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…

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…

Steel has now been cut for two large offshoe tugs at Albwardy Damen Shipyard in the UAE. Construction will combine the shipyard’s expertise with that of marine engineering specialist, Alewijnse, a Netherlands-based electrical, automation, and systems…

EcoNavis Solutions, a Glasgow-based developer, says it is working on a next-generation wind-assisted propulsion system aimed at improving the performance and commercial viability of Flettner-type rotor sails for deep-sea shipping.

The company’s “Eco…

Wah Kwong NatPower and Chinese green energy company, Wuxing Ruituo, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to focus on the development of zero-carbon inland waterway shipping routes in China.

The partners believe that there is huge…

Hong Kong-based Wah Kwong Maritime Transport and Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) have celebrated the delivery of the Long Range 2 (LR2) tanker, Frontier Venture, the first in a series of new tankers with “augmented ship” features that integrate…

Gothenburg-based Stena RoRo has taken delivery of its 13th E-Flexer RoPax ferry from China Merchants’ Weihai shipyard. Named Capu Rossu, the vessel has been handed over to Corsica Linea following its delivery to the Swedish company. It will be…