German companies, Elomatic Maritime Technologies GmbH and thyssenkrupp Marine Systems AG (TKMS) have signed a contract to design and build a new icebreaking polar research vessel. Polarstern 2 is to be built at the TKMS shipyard in Wismar and will…

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (Mitsui E&S) has embarked on tests of the world’s first commercial, two-stroke, dual-fuel ammonia engine. A prototype engine, the MAN B&W 7S60ME-LGIA Mk 10.5, has now begun its first test run at the Japanese…

Singapore-based Ocean Network Express (ONE) has named the first of five new 13,800-TEU container ships, ONE Sparkle, at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The vessel is the first newbuilding owned by the consortium which was established in 2017…

Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV) has signed a deal with Rossellini’s Four-10 to fit out the interior and exterior spaces of the research and expedition vessel, REV Ocean. The 194m-long vessel is intended to undertake research covering the entire…