Engine firm WinGD has signed an agreement with South Korean shipping technology company, Panasia, to install emissions abatement and fuel efficiency systems on existing X-DF engines. The first X-DF engines were introduced almost ten years ago, and…

Stena Line has named its lates fleet addition in Belfast. The 147m-long hybrid freight ferry, Stena Futura, is the first of two ‘NewMax’ vessels purpose-built for the Belfast-Heysham route. The dual-fuel methanol-ready ship has a 9-MW battery system,…

German marine engineering company, Schottel, has won an order from Scotland’s Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) for a series of seven rudder-propeller systems for double-ended electric ferries to be built at Remontowa Shipbuilding in Poland. …

The tenth and final 7,680dwt bulk carrier in the Labrax series has been launched and named at Royal T Shipyards, formerly Thecla Bodewes, in the Netherlands. Built for the Vertom group, a short-sea operator with more than a hundred vessels, the…