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 Silversteam systems. With capacity for more than…

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 transport and install the latest foundation modules and…

Watertaxi Rotterdam (WTR) has replaced various antifouling coatings on its fast river craft with Ecospeed and monthly hull-cleaning. Limited by local law in terms of the type of coatings the company can choose, WTR applied Ecospeed after attempting various other technologies.

Rather than relying on…

Value Maritime says it will develop a new ‘innovative compact and modular’ onboard carbon capture system (OCCS) for installation aboard the LNG carrier Samskip Kvitbjorn, in collaboration with the Maritime Efficient & Easy Carbon Capture (ME2CC) project.

Value Maritime has installed its ‘Filtree’…

Following an agreement to have naval vessels repaired at Hanwha Ocean in August 2024, US President-elect Donald Trump has signalled that the US could break with the Jones Act to have vessels constructed and maintained in South Korea, potentially taking work away from the US’ dwindling number of…

Talks continue over the construction of four new Russian Icebreakers in Reliance Naval and Engineering (RNEL) Pipavav and Cochin shipyards (CSL), India, in an agreement which could, bizarrely, put them close to US Naval vessels being dry-docked there.

The vessels will be deployed on the Northern Sea…

Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (ASRY) has signed an agreement to maintain the Arab Maritime Petroleum Transport Company (AMPTC) fleet of tankers.

Headquartered in Kuwait, APMTC was established in 1972 by members of the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), and…

While storm-damaged bulk carrier M/V Ruby is repaired at the A&P Group Tyne’s Drydock No.1, the remainder of its 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate cargo has been offloaded in The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, bringing a months-long saga to a close.

Some 300 tonnes of the cargo had been dumped off the…

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 Diesel^TM,, sourced from the Vopak Penjuru Terminal, was supplied by the Global Energy-operated bunker barge, Mapl…

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 implemented its first EcoTow operation, a proprietary…

A Norwegian-led partnership, NuProShip, is examining the scope for nuclear propulsion in shipping. Funded by the Research Council of Norway, the project is being supported by the Norwegian subsidiary of Fincantieri, Vard, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Ålesund, DNV, the…