RINA unveils Mermaid, a future-ready ship design
RINA is introducing Mermaid, a future-ready propulsion concept designed to reduce fuel consumption and emissions while improving operational resilience. The flexible system is intended to help shipowners adapt as the maritime industry’s decarbonisation pathway...
Van Oord wins another cable contract in Taiwan
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has contracted Van Oord to install inter-array cables for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. It involves the transport, installation and burial of the 33 inter-array cables, with a total length of approximately 64...
Fugro to supply metocean monitoring buoys to Italy
Gathering real-time information is increasingly important to protect coastal communities. Therefore, the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) has awarded Fugro a contract to deliver an offshore wave and current measurement network (rete...
UniBallast launches containerised filterless BWTS
American Scienco/FAST and Dutch UniBallast have launched the portable InTankFITT Container. This is a containerised version of the Scienco/FAST's revolutionary filterless ballast water treatment system (BWTS), InTank. Designed to address the growing regulatory and...
Navarino Group acquires Castor Marine
The Navarino Group has acquired all shares of Castor Marine BV. Castor Marine is a Dutch shipping and yachting internet connectivity and IT solutions provider. UK-based Navarino Group offers complete hardware, software and connectivity solutions for the maritime...
47 governments propose GHG emissions pricing to IMO
In a joint submission to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), 47 governments from all over the world, with shipping industry support, ask for a maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pricing mechanism for international shipping to be adopted. The joint...
Maritime Master Plan funding for carbon capture on LNG vessel
Value Maritime and its partners in the Maritime Efficient & Easy Carbon Capture (ME2CC) project have won funding from the Maritime Master Plan 2024. The funding will contribute to the development, construction and demonstration of a first-in-kind compact, modular...
VIDEO: NATO tests underwater sensors to protect CUI
During Exercise Bold Machina 24, NATO Special Forces divers tested underwater sensors that may be used to protect critical underwater infrastructure (CUI) in the future. Dive teams from thirteen nations participated in the exercise. The exercise was held in La Spezia,...
‘Container ship order book hits new record high of 8.3m TEU’
The container ship order book keeps smashing record after record. In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Niels Rasmussen, Chief Shipping Analyst, states the order book reached 8.3 million TEU, up from the previous record of 7.8 million TEU in early...
Damen to build 1000-m3 hopper dredger for New Zealand port
Damen Shipyards Group and Port Otago with partner Napier Port have signed a contract for the delivery of a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) 1000. At nearly 60 metres in length, this standard Damen design has a maximum hopper volume of 1000 m3. Damen and the two...
HNLMS Luymes flagship for NATO Mine Countermeasures Group
The hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Luymes is the flagship of the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 for the next four months. This is one of two permanent NATO fleet deployments consisting of mine countermeasures vessels. One of its main tasks is clearing...
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