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Ship&Offshore
03.02.2025
Companies & People

Elomatic acquires cruise engineering specialist Ablemans LCS Oy

Turku-based engineering firm, Elomatic, has bought Ablemans LCS Oy (ALCS), a cruise ship docking, refit, and technical service specialist. The acquisition will broaden Elomatic’s service provision in the marine sector, taking the company beyond…

Ship&Offshore
03.02.2025
Comment

Editorial of Ship&Offshore 02/2025: Second term ahead

Journalists and editors are rarely speechless. Nor should they be, as communication is their profession, the principal tool of their trade. And yet, I don’t really know where to start at the moment. Almost every conversation – professional or…

Ship&Offshore
31.01.2025
Shipbuilding

MAN’s ammonia test engine runs at 100% load

MAN Energy Solutions’ two-stroke ME-LGIA (Liquid Gas Injection Ammonia) engine, undergoing tests at the engine company’s Research Centre Copenhagen facility, has operated at 100% load for the first time, the MAN has reported. Its proprietary…

Ship&Offshore
31.01.2025
Shipbuilding

Viking orders eight more river cruise ships at Neptun

Switzerland-based Viking Cruises has ordered eight more ‘Longship’ river cruise vessels at Neptun Werft in Rostock. The shipyard is already building ten vessels in the Longship series which are due to be completed later this year and next.

The eight…

Ship&Offshore
28.01.2025
Offshore

New heavy-lift vessel to be built to Ulstein design

Rotterdam-based Ulstein Design & Solutions BV, retained by Japanese engineering contractor, Penta-Ocean Construction, has designed a new heavy-lift vessel for offshore wind foundation installation. The Ulstein HX118 vessel, to be built at Seatrium in…

Ship&Offshore
28.01.2025
Shipbuilding

Seaspan Energy commissions BV-classed LNG bunker tanker

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore has overseen delivery of the third and final 7,600m3 LNG bunkering vessel, S1067, to Seaspan group bunkering subsidiary, Seaspan Energy. Built by Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co Ltd, (CIMC SOE), the…

Ship&Offshore
26.01.2025
Shipbuilding

MAN upgrades engine oil monitor

MAN Energy Solutions has launched a new version of the MAN Fluid Monitor (MFM) and has  extended the technology to two-stroke engines (bearing-lubrication circuit). This development has led to a renaming of the product which will now be known as the…

Ship&Offshore
24.01.2025
Shipbuilding

WinGD ammonia dual-fuel engines available from June

Winterthur-based marine engine firm, WinGD, is close to completing final tests on its ammonia dual-fuel engines and the first units are scheduled to be delivered from June this year. The company has disclosed that latest tests of its X-DF-A…

Ship&Offshore
23.01.2025
Ship Operation

Stena RoRo acquires ferry for France-Tunisia service

Stena RoRo has acquired the RoRo freight ferry, Giuseppe Lucchesi, from Compagnie Italiana de Navigazione S.p.A., a Moby Lines S.p.A., company and will rename it the Stena Shipper. Now flying the Danish flag, the vessel is to be deployed between…

Ship&Offshore
21.01.2025
Shipbuilding

CMA CGM orders methane reduction equipment for box ships

French container line, CMA CGM, is to install newly released EnviroPac methane reduction systems from Wärtsilä on eight 9,200-TEU LNG-fuelled container ships under construction at Shanghai Waigaogiao Shipbuilding (SWS) in China.

The EnviroPac…