China Merchants-owned Finnish ship design firm, Deltamarin, has landed a deal with China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Jiangsu) for the design of larger Shaper Class pure car truck carriers in an existing order from Wallenius Wilhelmsen. On delivery in…

A commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) under construction at Ulstein Verft in Norway has been launched for owner, BS Offshore, part of the Hamburg-headquartered Bernhard Schulte Group. The ship’s launch followed outfitting that included…

Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding and Repair yard (ASRY) and Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build, repair, refit and convert naval and commercial vessels. The agreement is intended to advance the regional…

Eidesvik Offshore, together with partners Agalas, an offshore support vessel owner, and Reach Subsea, a geophysical monitoring specialist, has ordered a new construction support vessel (CSV) for deployment in the subsea and renewable sectors.

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ClassNK has signed a collaboration with Hamburg-based OceanScore enabling users of the classification society’s Zero Emissions Transition Accelerator (ClassNK ZETA) to access monitoring, reporting, verification (MRV) and data collection system (DCS)…

German companies, Elomatic Maritime Technologies GmbH and thyssenkrupp Marine Systems AG (TKMS) have signed a contract to design and build a new icebreaking polar research vessel. Polarstern 2 is to be built at the TKMS shipyard in Wismar and will…

Norway’s electric ferry, Ampere, has notched up ten years of electric operation carry passengers and vehicles across the Sognefjord on the country’s west coast. The vessel’s battery pack has provided sufficient energy for the ferry to sail the…

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (Mitsui E&S) has embarked on tests of the world’s first commercial, two-stroke, dual-fuel ammonia engine. A prototype engine, the MAN B&W 7S60ME-LGIA Mk 10.5, has now begun its first test run at the Japanese…

Singapore-based Ocean Network Express (ONE) has named the first of five new 13,800-TEU container ships, ONE Sparkle, at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The vessel is the first newbuilding owned by the consortium which was established in 2017…

Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV) has signed a deal with Rossellini’s Four-10 to fit out the interior and exterior spaces of the research and expedition vessel, REV Ocean. The 194m-long vessel is intended to undertake research covering the entire…