Marseille-based Opsealog, a data integration and energy analysis firm, has been hired on a two-year contract by Azule Energy, Angola’s largest independent energy company. Opsealog will collect vessel data from the Angolan company’s 33-ship offshore…

Cosco Shipping Container Lines has ordered twelve dual-fuel methanol container ships at Cosco Shipping Heavy Industries. The 14,000-TEU vessels will be based on a design developed jointly by the two companies together with Cosco Shipbuilding and…

Lloyd’s Register has issued its first carbon capture and storage notation for a system installed on board the 49,886dwt mid-range chemical/products tanker, Pacific Cobalt, owned by Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS). The Emission Abatement Carbon Capture…

German emissions management specialist, zero44, has unveiled new FuelEU Maritime software in preparation for the new regulations which are due to enter force on January 1st. The software, designed for shipowners, managers and charterers, comes as a…

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…