A growing choice of fleet management software is helping manage people, ships and their operations safely and efficiently.

A data-driven passage

Cargo Stowage and Hazard Compliance Because cargo stowage and compliance (regulated by worldwide authorities) can be a menace to manage, shipboard software is being tailored to provide vessel operators and ship managers

Inmarsat and ITC Global announce strategic collaboration

Inmarsat and ITC Global have announced a five-year strategic collaboration. The partnership enables the organizations to combine their highly complementary services to offer broadband connectivity, paired with high-value connectivity solutions to customers

Sanmar delivers first tug with CAT AVD hybrid solution

Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has delivered the Boğaçay XXXVIII, its 200th tug built to a design by Robert Allan Ltd. The delivery marks both a milestone in a working relationship of 25 years

Supply vessel to be converted to operate on ammonia fuel cells

Equinor has signed an agreement with Eidesvik Offshore that will see the North Sea supply vessel Viking Energy modified to enable it to cover long distances powered by carbon-free ammonia fuel cells.

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Wärtsilä launches LNG bunkering/supply simulator

Wärtsilä is launching a new LNG bunkering & supply system simulator. It says the simulator will promote greater safety onboard LNG-fueled vessels by improving the level of training for operators of LNG

LNG-fueled icebreaking RO/ROs to have MAN Cryo FGSS

The two LNG-fueled icebreaking RO/ROs on order at China’s Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard (see earlier story) will each have MAN Cryo LNG fuel gas supply systems (FGSS) and two MAN 9L28/32DF dual-fuel

Kongsberg gets EU funding to demo two autonomous vessels

Kongsberg is to install and test autonomous technology on two vessels in different operational environments, with the help of EUR 20.1 million (about $22.3 million) in funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020

ABS and Hyundai Heavy complete Smart-ship JDP

Marking completion of a landmark joint development project (JDP), classification society ABS has verified the smart functions of shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Integrated Smart-ship Solution, issuing the first Product Design Assessment (PDA)

MSC Cruises’ World Class ships will feature range of Wärtsilä solutions

The first two World Class cruise vessels being built for Geneva, Switzerland, based MSC Cruises by shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique will incorporate a package of Wärtsilä solutions designed to support and enhance

With ZEVs needed by 2030, ammonia-fueled tanker project gets underway

To meet IMO’s 2050 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction target, commercially viable deep-sea Zero-Emission Vessels (ZEVs) will need be in operation by 2030 —just ten years from now. In response, shipowner MISC

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