The third in a series of six cruise vessels under construction for MSC Group’s luxury brand, Explora Journeys, has been delivered at Fincantiere’s Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa. Explora III has capacity for about 920 passengers and is the first in the…

Fincantieri subsidiary, Vard, has won a contract from the UK’s Trinity House for two multi-function Buoy and Lighthouse maintenance vessels, the first of their kind. The deal is worth more than EUR 220 million.

The two vessels will replace the…

The 45m-long freight vessel, Menawethan, was christened earlier this month and has now entered service for the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group (ISSG) on the route between Penzance in Cornwall and Scilly Isles’ capital, Hugh Town, on St Mary’s island.…

Econowind’s VentoFoil 3-Series boundary layer suction wings have been issued with a Type Approval Design Certificate (TSDC) by DNV. The document confirms compliance with the classification society’s ST-0511 standard for Wind Assisted Propulsion…