IMF staffers urge carbon tax on shipping
JANUARY 12, 2016 – Shipping and aviation may not have been explicitly included in the text of the Paris Agreement adopted at last month’s COP21 conference on climate change, but that does
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Swedish owners order LNG fueled tanker series
NOVEMBER 25, 2015 —Three partners in the Gothenburg, Sweden, headquartered Gothia Tanker alliance have ordered a series of 16,300 dwt next generation LNG fueled intermediate product/chemical tankers with LNG propulsion. Furetank Rederi
MOL fits a box ship with a windshield
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 — Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) has started demonstration tests of a new windshield for containerships that, it says, has the potential to reduce wind resistance, save fuel,
LaNaval poised to ink order to build two LNG fueled ferries
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 — Spain’s Baleària Group has reached an agreement with shipbuilder Construcciones Navales del Norte – La Naval for the construction of two natural gas fueled ferries. The agreement is
Wartsila wins regas module orders for two FSRUs
AUGUST 31, 2015 — South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has placed contracts with Wärtsilä for seawater/propane based regasification modules. The systems are to be installed on FSRU (Floating Storage and
MAN Diesel and Turbo to power Van Oord dredge newbuilds
AUGUST 6, 2015 — Rotterdam headquartered Van Oord has placed an order for two trailing-suction hopper dredges at the CNN LaNaval Shipyard in Sestao, Spain, with delivery dates scheduled for 2017. The
Meyer Turku starts production of LNG fueled Tallink ferry
AUGUST 4, 2015 — The start of production of Estonian operator Tallink’s new generation LNG fueled fast ferry for the Tallinn, Estonia-Helsinki, Finland, route began today at the Meyer Turku shipyard in
CMA CGM takes delivery of 18,000 TEU giant
JULY 27, 2015 — Marseilles, France, headquartered CMA CGM Group took delivery today of the CMA CGM Vasco De Gama on from China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). With a length of 399
CNOOC takes delivery of Asia’s first LNG fueled tugboat
JULY 3, 2015 — China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has taken delivery of Asia’s first purely LNG fueled tugboat, Hai Yang Shi You 525. The first of two tugs built by
Tanker back in service after conversion to LNG fueling
JUNE 29, 2015 — Norway’s Bergen Tankers AS has completed the successful conversion of the 4,447 dwt chemical/oil products tanker Bergen Viking from diesel-electric to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-electric propulsion. The 95