Swedish ferry company Stena Line’s revenue from its onboard shops for the first quarter of the year has shown a large increase on its routes between the UK and the EU compared to the same period last year. The growth…
After an extended period of closure, since March 2020, HMS Belfast will reopen its doors this July with an enhanced visitor experience. Visitors can enter new areas of the ship, learn about the lives of the crew who served on-board…
The cruise ship Disney Magic (1998/83,969gt) made a brief visit to Portland Harbour during April, and is pictured there on 20 April just before getting underway back to Dover. She was in Portland Harbour for an underwater inspection. This summer…
Crowley Engineering Services has completed the design of the first fully electric US tugboat with autonomous technology, providing operators a sustainable and high-performing solution for ship assist and harbour services in any port. The Crowley design, powered by the expertise…
The replace sailing ship VOC Amsterdam has returned to the Scheepvaartmuseum (National Maritime Museum) in the Dutch capital after a scope of work undertaken at Damen’s yards. The replica of an 18th century Dutch East India vessel visited Damen Shiprepair…
Crowley Shipping and Shell Trading (US) Company (“STUSCO”) recently initiated use of low carbon biofuel to power the Crowley tugboat Veteran, a ship assist and escort tug serving the Bay of San Francisco. The fuelling contract between the companies reflects…
Damen Shipyards has delivered the first of its new aquaculture support vessels. The Landing Utility Vessel (LUV) 1908 is a larger version of the LUV 1608, the first example of which entered service in August 2019. The LUV 1908 has…
Evergreen Marine Corp is to continue using ‘megaships’ — vessels with more than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of capacity — on its European routes, despite the Suez Canal incident. Evergreen Marine uses two kinds of vessels on its Europe…
The X-gas Project is a series of innovative and unconventional, medium-capacity Liquified Gas / Gas bunkering tankers designed by KNUD E. HANSEN. The flagship design of the project is a 126.5m vessel with a total cargo capacity of 9,000 cubic…
In 2020, ferry company Stena Line continued to reduce its total CO2 emissions and is ten years ahead of the IMO international shipping emission reduction targets. Nevertheless, the Swedish shipping company is now accelerating the transition towards fossil-free shipping and…