London-based engineering consultancy, Houlder, is to assist in system integration and subsequent performance monitoring of a Winds of Change wing sail installation led by Smart Green Shipping (SGS). The project involves the retrofit of a SGS FastRig…

The technology group Wärtsilä announced that it has received its first order for carbon capture and storage (CCS)-ready scrubber systems. Four 8,200 TEU container vessels, being built at an undisclosed Asian shipyard, are to be fitted with Wärtsilä’s…

Spanish offshore wind developer, X1 Wind, has announced that its X30 floating wind prototype has produced its first electricity in the Canary Islands.

The power was supplied to the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), a techno-scientific…

Hong Kong-based Pacific Gas has ordered cargo handling and fuel supply systems from technology group Wärtsilä for four very large ethane carriers (VLECs) currently under construction at Jiangnan Shipyard in China.

The VLECs, which are designed…

Keppel’s Singapore shipyard has started work on the conversion of GasLog’s 155,000m3 LNG carrier, GasLog Chelsea. The converted vessel will become Greece’s first floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in the Aegean Sea.

The tri-fuel…

The Norwegian ferry firm, Torghatten Nord, has ordered hydrogen fuel cells from PowerCell Sweden for two ferries that will operate on the country’s longest ferry route in the north, across the Vestfjorden between Lofoten and Bodø.

PowerCell will…

Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has laid the keel of a new RoRo vessel, SeaRoad1, for Tasmania-based shipowner, SeaRoad. The order is worth more than EUR 100 million.

The 210m-long freight ferry, the largest in SeaRoad’s history, will be…

Germany’s DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH has taken over the entire Anschütz group known previously as Raytheon Anschütz and a subsidiary of the US defence company Raytheon. The change of ownership includes all existing rights and…

Classification society DNV and partners have launched a new JIP, called EMRED. The JIP aims to establish a monitoring and reporting framework for assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the offshore wind installation sector. The partners comprise…