Three new RoPax ferries ordered by Finnish ferry operator, Finnlines, are to have Auramarine fuel supply systems for multi-fuel engines capable of running on methanol. The Hansa Superstar-class vessels, due for delivery in 2028 and 2029, will be…

Swiss-based WinGD has unveiled details of a new dual-fuel LNG engine, the X-DF-HP, its first high-pressure unit developed specifically for the high-power requirements of the ultra-large container ship (ULCS) sector. The first engines, scheduled to be…

Copenhagen-based Cadeler, an offshore wind developer, has taken delivery of Wind Mover, the tenth vessel in its growing fleet of wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV). The vessel, second in the M-class series, was delivered ahead of schedule and…

Netherlands-based Windcat, a subsidiary of CMB.TECH, has ordered the first of what could become six new multipurpose accommodation support vessels (MP-ASVs) from Damen Shipyards Group.

The ‘Innovation Series’, as the ships will be known, combine the…

Spanish shipbuilder Gondan has won a contract from Østensjø Rederi to build what will be the Norwegian company’s most powerful tug yet. The 50m-long vessel, with a bollard pull of 150 tonnes, is designed for the most challenging of operations…

Engine firm WinGD has signed an agreement with South Korean shipping technology company, Panasia, to install emissions abatement and fuel efficiency systems on existing X-DF engines. The first X-DF engines were introduced almost ten years ago, and…

Stena Line has named its lates fleet addition in Belfast. The 147m-long hybrid freight ferry, Stena Futura, is the first of two ‘NewMax’ vessels purpose-built for the Belfast-Heysham route. The dual-fuel methanol-ready ship has a 9-MW battery system,…

German marine engineering company, Schottel, has won an order from Scotland’s Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) for a series of seven rudder-propeller systems for double-ended electric ferries to be built at Remontowa Shipbuilding in Poland. …

The tenth and final 7,680dwt bulk carrier in the Labrax series has been launched and named at Royal T Shipyards, formerly Thecla Bodewes, in the Netherlands. Built for the Vertom group, a short-sea operator with more than a hundred vessels, the…

Netherlands-based Multraship has boosted its Bulgarian subsidiary’s fleet with the addition of the Multratug 30, an 80-tonne bollard pull unit built by Sanmar Shipyards. The vessel will operate within the Bourgas Tug Service in the Black Sea.

The…