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Ship&Offshore
16.08.2023
Ship Operation

NSB Group chooses Telemar comms package

Buxtehude-based Niederelbe Schiffahrtsgesellschaft (NSB Group) is to use a Telemar communications package to support maintenance and compliance requirements on board half of its managed vessels. NSB currently has about 50 vessels under management and…

Ship&Offshore
15.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Abeking & Rasmussen launches its largest-ever yacht

North German shipbuilder, Abeking & Rasmussen, has launched a new superyacht, the 118.2m-long Liva°. Its sleek black hull stands as a symbol of sophistication and elegance on the water, the shipbuilder declared.

Its diesel-electric propulsion,…

Ship&Offshore
15.08.2023
Ship Operation

Shipowning: Greeks slip to second position behind China

After ten years in the lead, Greek owners have slipped into second place behind China in the global shipowning league table. Measured in gross tons (gt), the two countries are almost equal but China leads with 249.2 million gt against Greece’s 249.0…

Ship&Offshore
14.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Ammonia fuel supply system awarded AiP

An ammonia fuel supply system developed by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has been awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) by ClassNK. This means that SHI’s conceptual design, which has been developed based on part C of ClassNK’s ‘Guidelines for Ships…

Ship&Offshore
14.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Electric short-sea cargo ships ordered in China

Netherlands-based ÈTA Shipping and Mercuria, a Cypriot-domiciled Swiss energy and commodity trader, have joined forces to order six, option ten, short-sea general cargo vessels at Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co. Ltd. in China.

The 7,400dwt ÈTA…

Ship&Offshore
10.08.2023
Offshore

Damen delivers flexible Multi Cat in record time

Damen has delivered a Multi Cat 1908 SD to energy infrastructure company, Bohlen & Doyen Bau GmbH, just one month after contract signing. The 19.4m-long Scholle will fulfil a wide variety of support tasks in Germany’s coastal waters for transmission…

Ship&Offshore
08.08.2023
Offshore

Les Alizés starts first assignment in German North Sea

Jan De Nul’s latest heavy-lift vessel, Les Alizés, has begun installation work on the first of 107 monopile foundations for the construction of Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farms in German waters.

The vessel, built at the China…

Ship&Offshore
07.08.2023
Operation

OceanScore completes successful seed funding round

Hamburg-based OceanScore, a technology developer and data provider in the maritime field, has completed a successful funding process that has raised capital from investors including MSC, P. Döhle, the Schoeller family, TecPier and Israel’s theDOCK.

Ship&Offshore
07.08.2023
Operation

CAPTN project takes major step forward

The commissioning of a Shore Control Centre at Anschütz will now enable the real-time tracking of research platform MV Wavelab as part of the Clean Autonomous Public Transportation Network (CAPTN) project on the Kiel Fjord.

The CAPTN initiative aims…

Ship&Offshore
04.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Deltamarin clinches series of PCTC design deals

Deltamarin has won a series of ship design contracts for pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) from three separate shipowning groups. Up to 16 vessels could now be built to the company’s designs, all of them in Chinese shipyards.

China’s largest…