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COMPANY NEWS: COSCO scraps and builds

Last August China’s COSCO announced that it was going to scrap 13 ships, including four container carriers and nine bulkers, as part of a...

TECHNOLOGY: Bulbous bow surgery

Another owner has elected to perform bulbous bow surgery in an effort to optimise fuel efficiency. Clipper Project Shipping had the bulb of its...

Container ships: NYK agrees charter for ULCCs

Japan’s second largest container line Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has confirmed that it has reached agreement to time-charter a series of eight new 14,000TEU...

Industry news: A decade of IMO numbers

International Maritime Organization (IMO) numbers, the unique identifiers for ships, ship owners and management companies, were introduced under the SOLAS Convention to improve maritime...

NEW DESIGN: The MCV: a new vessel type

A new ship type has been created as a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The Marine...

Container Ships: Flettner rotor ship returns to service

European wind turbine manufacturer Enercon has returned its turbine transporting vessel E-Ship 1 to operation after taking the vessel out of service for almost...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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