News

OceanScore completes successful seed funding round

Hamburg-based OceanScore, a technology developer and data provider in the maritime field, has completed a successful funding process that has raised capital from investors including MSC, P. Döhle, the Schoeller family, TecPier and Israel’s theDOCK. …

07.08.2023

Operation

CAPTN project takes major step forward

The commissioning of a Shore Control Centre at Anschütz will now enable the real-time tracking of research platform MV Wavelab as part of the Clean Autonomous Public Transportation Network (CAPTN) project on the Kiel Fjord. The CAPTN initiative aims…

07.08.2023

Shipbuilding

Deltamarin clinches series of PCTC design deals

Deltamarin has won a series of ship design contracts for pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) from three separate shipowning groups. Up to 16 vessels could now be built to the company’s designs, all of them in Chinese shipyards. China’s largest…

04.08.2023

Shipbuilding

Damen wins Combi Freighter contract

Damen Shipyards has signed a deal with Turkey’s Feyz Group for three Damen Combi Freighter 3850s. The flexible general cargo ships, with a deadweight of 3,850 tonnes, will be built at the Damen Yichang Shipyard in China. The recently redesigned CF…

03.08.2023

Shipbuilding

‘Next shipyard chapter’ begins at Meyer Wismar

Insolvency administrator of the MV Werften Group, Dr Christoph Morgen, has passed the symbolic key of the Wismar shipyard to Bernard Meyer of Meyer Wismar. "With the handover of the shipyard to Meyer Wismar, we’re now marking the beginning of the…

03.08.2023

Shipping

Ocean box rates likely to keep on falling

Despite the so-called peak season just around the corner, ocean freight rates have sunk to a two-year low, down almost 58% year on year after a 9.5% tumble between June and July, according to Oslo-based freight and logistics analyst, Xeneta. Real-ti…

01.08.2023

Shipping

Close to 70 ports now supply green LNG

Bio-LNG, a green fuel produced from organic household and industrial waste, manure, and sewage sludge, is now available in almost 70 ports, according to the latest update from SEA-LNG in its online Bunker Navigator tool. Northern Europe has the…

28.07.2023

Comment

Editorial of Ship&Offshore 4/2023: The lowest common denominator

“The world may have just missed its chance to seriously tackle shipping emissions!” This is the headline of a recent editorial in the Time Magazine commenting on the outcome of the MEPC 80 meeting in London at the beginning of July. In fact,…

28.07.2023

Shipbuilding

Wärtsilä technology clocks up 6% efficiency gain

The two Wärtsilä systems, EnergoFlow and EnergoProFin, installed on two medium-range tankers owned during the summer of 2022, have notched up efficiency gains and emission reductions averaging 6%, the company claims in a statement. The two tankers, …

27.07.2023

Shipbuilding

Edda Wind chooses Schottel propulsion

Four commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) being built by Fincantieri-owned Vard Group for Haugesund-based Edda Wind are to have propulsion packages provided by Germany’s Schottel. Each vessel will have two Schottel Dynamic…

26.07.2023

Shipping

UAE and DNV to set up Maritime Decarbonization Centre

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Foundation Det Norske Veritas (DNV) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on establishing a new UAE Maritime Decarbonization Centre by the beginning of next year. The MoU was signed by H.E.…

25.07.2023

Shipbuilding

Meyer Werft delivers Silver Nova to Silversea Cruises

Meyer Werft has delivered the 728-passenger cruise vessel, Silver Nova, to Monaco-based Silversea Cruises, a Royal Caribbean Group subsidiary. The handover of the 243m-long cruise vessel took place in Eemshaven and follows extensive tests of the…

24.07.2023

Shipbuilding

WinGD expects first ammonia-fuelled engines by 2025

Swiss engine company WinGD has revealed that it is ‘on track’ to supply the first X-DF-A dual-fuel ammonia engines in the first three months of 2025, with the first ships powered by these engines commissioned in 2026. The announcement follows…

24.07.2023

Shipbuilding

Finnlines takes delivery of hybrid RoPax

China Merchants Jinling Shipyard has handed over the first of two ice-class RoPax ferries, Finnsirius, to Helsinki-based Finnlines. Together with its sister ship, Finncanopus, due for delivery by the end of this year, the vessel will operate on the…

21.07.2023

Companies & People

IMO elects new Secretary-General

Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco from the Republic of Panama has been elected as the new Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for a four-year term starting on January 1, 2024. The election is subject to approval by the…

21.07.2023

Shipping

Availability of green methanol a challenge, says report

Production of sustainable methanol needs to increase rapidly to avoid availability issues and high prices, according to a report just released by Lloyd’s Register (LR). The technology is well-established, the Fuel for Thought: Methanol report says,…

18.07.2023

Operation

Berlin Express receives LNG bunkers in China

Hapag-Lloyd’s new 24,000-TEU dual-fuel container ship, Berlin Express, has taken delivery of 6,000 m3 of bonded LNG bunkers in China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port. In a fuelling operation that lasted 20 hours, the ultra-large container ship is only the…

17.07.2023

Shipbuilding

Ammonia combustion test successfully completed

MAN Energy Solutions has revealed the first successful tests of an engine operating on ammonia at its Research Centre Copenhagen (RCC). The combustion was carried out using a MAN B&W two-stroke 4T50ME-X engine with what the company described as…

14.07.2023

Shipbuilding

Fibre optic condition monitoring for LNG carriers

Two separate consortia with a total of eight LNG carriers under construction at China State Shipbuilding Corporation subsidiary Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for Qatar’s North Field project, have chosen fibre optic hull condition monitoring systems…

13.07.2023

Shipbuilding

Cooperation on methanol-powered tugs for Canada

Kotug Canada, Robert Allan Ltd, and Sanmar are to cooperate on the construction of two dual-fuel methanol tugs to escort tankers from Port Vancouver’s harbour limits to the Pacific Ocean through the commercial shipping lanes of the Salish Sea. The…

13.07.2023

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