Marlink, headquartered in Paris and Oslo, and Athens-based Metis, a marine digital technology specialist, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on expanding and developing IoT capabilities for shipowners and fleet operators.

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Kotug International has announced the launch of two large dual-fuel methanol escort tugs. The two 44m-long vessels, built at Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey, will be deployed in British Columbia, Canada, servicing tankers at Burnaby, the Pacific coast…

New safety guidelines on the use of ammonia as fuel on gas carriers have been approved by the IMO. The guidelines have been drawn up by gas shipowner, Exmar, Lloyd’s Register (LR), and the Belgian Government agency, Federal Public Service Mobility…

RINA has awarded UK-based Drift Energy with an Approval in Principle (AiP) for an energy-harvesting ship design which, it is claimed, will be the world’s first net-positive vessel. It is the first AiP to be awarded for a vessel that uses…

The Estonia State Fleet has ordered its first fully electric passenger ferry at Poland’s Crist S.A. shipyard. Scheduled for delivery at the end of 2028, the vessel will operate mainly on shore-charged green electricity. It will be designed for…

Hamburg-based Bernhard Schulte has taken delivery of the tanker, Northern Purpose, marking an important step in the group’s expansion into carbon capture and storage in shipping. The liquid CO2 carrier, with a capacity of 7,500m3, has a dual-fuel LNG…

WinGD has won its first order for large ethanol-fuelled X-DF-M/E engines for two 325,000dwt bulk carriers to be built for China’s Shandong Shipping. The vessels will be constructed at Beihai Shipbuilding and chartered on 25-year deals to Brazilian…

Stillstrom by Maersk has been awarded a grant of EUR 5 million by Horizon Europe, a European Union research and innovation programme, for a project to develop offshore charging for ships at anchor with engines running. The money will fund the…

Spain’s state-owned shipbuilding and design company, Navantia, has signed a deal with ABB for the supply of complete DC-based power distribution and propulsion systems for two hydrographic vessels.

Scheduled for delivery by 2028, the ships will…

The 2024-built Olympic Notos has undergone a series of modifications at Ulstein Verft in preparation for deployment on the Yggdrasil oil and gas field in the North Sea. The Olympic Subsea-owned vessel’s existing walk-to-work setup has been replaced…