Watertaxi Rotterdam (WTR) has replaced various antifouling coatings on its fast river craft with Ecospeed and monthly hull-cleaning. Limited by local law in terms of the type of coatings the company can choose, WTR applied Ecospeed after attempting…

Value Maritime says it will develop a new ‘innovative compact and modular’ onboard carbon capture system (OCCS) for installation aboard the LNG carrier Samskip Kvitbjorn, in collaboration with the Maritime Efficient & Easy Carbon Capture (ME2CC)…

Following an agreement to have naval vessels repaired at Hanwha Ocean in August 2024, US President-elect Donald Trump has signalled that the US could break with the Jones Act to have vessels constructed and maintained in South Korea, potentially…

Talks continue over the construction of four new Russian Icebreakers in Reliance Naval and Engineering (RNEL) Pipavav and Cochin shipyards (CSL), India, in an agreement which could, bizarrely, put them close to US Naval vessels being dry-docked…

Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (ASRY) has signed an agreement to maintain the Arab Maritime Petroleum Transport Company (AMPTC) fleet of tankers.

Headquartered in Kuwait, APMTC was established in 1972 by members of the Organisation of…

While storm-damaged bulk carrier M/V Ruby is repaired at the A&P Group Tyne’s Drydock No.1, the remainder of its 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate cargo has been offloaded in The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, bringing a months-long saga to a close.

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UW Group has boosted its executive team with the hiring of Vassilios Demetriades as its chief strategy officer. The Cyrus-based group, with subsidiary offices in Greece, Russia, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates, provides a broad range of…

New facilities at Drydocks World’s South Yard will boost total yard capacity by a quarter and fabrication capacity by 40%, enabling more new construction, repair, upgrades and conversions to be completed simultaneously. The 75,000m2 facility now has…