NewBuilds

Optimarin reports that its USCG-approved ballast water treatment (BWT) technology will be aboard the Norwegian Polar Institute’s new research vessel Kronprins Haakon, due to be christened by Fincantieri next week.

The world's largest battery-hybrid ship, 'Color Hybrid', has arrived at Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein Verft in Norway for final stages of completion. 

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract by the Spanish ship builder Freire to deliver ship design and equipment systems for a new oceanographic research vessel for Belgium.

DSME, South Korea’s second-largest shipbuilder, has gotten its hopes up to finally receive the delayed payment of near $1 billion from Sonangol EP

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has clinched an order from Norway’s Hunter Group to build up to three VLCCs for about $273m.

Philly Shipyard, Inc. , the sole operating subsidiary of Philly Shipyard ASA, delivered the first of two 3,600 TEU Aloha Class containerships that PSI is building for Matson Navigation Company, Inc. .

SCHOTTEL has signed a contract with Damen Shipyardst equip the first fully-electric vessels to operate in Canada.

CMA CGM has completed its acquisition of Containerships after the European Commission authorized the transaction on October 22.

ESL Shipping Ltd., part of Aspo Plc., and Hamburg based Nauticor GmbH & Co. KG, a 100% subsidiary of The Linde Group, have signed a long-term contract for the supply of LNG in the port of Oxelösund

German shipyard Meyer Werft informed that it will delay the delivery of AIDAnova, the world’s first LNG fueled cruise ship. Before this announcement, AIDA Cruises was planned to receive the cruise ship on November 15, in Bremerhaven.

Hurtigruten continues to push the borders for green travel – and orders new, groundbreaking hybrid powered expedition cruise ship.

It has been 10 years since the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis, which also marked the start of a prolonged downturn for China’s once bustling and sprawling shipbuilding sector.