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Ship&Offshore
26.01.2026
Shipbuilding

MAN Engines first to offer CHC-compliant V12 engines

MAN Engines, a pioneer in low-emission engines for harbour craft, has become the first engine manufacturer to offer certified V12 engines for medium- and heavy-duty applications complying with the highest level of Commercial Harbour Craft (CHC)…

Ship&Offshore
23.01.2026
Shipbuilding

Kongsberg gears up to compete for naval contracts

Kongsberg Maritime (KM) has revealed that it intends to participate in the prequalification phase of the competition to partner with the Royal Norwegian Navy on new standardised vessels. The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency is to hold a national…

Ship&Offshore
23.01.2026
Shipbuilding

LR to lead cross-sector nuclear initiative

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has convened a high-powered group of experts from the nuclear, maritime, insurance and regulatory sectors to draw up standards for the safe, secure and commercially viable development and operation of nuclear-powered merchant…

Ship&Offshore
19.01.2026
Shipbuilding

MPC OSE Offshore secures long-term funding for offshore vessels

Hamburg-based MPC OSE Offshore, a joint venture between MPC Capital and O.S. Energy, an offshore wind vessel operator, has secured twelve-year funding for a fleet of offshore survey and support vessels (OSSV) due for delivery later this year and…

Ship&Offshore
19.01.2026
Offshore

Ulstein wins two-ship cable layer deal

Malaysia’s OMS Group has ordered two cable layers at Ulstein in Norway. The contract, signed late in December, is the latest step in the Asian company’s expansion strategy and comes at a time of surging demand for high-capacity subsea cable systems. …

Ship&Offshore
19.01.2026
Shipbuilding

Largest battery-electric ferry starts sea trials

Incat Tasmania has begun sea trials of what is claimed to be the world’s largest battery-electric ship in Hobart. The 130m-long passenger-vehicle ferry is undergoing a series of test manoeuvres on the River Derwent which flows through the Tasmanian…

Ship&Offshore
17.01.2026
Ship Operation

Viam and Rivertrace to use AI in tackling pollution risk

New York-based robotics and AI technology firm, Viam, and UK oil-in-water monitoring specialist, Rivertrace, have joined forces are to develop systems for the digital and environmental compliance monitoring of merchant vessels.

Until now,…

Ship&Offshore
16.01.2026
Ship Operation

SEA.AI and Barnacle Systems announce new partnership

SEA.AI, a provider of maritime machine vision using artificial intelligence based in Austria, and Barnacle Systems, a Canadian company specialising in vessel monitoring, surveillance, and fleet intelligence, have teamed up to record, store and…

Ship&Offshore
13.01.2026
Ports & Logistics

Rina and HPC execute five-year Caspian Sea ports project

Classification society Rina and Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC) have won a five-year deal – ‘Promoting Green Ports and Connectivity in the Caspian Sea Region’. The green ports project will assist ports in the Caspian and Black Sea – Baku in Azerbaijan,…

Ship&Offshore
12.01.2026
Ship Operation

Hydrogen as fuel assessed in LR report

Hydrogen is likely to play a major role to play in shipping’s decarbonisation drive, according to a new report from Lloyd’s Register (LR). The latest publication in the classification society’s ‘Fuel for Thought’ series examines the scope for its…