Ship Repair
01.07.2024
Ship Repair

Busy end of Sweden’s Öresund DryDock at the end of June

The last week of June was a busy one for Swedish ship repairer Öresund DryDocks AB in the port of Landskrona, with a total of three vessels undergoing repair. The vessels were as follows:

Atle – 7,457 gt 1974-built icebreaker, owned by Sweden’s…

Ship Repair
01.07.2024
Ship Repair

China’s Zhoushan Pacific Ocean Engineering Co., Ltd. completes conversion of feeder container ship Eco Umande to methanol power

Singapore-based X-Press Feeders took delivery towards the end of June of another landmark vessel in shipping’s fuel transition - the first methanol dual fuel retrofit. The 1,170 TEU-capacity Eco Umande, delivered by China’s New Dayang Shipbuilding…

Ship Repair
01.07.2024
Ship Repair

The refit of the US Navy’s aircraft carrier, USS John C. Stennis, will take over five years to complete

The mid-life overhaul and refuelling of the US Navy’s Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia will now take about five and a half years to complete – an extra 14 months than…

Ship Repair
01.07.2024
Ship Repair

Wärtsilä to upgrade four MR chemical tankers owned by International Seaways

Leading marine technology group Wärtsilä is to supply its EnergoFlow and EnergoProFin propulsion systems to four Medium-Range (MR) chemical tankers owned and operated by New York-based International Seaways. The devices will be used to upgrade the…