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Port adopts AI-powered systems to boost efficiency

The Port of Cork Company, Ireland’s second busiest port, has signed up Innovez One, a provider of port management services, to provide software that will improve efficiency and optimise services for ships arrive and departing from the port. Port…

30.03.2023

Offshore

Damen to build eight vessels for wind farm operation

Damen Shipyards has won a contract from London-based Purus Wind to build eight low-emission vessels for offshore wind farm operations. The order comprises four fast crew supplier (FCS) 2710 Hybrids, three Damen FCS 3210 Hybrids, and one 90m-long…

30.03.2023

Shipbuilding

ABB lands Azipod cruise contract

ABB has won a deal to provide Azipod® propulsion units for four cruise ships built by Fincantieri. The company will provide eight 7.7-MW Azipods for the medium-sized cruise vessels, due for delivery between 2024 and 2027. Azipod technology has a…

29.03.2023

Shipbuilding

WinGD supplies methanol engines for container ships

WinGD is to supply 10X92DF-M methanol-fuelled engines for four 16,000-TEU container ships ordered by Cosco Shipping Lines at Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry (Yangzhou) Co. Ltd. On delivery from 2025, the vessels will be the first in China to have…

28.03.2023

Shipbuilding

Damen develops new shrimp trawler design

Damen has revealed details of its newly configured Shrimp Trawler 2607. Incorporating various upgrades from the company's existing design, the new trawler has been developed for low fuel consumption. Eric Moerkerk, managing director of Damen…

27.03.2023

Shipbuilding

Malta takes delivery of new ‘flagship’

The Maltese Government has taken delivery of a new 75m-long offshore patrol vessel, OPV P71, described as ‘the new flagship of the armed forces of Malta’, from Italian shipyard Cantiere Navale Vittoria. The ship will undertake coastal surveillance,…

27.03.2023

Shipbuilding

Alfa Laval buys air lubrication firm

Alfa Laval has announced its takeover of Rotterdam-based Marine Performance System BV (MPS), a maritime technology company that has developed a fluidic air lubrication system, FluidicAL, which is claimed to be the first of its kind. Alfa Laval first…

23.03.2023

Offshore

MSS changes hands within A.P. Møller group

A.P. Møller Holding AS has paid USD 685 million to acquire Maersk Supply Service AS (MSS) from A.P. Møller-Maersk AS. The transfer of ownership is the latest move in the group’s strategy to channel A.P. Møller-Maersk into focusing on transport and…

23.03.2023

Shipbuilding

BV to class hybrid ferries for Hong Kong

Bureau Veritas (BV) is to class two hybrid double-ended ferries designed by Netherlands-based CoCo Yachts for operation by Sun Ferry Services Company Limited in Hong Kong. The two vessels will carry about four million passengers a year between…

21.03.2023

Shipbuilding

Carbon capture system awarded AiP

Norway’s Rotoboost AS has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register (LR) for its pre-combustion carbon capture system, Rotobox. The technology, suitable for LNG carriers and other LNG-fuelled vessels, is based on a thermocatalytic…

20.03.2023

Shipping

Comms and SaaS providers to enhance digital options

Communications firm, Marlink, and ABS-affiliated software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, ABS WavesightTM, are to collaborate on optimised connectivity in the provision of services and data to clients’ ships. The agreement will result in connections…

20.03.2023

Offshore

DNV study reveals offshore hydrogen potential

A study undertaken by DNV, commissioned by infrastructure system operators Gascade and Fluxys, has revealed the importance of offshore hydrogen production in Europe’s future energy mix. The sector is likely to play a key role, both as a means of…

17.03.2023

Shipbuilding

Damen supplies rudder and steering gear for research vessel

Damen Marine Components (DMC) has supplied a high-lift Barke® flap rudder and piston-type steering gear for a research ship, the Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandra. The 35m-long vessel has been built by Holland Shipyards Group in Hardinxveld-Giessendam for…

17.03.2023

Shipbuilding

RINA grants AiP for methanol-ready engine

Italian classification society, RINA, has awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to MAN Energy Solutions for its methanol-ready, four-stroke 32/44CR engine. The AiP relates to possible conversion of the engine so that it can become a dual-fuel unit…

16.03.2023

Offshore

DNV awards AiP for floating ammonia plant

An industrial-scale concept for a floating green ammonia plant developed by Netherlands-based SwitchH2 BV and Norway’s BW Offshore has been awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) by classification society DNV. The concept, known as NH3 FPSO, will be…

13.03.2023

Comment

Editorial of Ship&Offshore 2/2023: From cradle to grave

The end of life of a ship is – similar to living beings – something we sometimes deal with unwillingly or too little. The vessel has done its job, made profits at best, and now has to quit. When we talk about recycling ships, most of us have images…

10.03.2023

Shipbuilding

First order for G80 dual-fuel methanol engine

MAN B&W has landed another order for dual-fuelled methanol engines. Shipbuilders Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co and HK Shipbuilding & Construction Co have ordered MAN B&W G80ME-LGIM engines for nine 9,000-TEU container ships being built for…

10.03.2023

Shipbuilding

Houlder to participate in wing sail project

London-based engineering consultancy, Houlder, is to assist in system integration and subsequent performance monitoring of a Winds of Change wing sail installation led by Smart Green Shipping (SGS). The project involves the retrofit of a SGS FastRig…

10.03.2023

Shipbuilding

Wärtsilä to deliver its first CCS-ready scrubber systems

The technology group Wärtsilä announced that it has received its first order for carbon capture and storage (CCS)-ready scrubber systems. Four 8,200 TEU container vessels, being built at an undisclosed Asian shipyard, are to be fitted with Wärtsilä’s…

09.03.2023

Offshore

X1 Wind generates first power from floating plant

Spanish offshore wind developer, X1 Wind, has announced that its X30 floating wind prototype has produced its first electricity in the Canary Islands. The power was supplied to the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), a techno-scientific…

08.03.2023

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