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2024 November 2

18:06

Singapore’s first fully electric cargo vessel wins Green Ship Award at SRS Forum

The Green Ship Award acknowledges ships and shipowners championing green and sustainable shipping practices

17:20

VTTI looks to buy into LNG terminals in Asia

VTTI counts Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Vitol as shareholders

16:48

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding signs contracts for 12 large container ships in the past 10 days

The customers of the vessels are COSCO SHIPPING Lines and Seaspan

16:32

CHIMBUSCO secures its first LNG refueling service in Europe

This marked the first time that CHIMBUSCO completed an LNG bunkering operation in Europe

15:46

SLB OneSubsea awarded subsea boosting contract for bp’s Kaskida project in Gulf of Mexico

The project scope includes a supplier-led, high-pressure subsea pump solution complete with an integrated power and controls umbilical, as well as associated topside equipment

15:24

Wilson Sons to start construction of three new eco-friendly tugboats in 2025

The three vessels are of the ASD 2312 class, with azimuth propulsion and a bollard pull of 70 tons

14:57

Rem Offshore holds keel laying ceremony for REM Pioneer

The vessel will be delivered in 2026 and will be the first of its kind that can perform heavy construction work in both offshore wind and subsea with net zero emissions

12:30

World's first conversion of large container ship to run on methanol successfully completed

Maersk plans additional retrofits across its fleet by 2027

11:52

New offshore platform taps into potential of heavy-oil reserves in China

The two-deck platform is 82 meters long and 42 meters wide, with a total deck area of over 3,000 square meters

11:24

HRDD completes desulphurization tower system conversion for a PCTC

The successful conversion of this vessel also provides a construction template for the conversion of desulfurization devices on subsequent ro-ro vessels of the same series

09:48

TOWT launches its first cargo sailing ship in Le Havre

TOWT has already commissioned two cargo sailing ships, Anemos and Artemis, and has announced the construction of a third ship, Atlantis

2024 November 1

18:00

Marlink to deploy Sealink NextGen hybrid solution on 26 tankers for Transpetro

The hybrid solution includes Marlink’s global VSAT integrated to the high throughput, low latency Starlink solution together with MSS as back-up

17:38

Austal Australia delivers 8th Evolved Cape-class Patrol Boat to Royal Australian Navy

The Evolved Capes feature new, larger amenities to accommodate up to 32 people, improved quality of life systems and advanced sustainment intelligence systems

17:23

Acteon and Applied Fiber enter MoU to collaborate on mooring solutions

The companies agree to jointly explore developing optimised mooring solutions using Applied Fiber’s socketed termination technology for fibre ropes

16:54

KOTUG International and Maritalia S.A. secure major marine services contract for bp’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim gas project

KOTUG will deploy four RAstar 32m azimuthing stern drive, IMO Tier-III compliant tugboats

16:24

BW LPG takes delivery of vessel BW Chinook from Avance Gas

BW LPG has today issued 1,350,000 new BW LPG shares to Avance Gas as part-consideration for the above vessel

15:44

HD Hyundai may nearly double shipbuilding capacity in Vietnam

The company aims to improve the production efficiency of its subsidiary HD Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding instead of adding more docks

15:24

Samsung Heavy Industries secures $390 mln contract for four Suezmax tankers

The Suezmax tankers, which represent the largest ships capable of transiting the Suez Canal, are scheduled for delivery by December 2027

14:36

EU imposes duties on unfairly subsidised electric vehicles from China

The investigation found that the BEV value chain in China benefits from unfair subsidization which is causing threat of economic injury to EU producers of BEVs

14:23

Port of Montreal workers at two terminals start new strike

The Maritime Employers Association called on federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon to intervene to bring parties back to the negotiating table

13:41

Chinese ports container volume rises 7.7 % from January to September of 2024

From January to September of 2024, the container throughput of Chinese ports was 248.5 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%

13:22

MOL, COSCO Co-host 6th Shanghai International LNG Shipping Forum

The theme of the forum was "Safety and Development of the LNG Industry Chain and Supply Chain"