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Svitzer orders battery-powered tug

Copenhagen-based towage company, Svitzer, has ordered another battery-powered tug to be built by Sanmar Shipyard and deployed in the Øresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden. With a capacity of 1,818 Mwh and a 70-tonne bollard pull, the 52m-long…

Shipbuilding

Rescue bids roll in for German yards in crisis

Germany’s crisis-hit FSG-Nobiskrug shipyards, which filed for insolvency during the second week of December, could be rescued from collapse by industry-related German companies, the provisional insolvency administrators announced last week. Just…

15.01.2025

James Fisher orders four more tankers

London-listed James Fisher and Sons plc has ordered four new 6,106dwt chemical tankers at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Yangzhou) Dingheng Co Ltd. Steel-cutting took place in November.

The new vessels will have LNG dual-fuel propulsion systems…

13.01.2025

Offshore

Van Oord takes delivery of Boreas

Rotterdam-based offshore construction company, Van Oord, has taken delivery of the offshore installation vessel, Boreas, at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore in China. Named after the Greek God of the northern winds, the vessel has been designed to…

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Ship Operation

DNV: biofuel supply a potential constraint

Although biofuels such as fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) have significant potential for supporting ship’s decarbonisation drive, classification society, DNV, warns that their uptake in the future could be hampered…

14.01.2025

Shipbuilding

Carnival to install more Silverstream systems

Carnival Corporation & plc is to install air lubrication systems from Silverstream on two more cruise ships, taking the total number in the Carnival fleet to 16. The vessels will be the third and fourth 180,000-gt ships in the Excel class to have…

09.01.2025

Ship Operation

First delivery of renewable diesel

Marine fuels firm, KPI OceanConnect, and Neste, the Finnish oil company, have completed the first delivery of renewable diesel, HVO100, for the cruise industry in Singapore. MY Renewable DieselTM,, sourced from the Vopak Penjuru Terminal, was…

09.01.2025

Port Operation

Höegh and Svitzer adopt sustainable port calls

Towage company, Svitzer, and vehicle transporter, Höegh Autoliners, have cooperated in the development of an emissions-reducing procedure in towage operations in Australia. At the end of the Höegh Aurora’s maiden voyage to Australia, Svitzer…

New Ships - Prospects and Orders

EUROPE

French group in talks about big container ship orders

Brokers say French shipping group CMA CGM is in talks with yards in…

AFRICA

Egypt to build 12 deepseas fishing vessels

Egypt plans an order to build 12 deepsea fishing vessels. The plan was…

Order for new type of offshore oil and gas service vessel

Singapore yard ST Engineering said it has a contract for the design…

Two yards in talks about building Russian icebreakers

Indian yards Cochin Shipyard and Reliance Naval and Engineering are in…

Greek customer orders more product tankers

Brokers say Chinese yard New Times Shipbuilding has an order from…

Chemical tanker for European customer

China’s Wuhu Shipyard has an order from British shipping company…

New Ships - Inside Reports

South Korean yards expect more orders in 2025

South Korea’s shipbuilders, which have good order books, will…

Several groups interested in buying German naval yard

German industrial group Thyssenkrupp said it has received expressions…

US investigation finds China unfairly dominates shipbuilding

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has concluded that China…

Ship Repair

Damen and Fayard refute sanction-busting allegations

Both Damen and Fayard have refuted accusations of sanction-busting in the course of repairing Arc 7 icebreaking LNG carriers for use at the Russian Yamal LNG project.

An Financial Times article last week highlighted that the two yards are critical…

Harland & Wolff yards enter administration, Navantia takeover agreed

After a long period of uncertainty over their future, the four shipyards operated by Harland & Wolff -Belfast, Appledore, Methil and Arnish - are being placed into administration as part of the Navantia takeover deal, with the new owner not set to…

Gibdock Yachting targets superyacht refit market

Ship repair yard Gibdock has launched Gibdock Yachting, a new division dedicated to superyacht maintenance and refit services, as part of its efforts to expand in a growing market.

The new division will leverage Gibdock’s experience in servicing…

Middle-East yards could benefit as Houthis pledge to stop attacking non-Israeli vessels

Houthi pledges to end attacks on most ships will be a boon for Middle-East shipyards, some of which have seen a change in their patterns of bookings as a result of vessels steering clear of the region.

Noting a downward trend in the proportion of…

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