Econowind and Jumbo Maritime have collaborated on a recent installation The shipping industry is increasingly embracing wind-assisted ship propulsion technology, and most recently heavy lift shipping and offshore transport company Jumbo Maritime has joined the movement. Wind power technology supplier Econowind has installed two leased VentoFoil units on the heavy lift vessel Jumbo Jubilee in […]
Long-term shipowner agreements help secure a healthy future for the Singapore yard group’s repair and upgrade business sector Singapore-based Seatrium is enjoying a strong recovery in business fortunes, following its creation last year as a result of the merger of the Sembawang and Keppel shipyard businesses. Overall, the company achieved revenues of around S$4 billion […]
Package of optimisation measures leads to substantial efficiency gains on 868TEU Henneke Rambow “Right now there’s quite a few different things realigning in the industry. This means there’s quite a lot of movement happening with retrofitting from an energy and efficiency perspective,” reflects Jonas Nyberg, Berg Proplulsion’s managing director for advanced solutions. Like others, the […]
A new report from the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping outlines the opportunities and challenges relating to converting tankers to run on methanol or ammonia fuels Transitioning to climate-friendly alternative fuels is essential for the decarbonisation of the shipping industry. However, vessels being built or ordered today are likely to be operating […]
Existing firefighting methods and safety rules not ready for growing interest in methanol conversion projects, warns new study Methanol as a low-carbon fuel is an attractive choice for vessel owners and operators as they look to transition to net zero. Orders for methanol-fuelled newbuilds have increased 9% in the last 12 months, 2% more than […]
Babcock International Group PLC and the UK’s Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) have sealed a new agreement. The full cost recovery contract, worth approximately £560 million, is earmarked for the comprehensive maintenance and life extension program of HMS Victorious, one of the United Kingdom’s Vanguard Class nuclear submarines. The goal of this multi-year initiative is to […]
UK-based Newport Shipping has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Zhejiang Energy Marine Environmental Technology (ZEME) in China that aims to further broaden the company’s ability to offer environmental retrofit solutions to customers in the shipping industry. ZEME offers a range of environmental solutions including scrubbers, methanol fuel and alternative marine power (AMP) technology. […]
All the signs are that 2023 will be one of the best years for some time for Portuguese shiprepair yard Lisnave. Over the first nine months the company docked 55 vessels of varying types. This is not an exceptionally high figure. However, the average value of the work per vessel contracted by owners was significantly […]
Until the early 2000s refits were a secondary offering at Vlissingen-based Damen Yachting. While the company always reserved space in the shipyard for returning yachts, it wasn’t until the building boom of the mid-2000s that it truly began to invest in the refit side of the business. That investment has led to a sustained upturn […]
Whether or not methanol should prove to be the winner (or one of them) in the great rush towards cleaner fuels is one of many questions unlikely to become apparent for a number of years yet. What is clear is that many shipowners are already prepared to hedge their bets. Over the summer Maersk, whose […]
thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited have signed a contract for overhaul and modernisation of Indian submarine INS Shankush. The agreement follows a memorandum of understanding between the partners in June 2023 for the construction of submarines for the Indian Navy in India. INS Shankush is the second submarine in a series of […]
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been awarded a US$154.8 million contract modification for work on USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000). Zumwalt arrived in Pascagoula on 19 August 2023 after leaving San Diego earlier in the month. The ship will enter a modernisation period and receive technology upgrades including the integration of the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) […]