Malaysia-headquartered Megamas Resources has signed up Ulstein Design & Solutions AS to begin the engineering phase of a fibre-optic cable-laying vessel to be built at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven in Germany. The contract was announced during Nor-Shipping…

ABB has won a contract to supply electrical equipment and automation systems for two new Petrobras floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to be built by Singapore-based Seatrium.

The P-84 and P-85 units will be stationed on the At…

Finland’s Viking Line is planning to launch an emissions-free green corridor across the Gulf of Finland between Helsinki and Tallinn in Estonia. The concept, called Helios, is based on design of the world’s largest fully electric ferry with capacity…

Corvus Energy and HD Hyundai Mipo have been awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) by DNV for a product tanker design with a carbon-free propulsion system based on Corvus fuel cells. The setup combines hydrogen fuel cell technology with an ammonia…

Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled a new system, K-Sail, to ensure that wind-assisted propulsion systems are integrated effectively with other shipboard systems to maximise potential energy and emission savings.

The K-Sail system incorporates various…

One of the world’s leading marine engine developers and builders, MAN Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of  Volkswagen Group, has decided it is time for a name change. From now on, it is to be known as Everllence, a combination of two words – ‘ever’ and…

Two 1,300-TEU feeder container ships owned by MPC Container Ships (MPCC) and chartered on 15-year contracts to North Sea Container Line have been commissioned with dual-fuel propulsion systems from Berg Propulsion that can use methanol or marine…

Fincantieri’s Norwegian shipbuilding subsidiary, VARD, has announced the delivery of two commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) which, it claims, are two of the world’s first vessels with cyber notation. The CSOVs, Grampian Kestrel and Purus…