Wärtsilä spark gas conversion targets methane slip
Wärtsilä has completed the conversion of the engine on three LNG carriers from dual-fuel (DF) to spark gas (SG) operation. Chevron Transport Corporation operates the vessels. This conversion aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions from the vessels by reducing methane...
Boluda Towage takes over Muller Dordrecht
Boluda Towage is expanding its offshore towage capabilities with the acquisition of Muller Dordrecht. The latter is a Dutch maritime services company with more than a century of experience in offshore towage, heavy transport and specialised marine projects. The...
Saipem7 approved, heavy-transport business for sale
Subsea 7 has announced that the tribunal of Brazil’s Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE) has approved the proposed combination of Subsea7 and Saipem to create Saipem7. At the same time, the company plans to sell its heavy transportation business, part...
Alewijnse wins contract for world’s largest sailing cargo ships
Alewijnse has signed a contract with French shipbuilder Piriou to deliver the electrical system integration on board four more new sail cargo vessels with hybrid propulsion. The Phenix class has been developed by shipping company TransOceanic Wind Transport (NEWTOWT)....
ECTMarine delivers workboat built for Dead Sea conditions
Dutch marine engineering company ECTMarine has handed over a purpose-built workboat to Arab Potash Company (APC) in Jordan. Designed and built in the Netherlands, the workboat was tailored to the conditions at the Dead Sea, where the dense, highly saline brine and the...
Equinor opens Marine Robotics Centre in Norway
On 28 October, the K-lab Marine Robotics Centre (KNARR) opened, a new facility dedicated to the testing, qualification and development of marine robotic technologies. The centre, located at Equinor's processing plant at Kårstø in Tysvær, will be used for testing,...
Construction of KNRM’s largest lifeboat kicks off
Construction of the the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution's (KNRM) new generation of large lifeboats began in Makkum on 31 October with the keel-laying of the Prins Johan Friso. It is the first of thirteen new vessels, each more than 19 metres long, that will...
Damen builds response/SAR vessel for Lithuanian Navy
Damen Shipyards has signed a contract with the Lithuanian Navy for an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) 6711-based pollution response and Search and Rescue (SAR) vessel. It will replace an existing unit and strengthen the country’s emergency response capabilities at sea....
First ship of new Conoship CIP6300 design launched
The first Conoship International CIP6300 vessel, Wilson Energy I, was launched at Udupi Cochin Shipyard in India on 26 October. It is the first larger ship in a fourteen-vessel programme, following the delivery of six CIP3800 vessels. Norwegian operator Wilson ASA...
Casper Versteylen presented with Maritime Talent Award
According to the jury, Casper Versteylen is bringing the energy transition in the shipping industry a step closer by combining materials science expertise with practical experiments. He won the Maritime Talent Award for his efforts. Among other things, he is...
SensoriumC-Onboard lands Maritime Innovation Award
Container loss at sea is an urgent and systemic problem. SensoriumC-Onboard helps to reduce this risk by providing the captain on board with better information. Company GBMS won the Maritime Innovation Award for this invention last night at the Maritime Awards Gala....
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