Norway’s Fincantieri-owned Vard has won a contract for two commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs), with an option for a third ship, from an unnamed international client.

The CSOVs’ design has been developed by Vard Design in Ålesund and has…

An ammonia-fuelled X-DF-A two-stroke marine engine developed by Switzerland-based WinGD has been delivered and installed on the first of a series of four LPG/ammonia carriers being built for Belgian shipowner, Exmar. The 46,000m3 vessel will be the…

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…