China Merchants Jinling Shipyard has handed over the first of two ice-class RoPax ferries, Finnsirius, to Helsinki-based Finnlines. Together with its sister ship, Finncanopus, due for delivery by the end of this year, the vessel will operate on the…

Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco from the Republic of Panama has been elected as the new Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for a four-year term starting on January 1, 2024. The election is subject to approval by the…

Hapag-Lloyd’s new 24,000-TEU dual-fuel container ship, Berlin Express, has taken delivery of 6,000 m3 of bonded LNG bunkers in China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port. In a fuelling operation that lasted 20 hours, the ultra-large container ship is only the…

MAN Energy Solutions has revealed the first successful tests of an engine operating on ammonia at its Research Centre Copenhagen (RCC). The combustion was carried out using a MAN B&W two-stroke 4T50ME-X engine with what the company described as…

Two separate consortia with a total of eight LNG carriers under construction at China State Shipbuilding Corporation subsidiary Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for Qatar’s North Field project, have chosen fibre optic hull condition monitoring systems…

Kotug Canada, Robert Allan Ltd, and Sanmar are to cooperate on the construction of two dual-fuel methanol tugs to escort tankers from Port Vancouver’s harbour limits to the Pacific Ocean through the commercial shipping lanes of the Salish Sea.

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A nano-epoxy silicone coating has been applied to Asyad Shipping’s 2014-built bulk carrier, Jabal Al Kawr, at the Group’s Duqm shipyard, Asyad Drydock, in Oman. The hull coating upgrade on board the 63,591dwt vessel is the second application at the…

In a move that some experts thought was unlikely, member states attending the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC 80) meeting in early July overcame their differences and adopted the 2023 IMO…