Heerema lands three decom projects in UK North Sea
Heerema Marine Contractors, in a consortium with AF Offshore Decom, will remove three platforms in the UK North Sea. The three platforms have a combined weight of more than 120,000 tonnes. An unnamed North Sea operator awarded the three engineering, preparation,...
Regulations drive business case for wind propulsion
Wind propulsion offers a viable option for decarbonisation in shipping, but further work is needed to adapt charter party agreements to its use, says NorthStandard. This article has been supplied by NorthStandard. FuelEU Maritime comes into force in January 2025 and...
Rotterdam-Singapore Green Corridor trials bio-methane bunkering
The Rotterdam-Singapore Green and Digital Shipping Corridor (GDSC) partners have conducted a pilot for the bunkering of mass-balanced liquefied bio-methane at the Port of Rotterdam. A total of 100 tonnes of LBM was supplied by Shell to CMA CGM’s LNG-powered container...
Westinghouse and Core Power partner on floating nuclear power plants
Westinghouse Electric Company and Core Power have formalised a cooperative agreement for the design and development of a floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). The FNPP will make use of the eVinci microreactor. FNPPs are a game-changing approach to deploying nuclear...
Archaeologists find remains of 1573 IJ shipping blockade
Remains of the shipping blockade from the Eighty Years' War in the IJ of 1573 have been found. At the time, shipwrecks were used to block access to the IJ. After the 2023 campaign, which revealed no traces of the blockade, specialists decided to make one more search...
Damen delivers Europe’s first fully electric tug
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered six RSD Tugs 2513 to the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium. The delivery consists of five RSD Tugs 2513 and one RSD-E Tug 2513 – the first fully electric tug to operate in a European port. With its fully electric propulsion, the...
Hapag-Lloyd signs green methanol offtake deal
Hapag-Lloyd has reached an agreement with Goldwind, a global strategic partner in clean energy with headquarters in Beijing, China, for the delivery of 250,000 tonnes of green methanol per year. The green methanol will consist of a blend of bio- and e-methanol,...
Huisman bags fourth Knuckle Boom Crane order of 2024
Huisman will deliver two 250-mt Knuckle Boom Cranes, to be installed on the new ST-245-designed offshore energy support vessels of Sea1 Offshore, a Norwegian shipping company. The contract was signed with COSCO (Qidong) Offshore Co., Ltd. The cranes will feature...
U-Ming orders Anemoi Rotor Sails for VLOC
Taiwan-based U-Ming Marine Transport has contracted Anemoi Marine Technologies for four Rotor Sails to be installed on one of U-Ming's 325,000-DWT very large ore carriers (VLOCs). The installation work is expected to be completed at the end of 2025. Fuel and emission...
Confined space gas test on ship using live chickens fails
A new Nautical Institute Mars Report highlights that the lack of training for crew on enclosed space rescue endures. On a general cargo vessel, chickens were used for gas testing and a subsequent rescue operation resulted in two fatalities. The Nautical Institute...
UK and US to speed up nuclear tech for industry
The United Kingdom and United States have joined forces at COP29 to speed up the deployment of cutting-edge nuclear technology to help decarbonise industry and boost energy security. The cooperation aims to support information-sharing on advanced nuclear technologies...
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