Meyer Turku CEO Tim Meyer and TUI Cruises CEO Wybcke Meier celebrate keel laying of Mein Schiff 7

TUI Cruises makes a move towards methanol fueling

In another sign of the serious attention methanol fueling is getting in the cruise industry, TUI Cruises’ newbuild Mein Schiff 7 will be methanol ready. The first steel block of Mein Schiff

Liberty Lines high speed hybrid ferry

Italy’s Liberty Lines orders three more high speed hybrid ferries

Italian ferry operator Liberty Lines has added three more to the nine 38-meter hybrid monohull vessels it has on order at Spanish shipbuilder Armon. Designed by Incat Crowther, the ferries will feature

Straregic Marine and Takinda executives

Strategic Marine orders 100 Cats

In what it calls a “clear indication of confidence” in demand for its boats, Singapore shipbuilder Strategic Marine has placed an order with authorized Caterpillar dealer PT Trakindo Utama for 100 Cat

NTSB reports on American Mariner strike on AOTON

Operator got crane height wrong. Bridge took near $2 million hit

In another report on an unhappy meeting between a crane on a barge and a bridge, the NTSB says that an incorrect estimate of a crane’s boom height led to contact with

John Fredriksen is now a member of the Euronav board

John Fredriksen and Marc Saverys join Euronav board

There are new faces on the board of tanker giant Euronav following today’s special shareholders’ meeting, including John Fredriksen and Saverys family patriarch Marc Saverys. That meeting was originally requested back on

Alfa Laval exec is impressed with fluidic hull air lubrication

Alfa Laval offers new hull air lubrication solution

Hull air lubrication has been around for quite some time. Now Alfa Laval thinks it has found a better way of easing a hull more smoothly through the water on a carpet

voyage optimization system displays

CII voyage optimization made simple?

Can attaining the desired CII value for a voyage be as simple as setting it on a control panel slider? Swedish marine green tech company Qtagg says “yes.” With shipowners getting increasingly

Autonomous ferry at dock

Stockholm to put autonomous ferry into operation this year

Back in November last year, Norwegian ferry operator Torghatten announced that it was planning to operate a small autonomous ferry in Stockholm, Sweden, and that shipbuilder Brødrene Aa had been given the

Stena Bulk will trial onboard carbon capture

Onboard carbon capture project moves closer to pilot installation

ABS has given its Approval in Principle to a project that plans to demonstrate the feasibility of using carbon capture onboard a vessel, with a pilot installation on a Stena Bulk MR

MTU gensets for second Constellation class frigate will be manufactured in the U.S

Second Constellation-class frigate will have “Made in the U.S.A.” MTU gensets

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has been selected to supply a further four of its MTU gensets for the USS Congress (FFG-63), the second ship in the U.S. Navy’s Constellation-class guided-missile frigate program. Rolls-Royce

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