Kongsberg Digital acquires Danish software specialist

Kongsberg Digital has acquired Coach Solutions, a vessel performance and monitoring software specialist spun off by Danish shipping company Clipper Group in 2016. Since then the company has grown rapidly, and its

Østensjø offshore wind quartet to have electric Voith Schneider Propellers

Four offshore wind supply vessels on order for Norway’s Østensjø Group at two Spanish shipyards will each be equipped with two electric Voith Schneider Propellers (eVSP). The vessels will be delivered with

Chartwell to design and deliver hybrid CTV

Southampton, U.K., based Chartwell Marine has signed a contract to design and deliver a new hybrid Chartwell 24 offshore wind crew transfer vessel (CTV) for Swansea, Wales, headquartered High Speed Transfers, Ltd.

ESG launches second of three Staten Island ferries

Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc.’s Allanton shipyard in Panama City, Fla., last week launched the Sandy Ground (Hull 220), the second of three new “Ollis Class” ferries for the New York City Department

Full scale testing of ammonia as a marine four-stroke fuel set to start next year

Wärtsilä reports that the world’s first long-term, full-scale test of ammonia as fuel in a marine four-stroke engine is planned to start in the first quarter of next year. The project brings

SHI partners with Bloom Energy to develop fuel cell powered ships

Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), a California company that got its start with a NASA program aiming to to convert Martian atmospheric gases to oxygen, could play key roll in the development of

Resolve response tug honored with AMVER award for fourth year

Resolve Marine, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reports that its U.S.-flag response tug Pioneer has received an AMVER Award for a fourth consecutive year. Resolve says the award represents an acknowledgment of its continued

Sea-Cargo to retrofit RO/RO with tilting rotor sails

Norwegian multipurpose vessel operator Sea-Cargo is to retrofit its 1997-built RO/RO SC Connector with rotor sails and a battery pack. Installation is scheduled for fourth quarter 2020 and Sea-Cargo says that, in

Natasia Pilides leaves shipping post to become Cyprus’s Minister of Energy

In a reshuffle of his cabinet last week, the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, promoted Shipping Deputy Minister Natasa Pilides to Minister of Energy, Trade and Industry. Named Cyprus’s first Shipping Deputy

Marine Highway grant will fund key element of Jeffersonville barge shuttle project

The Ports of Indiana says that $545,145 awarded it in the latest round of MARAD Marine Highway grants will support a $778,766 barge shuttle project for Nucor Steel underway at its Jeffersonville

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