Ships & Yards 13-18 – Page 30
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NewsGorch Fock yard saga takes another turn.
Germany’s Luerssen Group has bought the insolvent Elsflether Werft - along with the controversial contract to repair and renovate the famous Navy sail training ship Gorch Fock - reports Germany Correspondent Tom Todd.
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NewsDELAYED GREENING OF THE COSTA FLEET
Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku has announced a further delay in the delivery of the 182,700gt Costa Smeralda, attributing the continuing postponement to the high complexity and sheer size of the vessel, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsPush comes to pull on hybrid Scandlines ships
The hybrid ferry Schleswig-Holstein has become the first of four Scandlines ships due to swap old push-thruster drive systems for new eco-friendly pull-thruster units, reports Germany Correspondent Tom Todd.
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NewsViking’s latest ferry is most climate-smart
Viking Line’s latest passenger ship will be one of the most climate-smart yet, with the Finnish ferry company estimating that it will consume up to 10% less fuel that its smaller sister ship.
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NewsFSG looks to stability under new owners
An eighth newbuilding for SIEM was due for launch by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) in October as the German yard looked to production stabilisation under a new owner after a period of financial uncertainty.
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NewsRO-PAX CAT FOR SCOTTISH FAR NORTH
Vietnam’s shipbuilding industry has a new reference on the European market, by way of a UK-designed, steel-hulled catamaran ro-pax ferry delivered for service between the Scottish mainland and the Orkney Islands, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsFirst South Asian autonomous tug retrofit
ABB and Keppel Marine and Deepwater Technology (KMDTech) have joined forces to retrofit a harbour tugboat, making it the first autonomous tug in South Asia.
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NewsGrand block ceremony for Nexans cable layer
Fibre optic cable company, Nexans, has hosted the grand block ceremony for its new DP3 cable installation vessel.
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NewsAET's next-gen dual-fuel DPSTs named
AET, the leading petroleum tanker owner and operator, named its newest vessels, two of the world''s first LNG Dual-Fuel Dynamic Positioning Shuttle Tankers (DPSTs). The sister twin-skeg 123,100dwt shuttle tankers, Eagle Blane and Eagle Balder, were unveiled at a naming ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) Geoje Shipyard, ...
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NewsGERMAN YARDS INVEST FOR HIGH-END MARKETS
Structural change and revitalisation of German shipbuilding is accompanied by technological and environmental strategies to keep the industry ahead of the curve.
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NewsSELF-DISCHARGER FOR EUROPEAN STONE TRADE
Steel cutting has been implemented in China on a 40,000dwt self-unloading bulk carrier ordered for north European trade by a German-Canadian joint venture, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsMajor LNG carrier order for Zvezda Shipyard
A joint venture between Novatek and Sovcomflot will oversee order and operation of a new fleet of ice class LNG carriers, writes Eugene Gerden
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NewsGerman yard wins work on unique research ship
What is being billed as the world’s largest combined scientific research and cruise expedition vessel will dock at specialist German shipyard Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven (LWB) next April for about a year of final outfitting support, reports Tom Todd.
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NewsAtlantic Offshore battery hybrid upgrade
Technology group Wärtsilä will engineer, supply, and install complete battery hybrid packages to two offshore supply vessels owned by the Norway-based operator Atlantic Offshore.
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NewsSHIPBUILDING TOUR-DE-FORCE ON MERSEYSIDE
The UK’s new polar research ship is a boon to the science community and also represents a milestone industrial achievement, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsLNG Retrofits: Why Better Lateral Thinking is Needed to Ensure Reliability
Peter Morsbach, Director Projects at Høglund Gas Solutions, discusses some of the issues that can arise during LNG retrofits.
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NewsAiP for Osaka Gas for gas conversion project
Classification society, ClassNK, has granted approval in principle (AIP) to Osaka Gas for their joint project with Daihatsu Diesel on an LPG Reformer for marine engines.
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NewsNYK orders large LNG-fuelled car carrier
Japan’s NYK Line has placed an order for an LNG-fuelled pure car and truck carrier (PCTC). The 200 metre-long vessel is expected to become the world’s largest LNG-fuelled PCTC when it enters service, with the capacity to carry up to 7,000 cars.
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NewsFUTURE-PROOFED FERRIES FOR ENGLISH CHANNEL
A new generation of ferries has been ordered in China to serve passenger and freight traffic between Britain and continental Europe on the busiest and shortest crossing of the English Channel, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsTHUN RAISES SCOPE IN COASTAL TRADES
Despite the cessation of trade in oil products to many small, tidal ports and river berths in the British Isles over the past few decades, the NAABSA charter party clause denoting ‘Not always afloat, but safely aground’ remains wholly relevant to the region’s shortsea market, writes David Tinsley.
