Coast Guard R&D Center to test and evaluate Sharktech autonomous vessel

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics has partnered with Jeanerette, La., headquartered shipbuilder Metal Shark Boats to supply the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) with a new Sharktech 29 Defiant vessel

Hamworthy Pumps makes strong tanker market reentry

Singapore-based Hamworthy Pumps, now part of the Svanehøj Group along with sister brands Svanehøj, Eureka and Dolphin, is making a strong return to the tanker pump room sector in alliance with Denmark’s

Kongsberg and MAN in digital collaboration project with Höegh

Kongsberg Digital and MAN Energy Solutions are to deliver joint digital infrastructure to Höegh Autoliners. This marks the first step in entering into a strategic digitalization partnership and formalizes a Memorandum of

ESS specialist offers “microgrid in a box” for easy vessel installation

Vancouver, Canada, headquartered energy storage system (ESS) specialist Sterling PBES has launched the CanPower “microgrid in a box,” designed to add energy storage to virtually any vessel, without the need for complex

Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker to retrofit Wärtsilä solutions

Wärtsilä has won a contract for the delivery and integration engineering of two retractable thrusters and a dynamic positioning (DP) system for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) icebreaker CCGS Amundsen. Wärtsilä was

Shoreside power banks for electric vessels could use recycled batteries

Sweden’s Stena Group, whose operations include Stena Rederi and Stena Line, is taking the next step in shipping electrification: the development of a new type of shoreside energy storage, similar to very

HII breaks ground for Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence

America’s largest military shipbuilder is gearing up for the U.S. Navy’s plans for a future fleet mix that will include many more unmanned vessels, both on the water and beneath it. Huntington

CMA CGM takes delivery of world’s largest LNG-fueled containership

The CMA CGM group today took delivery of the first in a series of nine LNG-fueled 23,000 TEU containerships. In a first-of-its-kind digital naming ceremony linking the CSSC Shanghai shipyard in China

ABS and Israel Shipyards collaborate on 3D model project

ABS is approving Israel Shipyards’ 3D models as part of its plan review of the shipbuilder’s 45-meter multi-mission Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV). “Israel Shipyards is our latest partner where we have been

Robotic vessels

VIDEO: Ocean Infinity orders a fleet of robot ships

Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity, which specializes in seafloor analysis and oceanography services, has placed an order with Norwegian aluminum workboat specialist Grovfjord Mek. Verksted (GMV) for what it calls “an armada”

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