Netherlands-based Econowind has launched a new version of its steel suction wing system aimed at larger vessels in ocean trades. The new 5-series Ventofoil is a 30-m version of the company’s smaller 3-series suction wings which are available in 10-m…

Antwerp-based Exmar has named what it calls the world’s first two ammonia dual-fuel mid-sized gas carriers. The 46,000-m3 Antwerpen and Arlon have been developed jointly with HD Hyundai in a project that has taken more than 40 months. The resulting…

A fast hybrid catamaran to be built by Australia’s Austal Limited is to have a battery system supplied by Echandia, a Swedish manufacturer of batteries for the shipping industry. The Gotland Horizon X, ordered by Visby-based Gotlandsbolaget, will be…

Belgium’s Jan De Nul has launched the cable-layer William Thomson at CMHI Haimen shipyard in China. The vessel is the second in a pair of cable-layers and follows launch of the Fleeming Jenkin last October. The two cable-layers are said to be the…