Hanwha Ocean Co. Ltd has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from Bureau Veritas (BV) for its design of a standard floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) Unit. The design incorporates advanced digital systems to support more…

Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) is to install three 22m-high bound4blue eSAILs® on a medium range tanker currently under construction at New Times Shipbuilding in China. The latest order follows a retrofit installation last February…

Fincantieri-owned Vard has completed an extensive conversion project, transforming a 2008-built platform supply vessel, Volstad Princess, into a specialised cable layer. The IT Infinity, owned by I.T. International Telecom Marine SRL (IT) since 2021,…

Lloyd’s Register has awarded GazTransport & Technigaz (GTT) Approval in Principle (AiP) for a three-tank LNG carrier design with a range of environmental and operational benefits. The 200,000m3 vessel will have three cargo tanks instead of four; and…

MAN Energy Solutions (MAN) has claimed that full-scale tests of a liquid gas injection ammonia (ME-LGIA)  two-stroke engine at its Research Centre Copenhagen herald the start of a new era in ammonia-fuelled machinery. The new tests follow a…

Rotterdam-based green energy specialist, SwitcH2, and Sweden-headquartered CorPower Ocean are teaming up to develop industrial-scale offshore green hydrogen and green ammonia production units based on floating production, storage and offloading…

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s recent speech in the German Bundestag met with much approval. The conditions were not ideal: the so-called “traffic light” coalition between the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals had collapsed…

Wärtsilä is to supply an integrated propulsion package for a 10,600dwt tanker of FKAB Marine Design that is under construction at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Yangzhou) Dingheng. The vessel is the third tanker equipped with a similar Wärtsilä…

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Jiangnan Shipyard, and DNV have celebrated the naming and delivery of the 175,000m3 Al Shelila, the first in a series of large-scale Mark III Flex membrane LNG carriers. The ship is claimed to be one of the…