NOVEMBER 25, 2016 —Vlissingen, Netherlands, headquartered Oceanwide Expeditions reports that it has commissioned the building of an 180-passenger vessel, called the Hondius, that will be the strongest ice-strengthened vessel in the Polar
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 — MS Roald Amundsen and MS Fridtjof Nansen, the Rolls-Royce designed 600 passenger expedition cruise ships on order at Norway’s Kleven shipyard for Hurtigruten, will feature a new and
NOVEMBER 15, 2016 — GE Aviation’s marine gas turbine business has signed a multilateral memorandum of understanding (MOU) with several South Korean partners to cooperate in the joint development of LPG-fueled ferry
NOVEMBER 8, 2016 — Maersk Line is partnering with the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to measure the environmental benefits of a $125 million upgrade for 12 Maersk containerships. This
OCTOBER 29, 2016 — IMO says that an important milestone on the road to controlling greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping was achieved by requirements adopted at last week’s meeting of its
OCTOBER 19, 2016 — Qatar’s Coast Guard Command is taking delivery of the first in a series of 17 composite hull boats from Antares Shipyard, located in Antalya on the South Coast
OCTOBER 16, 2016 — Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, SC, has won two Military Sealift Command contracts worth a total of more than $12.8 million. Detyens is being awarded a $9,252,917 firm-fixed-price
OCTOBER 13, 2016 — Damen Shipyards Group has unveiled its recently finished Expedition Cruise Vessel design, developed in partnership with Expedition Voyage Consultants Ltd and Danish naval architect firm Knud E. Hansen.
OCTOBER 7, 2016 — The Freire Shipyard in Vigo, Spain, is building two 80 m stern trawlers of Rolls-Royce NVC 375 design. One of the trawlers has been ordered by Qajaq Trawl
OCTOBER 6, 2016 —The Volkswagen Group says that from 2019 it will use two LNG fueled vessels chartered Siem Car Carriers AS for vehicle shipments between Europe and North America. They will
