Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding

ABB lands Azipod cruise contract

ABB has won a deal to provide Azipod® propulsion units for four cruise ships built by Fincantieri. The company will provide eight 7.7-MW Azipods for the medium-sized cruise vessels, due for delivery between 2024 and 2027. Azipod technology has a…

29.03.2023
Shipbuilding

WinGD supplies methanol engines for container ships

WinGD is to supply 10X92DF-M methanol-fuelled engines for four 16,000-TEU container ships ordered by Cosco Shipping Lines at Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry (Yangzhou) Co. Ltd. On delivery from 2025, the vessels will be the first in China to have…

28.03.2023
Shipbuilding

Damen develops new shrimp trawler design

Damen has revealed details of its newly configured Shrimp Trawler 2607. Incorporating various upgrades from the company's existing design, the new trawler has been developed for low fuel consumption.  Eric Moerkerk, managing director of Damen…

27.03.2023
Shipbuilding

Wärtsilä to deliver its first CCS-ready scrubber systems

The technology group Wärtsilä announced that it has received its first order for carbon capture and storage (CCS)-ready scrubber systems. Four 8,200 TEU container vessels, being built at an undisclosed Asian shipyard, are to be fitted with Wärtsilä’s…

09.03.2023
Shipbuilding

Pacific Gas orders Wärtsilä systems for VLECs

Hong Kong-based Pacific Gas has ordered cargo handling and fuel supply systems from technology group Wärtsilä for four very large ethane carriers (VLECs) currently under construction at Jiangnan Shipyard in China. The VLECs, which are designed…

07.03.2023
Shipbuilding

Norway’s Torghatten Nord opts for fuel cells

The Norwegian ferry firm, Torghatten Nord, has ordered hydrogen fuel cells from PowerCell Sweden for two ferries that will operate on the country’s longest ferry route in the north, across the Vestfjorden between Lofoten and Bodø. PowerCell will…

06.03.2023
Shipbuilding

FSG lays keel of new RoRo, SeaRoad1

Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has laid the keel of a new RoRo vessel, SeaRoad1, for Tasmania-based shipowner, SeaRoad. The order is worth more than EUR 100 million. The 210m-long freight ferry, the largest in SeaRoad’s history, will be…

02.03.2023

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