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…

Stena RoRo has acquired the RoRo freight ferry, Giuseppe Lucchesi, from Compagnie Italiana de Navigazione S.p.A., a Moby Lines S.p.A., company and will rename it the Stena Shipper. Now flying the Danish flag, the vessel is to be deployed between…

French container line, CMA CGM, is to install newly released EnviroPac methane reduction systems from Wärtsilä on eight 9,200-TEU LNG-fuelled container ships under construction at Shanghai Waigaogiao Shipbuilding (SWS) in China.

The EnviroPac…

Germany’s crisis-hit FSG-Nobiskrug shipyards, which filed for insolvency during the second week of December, could be rescued from collapse by industry-related German companies, the provisional insolvency administrators announced last week. Just…

Copenhagen-based towage company, Svitzer, has ordered another battery-powered tug to be built by Sanmar Shipyard and deployed in the Øresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden. With a capacity of 1,818 Mwh and a 70-tonne bollard pull, the 52m-long…