Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) and Japanese shipbuilder IHI Marine United Inc. (IHIMU) have signed an agreement for a joint development project to complete a concept study for a 13,000 TEU container
The world’s second and third-largest container shipping companies have announced the signature of a major agreement. The two family-owned companies, the Swiss-Italian MSC and France’s CMA CGM, today agreed to form a
Carrier Transicold has debuted the world’s first container refrigeration system to use the natural refrigerant CO2, exactly one year after the company announced it had developed and begun testing the technology. The
Despite weak freight rates and a poor time charter environment, containership operators are ordering ever larger vessels. Though this may seem counter-intuitive, shipbroker Braemar Seascope says it reinforces a trend that is
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) and Germanischer Lloyd (GL) have proved the feasibility of running large container vessels on LNG, with GL recently finishing approval in principle of a 14,000 TEU
Two officers of the Costamare-owned 3,032 containership Rena face charges laid by Maritime New Zealand (MNZ). The 236 m ship struck the Astrolabe Reef, near Tauranga Harbor, around 2.20 am, October 5,
Uniteam Marine Shipping GmbH, a German corporation, was sentenced in federal court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and making false statements to
GL Maritime Software’s navigational decision-making support system GL SeaScout 2.0 has been installed on board Reederei Claus-Peter Offen’s 14,000 TEU containership MSC Savona. It will help the vessel to optimize routing; minimizing
Wärtsilä is to supply the main engines for the first series of eight “Bangkok-max” containerships being built at the Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in Chinal. The ships will serve as feeder vessels in
The Cardiff, U.K., based Graig Group has ordered a series of up to 26 fuel-efficient new generation MARLIN 2000 Blue design container feeders to be built at China’s Jin Hai shipyard complex.
