Delivery and commissioning of the service operation vessel (SOV), Grampian Tweed, completes North Star’s fleet of support ships serving the Dogger Bank Wind Farm which, when completed, will be the world’s largest offshore wind facility. The naming…

Flensburg shipyard, FSG, and Nobiskrug in Rendsburg have been rescued from collapse as two provisional insolvency administrators have accepted takeover offers in a seven-week timeframe. The Rönner Group from Bremerhaven will take control of FSG and…

Journalists and editors are rarely speechless. Nor should they be, as communication is their profession, the principal tool of their trade. And yet, I don’t really know where to start at the moment. Almost every conversation – professional or…

MAN Energy Solutions’ two-stroke ME-LGIA (Liquid Gas Injection Ammonia) engine, undergoing tests at the engine company’s Research Centre Copenhagen facility, has operated at 100% load for the first time, the MAN has reported. Its proprietary…

Switzerland-based Viking Cruises has ordered eight more ‘Longship’ river cruise vessels at Neptun Werft in Rostock. The shipyard is already building ten vessels in the Longship series which are due to be completed later this year and next.

The eight…

Rotterdam-based Ulstein Design & Solutions BV, retained by Japanese engineering contractor, Penta-Ocean Construction, has designed a new heavy-lift vessel for offshore wind foundation installation. The Ulstein HX118 vessel, to be built at Seatrium in…

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore has overseen delivery of the third and final 7,600m3 LNG bunkering vessel, S1067, to Seaspan group bunkering subsidiary, Seaspan Energy. Built by Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co Ltd, (CIMC SOE), the…

Winterthur-based marine engine firm, WinGD, is close to completing final tests on its ammonia dual-fuel engines and the first units are scheduled to be delivered from June this year. The company has disclosed that latest tests of its X-DF-A…