The construction of the first of ten 15,000 TEU LNG-fuelled “green” containerships chartered by the Israeli shipping company ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM) has begun. According to the company’s update, the steel cutting ceremony for the ZIM Sammy Ofer was held last month at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in South
Malaysian energy giant Petronas and the Sabah state government have launched the Sabah Gas Masterplan as a reference and a guide, which will enable them to embark on the journey towards further development of natural gas in this Malaysian state, located in the northern part of the island of Borneo.
Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has taken delivery into class the brand-new cruise ferry Salamanca, built at China Merchants Jinling in Weihai, China. Photo: BV Powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the 1,015-passenger ferry will be operated by Brittany Ferries on its route between Portsmouth, in the UK, and Bilbao
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has developed new “digital twins” of two platforms in the Dutch North Sea, which will help in its drive to repurpose existing facilities for a carbon capture and storage project. Neptune said on Thursday that its new digital twins will accelerate work schedules and
Vattenfall is working on a hydrogen demonstrator project named Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1), which involves installing hydrogen production equipment on one of the wind turbines at its Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in Scotland. The company has already submitted a couple of applications for pipeline route
Mohammedia Port near Casablanca will host the country’s first liquified natural gas (LNG) floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), according to The National Ports Agency (ANP). Casablanca Port; Illustration only; Courtesy of The National Ports Agency APN announced the update of station C at the Mohammedia port, which will now
The third and final dual-fuel LNG battery hybrid pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) has been launched in China for United European Car Carriers (UECC), a Norway-based provider of shortsea RoRo transportation. Photo: UECC The launching ceremony took place at Jiangnan Shipyard, part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) in
Maritime engineering company Conoship International Projects has developed an environmentally friendly diesel-electric propulsed 3600 dwt general cargo vessel, suited for sea-river operations. General cargo vessel with diesel-electric propulsion (Source: Conoship) The vessel, set to be considered the new standard for low-air draught sea-river coasters, marks the first series of six
Singapore-based project developer LNG Alliance has partnered up with Montenegro’s state-owned power firm EPCG to look into LNG and power projects and a dedicated LNG import terminal in the Port of Bar. Courtesy of Bar Cruise Port Specifically, EPCG signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with LNG Alliance on 8 December
South Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has placed another order with French containment specialist GTT for the tank design of a new LNG carrier. Illustration only; Courtesy of Business Wire GTT received the order at the end of December 2021. As part of this order, GTT will design the