Cyprus-based RoRo owner, Sallaum Lines, has signed up with Xiamen Shipbuilding in China for two, option two, 8,600-CEU pure car truck carriers (PCTCs). The vessels will be the shipowner’s largest so far.

With five liftable decks, the 200m-long PCTCs…

Fincantieri owned Vard has signed a deal with Norwegian fishing firm, Rosund Drift, for the design and building of a new stern trawler. The vessel, based on the shipbuilder’s Vard 8 02 design, is intended both for semi-pelagic and bottom-trawling…

BLRT Grupp has begun construction of a new floating dock for its Klaipėda-based ship repair yard, Western Shiprepair, in a move that will expand capacity and enable the facility to handle larger vessels, including Panamax ships.

The project reached…

DNV says the successful methanol conversion of the 20,000-TEU containership COSCO Shipping Libra demonstrates that meaningful decarbonisation of existing fleets is already technically achievable, following one of the largest low-carbon fuel retrofits…

China’s Zhoushan Xinya Ship Repair Co has completed what is believed to be the world's largest bulk carrier-to-containership conversion, transforming an 80,000-dwt Kamsarmax bulker into a 3,600-TEU containership following a six-month retrofit…

An EU-backed consortium has launched a EUR 4.17 million (USD 4.8 million) project to help shipowners cut emissions from existing vessels using artificial intelligence, reflecting growing recognition that fleet decarbonisation cannot rely solely on…