The construction of MSC Group’s six-ship Explora Journeys’ fleet is proceeding at pace with three key events marked simultaneously at Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente shipyard in Genoa. They were the launching of the Explora III, the third ship in the…

The hull of the cable-laying vessel, Nexans Electra, has arrived at Ulstein Verft in Norway following a voyage from the Crist shipyard in Poland. The outfitting and completion of the complex vessel has now begun in the yard’s under-cover dock hall in…

Electrification and automation specialist, ABB, has signed a 15-year fleet service agreement with Royal Caribbean Group covering maintenance for 33 of the cruise company’s 67 ships. ABB will provide preventive maintenance and digital systems to…

China Merchants Group subsidiary, Deltamarin, has released details of a study into a 3,500 TEU container feeder design that will use ammonia as fuel.

Key aspects of the development work have included issues such as tank capacity and safety issues.…

A new subsidiary of Turkey-based Karpowership, Kinetics, has confirmed an option for a fourth FSRU conversion to be carried out at Seatrium in Singapore. The project is an option attached to a three-conversion FSRU contract awarded by Karpowership.…

The UK’s BAE Systems, a specialist in naval ship design, construction, conversion, and repair, has opened a new ship construction hall at one of its shipyards in Glasgow.

Named after a leading industrial figure from the last century, Janet Harvey,…