifically for ultramax bulk carriers in the 60-65,000dwt range. Two configurations have…

Anschütz is supplying Integrated Navigation and Bridge Systems for three vessels under construction at the Abeking & Rasmussen shipyard near Bremen for the German Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV).

The Synapsis systems provide integrated…

Netherlands-based Boskalis has deployed remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from a new facility in Aberdeen. The Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Aberdeen and the development of ROVs has involved an investment of GBP 40 million.

The ROC will provide…

Netherlands-based Econowind has launched a new version of its steel suction wing system aimed at larger vessels in ocean trades. The new 5-series Ventofoil is a 30-m version of the company’s smaller 3-series suction wings which are available in 10-m…

Antwerp-based Exmar has named what it calls the world’s first two ammonia dual-fuel mid-sized gas carriers. The 46,000-m3 Antwerpen and Arlon have been developed jointly with HD Hyundai in a project that has taken more than 40 months. The resulting…

A fast hybrid catamaran to be built by Australia’s Austal Limited is to have a battery system supplied by Echandia, a Swedish manufacturer of batteries for the shipping industry. The Gotland Horizon X, ordered by Visby-based Gotlandsbolaget, will be…

Belgium’s Jan De Nul has launched the cable-layer William Thomson at CMHI Haimen shipyard in China. The vessel is the second in a pair of cable-layers and follows launch of the Fleeming Jenkin last October. The two cable-layers are said to be the…

A 700-TEU container ship to be deployed in Japan’s domestic liner trades is the first newly constructed ship to be granted ‘AUTO-Nav2(All)” notation by ClassNK. It provides assurance that the ship has been designed and built under the MEGURI2040…