Wärtsilä is to supply electric propulsion systems for three battery-electric high-speed ferries that will operate in the San Francisco Bay area. The order, booked by Wärtsilä in the first quarter of this year, was placed by Bellingham-based…

Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled a new range of modular tunnel thrusters suitable for a wide range of ship types. The TTH series has a various benefits including a compact design that can be easily integrated with ships’ hulls, a core module that…

Swiss-based engine builder, WinGD, is to provide six-cylinder X-S short-stroke engines for two container feeders to be built at HD Hyundai Mipo. The ships have been ordered by X-Press Feeders which has chosen the engines for their good fuel economy,…

China Merchants subsidiary, Deltamarin, has won a contract from the group’s Weihai Shipyard for the design of three RoPax vessels for Finnlines which will deploy them on routes in the Baltic Sea.

The new 240m-long Hansa Superstar class vessels will…

The day before the current issue of Ship&Offshore went to press, I had the honour of boarding the research vessel Polarstern in Bremenhaven. The icebreaker, which belongs to the German Federal Government, had just returned to its home port after a…

MAN Energy Solutions is to lead a new project, ‘NH3 Spark – FutureFlex’, that aims to develop a small-bore engine capable of running on ammonia without the need for pilot fuel.

Denmark’s Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Progamme, a…

MSC Cruises has ordered two more LNG-powered World Class vessels at Chantiers de l’Atlantique. The deal, signed at the Hôtel des Minstres in Paris, takes the Geneva-headquartered cruise line’s tally of World Class vessels at the shipyard to six. They…

MAN Energy Solutions has revealed that type approval tests (TATs) have been conducted successfully on a new engine intended for use as an auxiliary genset or electric propulsion at constant speed, respectively, of 720 and 750rpm. The TATs involved…