Jumbo Offshore has used its heavy-lift crane vessel, Jumbo Javelin, at the Yunlin wind farm off the Taiwanese coast in an installation project for Yunneng Wind Power Co Ltd. The DP2 vessel was equipped specially for the job, with a Jumbo Fly-Job modular crane boom extension to increase lifting…

New York-based software company, OrbitMI, claims that manual noon reporting is tedious and increasingly complex for ships’ crews, often leading to mistakes. Seafarers now have to create a range of reports for different stakeholders and the lack of a standard format increases the chance of errors.

“T…

Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded Approvals in Principle (AiP) to four new fuel vessel concepts developed by Chinese engineering and design firms. A 100,000m³ ethane carrier design, developed by the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute and the largest of its kind…

Cosco Shipping Development has signed an investment, construction and leasing agreement for 42 new bulk carriers at a total cost of just over USD 2 billion. A subsidiary of Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry will build 20 ships, while 22 other vessels will be built by CSSC Chengxi. In China’s own…

The willingness of Hapag-Lloyd’s shipper customers to participate in the biofuel insetting programme Ship Green is helping to provide financing for the company’s much-publicised retrofit drive, Fleet Manager Captain Silke Lehmkoester told Ship Repair Newsletter.

The option to scrap and renew the…

Höegh Autoliners is to upgrade ten pure car truck carriers (PCTC) with Kongsberg Maritime Promas Lite propulsion systems. The retrofits are projected to reduce fuel consumption and corresponding emissions by at least 6.5%.

The Promas Lite systems, developed specifically for retrofits, integrate the…

CM Technologies (CMT) is working with major shipowners to help them meet carbon reduction targets using its new cloud-based engine performance analysis tool. Leading operators in Europe, the US, and Singapore are trialling CMT’s PREMET Cloud platform to optimise the efficiency of their marine diesel…

Real-time connections are generating major benefits in raising operational efficiency across the global merchant fleet but the ship repair business still works on a reactive maintenance model, says ship repair executive Arran Dall. Speaking at a ship repair seminar organised by DVV Media at SMM last…

Dr Santiago Suarez De La Fuente, Ship Performance Manager at Lloyd’s Register, warned a DVV Media Decarbonisation panel at SMM last week that just 17 shipyards in the world have the technical expertise to retrofit sails on vessels, and even fewer – around 16 – were proficient in fuel engine…

With shipyards fully booked until several years in advance, shipowners must invest to make efficiency retrofits on existing tonnage, in the hope of bringing up their fuel efficiency in line with IMO and EU commitments, Ship Repair Newsletter heard this week.

Cristina Aleixendri Muñoz, co-founder of…