Florida-based Crystal Cruises has exercised an option for a second ‘state-of-the-art’ cruise ship at Italy’s Fincantieri. The cruise line announced the first vessel contract, with the option that has now been declared, on June 27th.

UK-based wind sail developer, Bar Technologies, and Spanish firm, WindWaves, a manufacturer of offshore wind platforms, are to work together in the promotion and production of BAR’s new 20-24 WindWings® sails. The two companies have already been collaborating in a similar deal on BAR’s larger 37.5m-high WingWings since February.

Hamburg-based MPC Capital, an investment and asset manager specialising in maritime and energy infrastructure, has launched a new investment vehicle targeting offshore wind and service vessels. Its first project involves the construction of six emission-free offshore survey and service vessels (OSSV) which, the company said, aligns with its focus on maritime and energy infrastructure.

Brent Charlie, the biggest and heaviest topside of the Brent field, one of the largest oil and gas fields ever developed in the North Sea, has been landed by heavy-lift specialist, Mammoet, on the quayside at Able Seaton Port, near Hartlepool on England’s north-east coast.   

Netherlands-based startup firm, SeaO₂, specialising in carbon removal technology from seawater, has announced EUR 2 million in new funding. Utilising its Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) technology, which extracts CO₂ from seawater, SeaO₂ aims to mitigate climate change by returning carbon-free water to the ocean, enhancing its ability to absorb CO₂ from the atmosphere. Investors include DOEN Participaties, New-TTT fund, Future Tech Ventures, CarbonFix, and angel investors Eduard Talman and Siddharth Kambe.

Terneuzen-based Multraship Towage & Salvage has named the most recent addition to its tug fleet. The 32m-long Multratug 36, a Damen ASD 3212 design with a bollard pull of 89.5 tonnes, will be deployed in deep-sea and coastal towage, as well as salvage and other operations.

Helsinki-based Wärtsilä has unveiled new NextDF technology developed to cut methane emissions on the Wärtsilä 25DF dual-fuel engine. When running on LNG, the new setup reduces methane emissions to less than 2% of fuel use across all engine load…

Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) is to install two eSAIL® systems developed by Spanish wind sail propulsion firm, bound4blue (b4b), on a new combination carrier on order in China.

A subsidiary of the Norwegian bulk shipping company, Cabu III, is…