Belgian offshore construction and dredging group Jan De Nul has placed an order for its third and largest offshore wind turbine installation group at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry in China....

Danish ship designer Knud E. Hansen has signed a contract with Nanjing Jinling Shipyard in China to develop the basic design for three large roll-on/roll-off vessels for Finnlines. The vessels...

By Ariadne Dimoulas – This article series will look into inventions shaping today’s seascape. How has our mariner history resulted in today’s groundbreaking inventions? Which inventions direct our future? What...

Danish naval architecture firm Knud E Hansen has been selected to design six modern roll-on/roll-off vessels for Grimaldi Group. The new vessels will have a length of 238 meters, a...

Ship designers at Rolls-Royce have unveiled what the company describes as a radical overhaul of its vessel design philosophy aiming to optimize vessel construction and operations without sacrificing space on board....

A modern fleet of pusher tugs and barges for Louis Dreyfus Company, a leading global merchant and processor of agricultural goods have recently begun construction in Brazil, all to customized...

The Government of British Columbia, the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME), and Business in Vancouver magazine have presented the 2016 BC Export Award for Professional Services to Robert Allan Ltd.,...

Danish naval architecture firm Knud E Hansen will be providing the design for two new roll-on/roll-off vessels for European shipping and logistics company DFDS. The two ships will be built...

A ship design unit of British engine maker Rolls-Royce has secured a contract with South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries to apply its award-winning Environship in the design of a...

Helsinki-headquartered Wärtsilä says it has been awarded a contract to design a new series of jack-up vessels to serve maintenance vessels in the offshore oil and gas.  The company announced...

  A new design for a liquefied natural gas (LNG)-bunkering articulated tug and barge unit (ATB) designed by Seattle-based naval architecture firm Jensen Maritime has been granted “approval in principle”...

  After successful sea trials, the world’s first widened containership – MSC Geneva – re-entered service this month sailing between China and South America. The MSC Geneva is the first...

  [contextly_sidebar id=”eTQ4jKmGgaBM8winqn9iZ2ItZZwUju84″]Docked near the Houston ship channel in a bug infested estuary is the battleship USS Texas (BB-35), the world’s last remaining “dreadnought” afloat. After over 100 years after her launch...

After launching a brand new ro-ro ferry, the operator of the vessel noticed a number of issues including excess vibration, lack of maneuverability and stopping ability. In addition, the vehicle...

U.S.-based naval architecture firm Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) has announced this week their engineers are currently completing the detail design phase of a double hull oil tank barge and...

A RoPax ferry design by Danish naval architecture firm Knud E. Hansen has just been chosen by Denmark’s Strandfaraskip Landsins to replace the current ferry providing services between Nólsoy and Tórshavn...

The last two tugs of a five-tug fleet upgrade program have just been delivered to Tianjin Port of China from CCCC Bomesc Marine Industry Co. Ltd. in Tianjin city. The five...

In the 1986 movie Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott went back in time, along with the rest of the Enterprise crew to capture a pair...

In January, Finnish shipowner Meriaura Group signed an order for two 4,700 ton deadweight Ice Class 1A VG EcoCoasterTM general cargo ships at Dutch yard Royal Bodewes. Foreship Ltd, the naval architecture...

It’s been an interesting and tumultuous year in the maritime and offshore sector with both regulatory and commercial drivers contributing to really interesting innovations in the sector. Here are a...