VIDEO: Holland Shipyards books order for five electric ferries

Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Netherlands, based Holland Shipyards Group has been awarded a contract by GVB, Amsterdam’s public transportation provider, covering the construction of five new fully-electric ferries which will be operating in the North

Golden Energy Offshore and Kongsberg collaboration cuts operational fuel consumption

Norwegian offshore service vessel (OSV) owner and operator Golden Energy Offshore reports that its long-term collaboration on vessel performance monitoring with Kongsberg Maritime and deployment of Kongsberg’s containerized SAVe Energy battery system

Wight Shipyard calls hybrid SES crew transfer vessel a “game changer”

Britain’s Wight Shipyard Co. has released some more details of the first-of-its-kind hybrid surface effect crew transfer vessel that it is to build for offshore wind support specialist CWind. The SES will

Terntank orders hybrid tanker duo

Swedish based Terntank, a pioneer of LNG as a marine fuel, is taking the next step towards carbon-neutral shipping. It has ordered two new 15,000 dwt chemical/product/biofuels tankers at China’s AVIC Dingheng

CWind develops hybrid SES offshore wind CTV

From mid-2020, the world’s first hybrid powered Surface Effect Ship will be operating as an offshore wind crew transfer vessel (CTV). Chelmsford, U.K., based CWind has reached a long term charter agreement

Transocean rig is world’s first hybrid floating drilling unit

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) reports that it has successfully deployed the world’s first hybrid energy storage system aboard a floating drilling unit. The system is now operational on the Transocean Spitsbergen, engaged

Eidesvik picks Wärtsilä for hybrid upgrade project

Norway’s Eidesvik AS is to upgrade its 2015-built construction vessel Viking Neptune. It has selected Wärtsilä  to engineer, supply, and commission a hybrid propulsion system for the vessel. Wärtsilä says this latest

Shearer Group to provide construction oversight of new TxDOT ferry

The Shearer Group, Inc. (TSGI) is to provide construction oversight of the 300 ft hybrid ferry under construction for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) at Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc.’s Jennings, La.,

Kongsberg upgrade of Tidewater PSV includes advanced hybrid solution

Kongsberg Maritime has won a contract to carry out a “full picture” upgrade of the 2011-built Tidewater Inc. (NYSE: TDW) platform supply vessel Bailey Tide that will include installation of a state-of-the-art

Wärtsilä will fit new DP2 construction vessel with hybrid system

Acta Centaurus, a 93.4 meter offshore wind construction support delivered earlier this year by Norway’s Ulstein Verft, is to be fitted with a Wärtsilä hybrid propulsion solution. The DP2 walk-to-work construction support

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