News 2026 September 3

Wärtsilä renews Global Mercy deal and adds Africa Mercy II

Deltamarin and Offshoretronic unveil 179-metre jackup for monopiles over 3,000 tonnes

700kN thrust model for Chinese SunRui suction sails wins Lloyd’s Register validation

1,500 truckers halt container moves at India’s Mundra port over Adani empty-box rule

CMA CGM’s intra-Asia liner CNC switches bunker surcharge benchmark to VLSFO

Deltamarin and Toepfer Transport unveil 17,000-dwt MPP fit for Great Lakes

REM Offshore’s methanol-ready newbuild wins 2026 Ship of the year at SMM in Hamburg

German eCap wins hydrogen deal for two 3,000-dwt Norwegian coastal bulkers

Dutch battery supplier EST-Floattech lands 9.7-MWh order for 15 European river cruise ships

Bureau Veritas approves Finnish-Chinese 40,000-dwt MR1 tanker design

MARIC wins Lloyd’s Register approval in principle for tanker convertible to LNG, methanol or ammonia

US terminal operator Enstructure buys Canadian Logistec marine arm to create 106-terminal network

Norwegian cruise operator SeaDream taps Chinese yard for first newbuild in 25 years

Huangpu Wenchong wins LR approval in principle for 12,500-cbm LNG bunker vessel

Swedish engineer AFRY wins offshore role on Vietnam’s $2.69bn LNG-to-power project

Georgia to let ships with 10-plus crew sail for a month without qualified cook

Singapore warns shipowners of enforcement over false vessel identities and ownership data

CSSC Shipping orders 10 grain bulkers in $482m newbuilding deal

US-based Dorian LPG linked to $349m VLGC trio at Hanwha Ocean

Damen unveils methanol-ready 1,100-TEU hybrid feeder

Asian port congestion triggers sharpest global boxship reliability fall since 2021

48-hour dock strike hits container operations at Hamburg, Bremerhaven and four other German ports

Norway arrests Russian state research ship Professor Molchanov in Svalbard over $4.22bn Naftogaz award

Tugboats join Dutch port strike as ship handling set to stop in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Zeeland

South Korean tug TNS Catcher capsizes off Busan, killing one and leaving six missing

Yang Ming orders six LNG boxships from Hanwha Ocean for $1.14bn

Erdogan calls for permanent Black Sea shipping safety mechanism after attacks on Turkish-operated ships