Trafigura is to time charter third-generation methanol dual-fuel products tanker Mari Innovator [Image: Waterfront Shipping]

Trafigura charters in methanol-fueled products tanker

Methanol, whether green or not, continues to make inroads as a marine fuel. Now Waterfront Shipping, a subsidiary of Methanex, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol, has entered into a

Virginia class submarine USS Arizona keel laying

Navy authenticates keel for future USS Arizona (SSN 803)

Yesterday, December 7, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, senior Navy leaders, elected officials, and industry partners gathered at General Dynamics Electric Boat’s Quonset Point Facility, to attend a keel-authentication ceremony for future

Solstad Offshore PSV

Solstad Offshore books 5-year contracts for two PSVs

Skudeneshavn, Norway, headquartered Solstad Offshore ASA (OSE: SOFF) reports that two of its PSVs, Normand Naley and Sea Frost, have been awarded five-year contracts by Equinor UK Limited (Equinor). Both contracts will

California offshore wind lease sale will be first for floaters

California offshore wind lease auction draws $757 million in high bids

The Department of the Interior today announced results from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s wind energy auction for five leases offshore California. The lease sale represents the third major offshore wind

Vard will make use of digital twin technology in the HVAC project

Vard gets grant to research digitalized HVAC systems

Fincantieri’s Norwegian based subsidiary Vard has been awarded a NOK 4.95 million (about $494,000) grant to research the possibility of digitalized HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) systems. Awarded by the Norwegian

power barge

EBDG designs harbor power and charging barge

Seattle-headquartered Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) has designed a harbor power and charging barge that offers ports and harbors a cost-conscious and high-performing option to minimize emissions from large vessels both pier

River cruise vessel

Knud E. Hansen unveils U.S. river cruise vessel design

No paddlewheels, smoke stacks or gingerbread here. Danish naval architectural firm Knud E. Hansen has unveiled a concept design for a U.S. river cruise vessel that makes no bows to the steamboat

Grounded containership Ever Forward

Pilot’s cell phone use cited in Ever Forward grounding report

A licensed state pilot’s use of a cell phone while in direction and control of the Evergreen Marine Corporation containership Ever Forward gets considerable attention in the U.S. Coast Guard’s report on

Seawing above ship

VIDEO: Seawing kite on transatlantic trials

Airseas, the Nantes, France, based wind propulsion pioneer founded by former Airbus engineers, has released video of its first Seawing kite system undergoing transatlantic sea trials. The system has been installed on

New Conrad Industries trailing suction hopper dredge

New Great Lakes TSHD is in the water

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) reports that the Galveston Island, the first of two newbuild trailing suction hopper dredges under construction at Conrad Shipyard, is in the water and

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