The 2003-built offshore support vessel, Viking Energy, is to have an ammonia engine retrofit, making it the first vessel of its kind to use ammonia as fuel. The Eidesvik Offshore-owned vessel will continue to operate with the new engine for Norway’s…

Kongsberg Maritime is to test Eutelsat OneWeb’s low earth orbit (LEO) satellite on an autonomous barge,  owned and operated by Norway’s largest grocery distributor, ASKO, on a service across the Oslo Fjord.

The zero-emission electric barge is to be…

Danish Shipping, which represents the country’s maritime business, is hoping that negotiations with Germany will give the green light to the North Sea Energy Island, seen as an essential development to supply green electricity for the production of…

Japanese classification society, ClassNK, has issued the first accreditation for ‘Machinery Room Safety for Ammonia’ (MRS) which is to be assigned to a 40,000m3 ammonia-fuelled medium gas carrier currently under development by a Japanese consortium.…

Kiel-based navigation specialist, Anschütz, has launched an upgraded version of its Synapsis NX software for Integrated Navigation System (INS), Radar NX, and ECDIS NX applications. The new software will be presented at SMM next month.

The new…

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CMB.TECH subsidiary, Windcat, has retained Hong Kong-headquartered ship manager, Anglo-Eastern, to operate the first of six ‘Elevation series’ commissioning service operation vessels (CSOV).

The vessels, currently under construction at Ha Long…

The AAL Limassol, the first of eight Super B-class project cargo vessels, being built for AAL Shipping at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard in Guangzhou, China, has completed its maiden voyage.

The Singapore-based heavy-lift company’s 32,000dwt vessel…