While many of the world’s shipowners are now giving the Red Sea and the Suez Canal a wide berth after increasing missile drone attacks, particularly on US and British-owned vessels, by Houthi rebels in Yemen, one company that hopes to make increased…

Estonia-based Baltic ship repair group BLRT ended 2023 on a high and has started the new year well at its three shipyards in Estonia (Tallinn Shipyard), Finland (Turku Repair Yard) and in Klaipeda, Lithuania (Western Shiprepair).

On January 25th,…

Leading cruise ship operator Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) has entered into a service partnership agreement with marine propulsion specialist ABB to accelerate the decarbonisation and digitalisation of its cruise vessel fleet. NCLH operates…

During Brittany Ferries flagship Pont-Aven’s drydocking at Poland’s Remontowa Shiprepair in Gdansk, between November 2023 and January 2024, the RoPax ferry was fitted with a duck tail on her stern to improve fuel efficiency, thereby increasing the…