Helsinki-based NAPA has launched a cloud-based digital tool, NAPA Stability for Ferries, to support safe loading operations and cargo changes aboard ferries on tight schedules and turnround times. The first installations have been confirmed on seven…

Damen Financial Services (DFS) and Siemens Financial Services (SFS) have established a new vessel financing facility called Damen Ship Lease (DSL). The new setup is now one of the funds in the Damen Ship Lease Cooperation portfolio, which is managed…

WinGD has landed a contract for two six-cylinder X-DF-A ammonia-fuelled engines from Singapore-based tanker company AET, a subsidiary of Malaysian International Shipping Corporation. The engines will be the first ammonia dual-fuel units to be…

Australia-based Fortescue has successfully completed renewable fuel trials on its Singapore-registered tug, Fortescue Green Pioneer, in the Port of Singapore. These latest trials, involving propulsion and manoeuvrability tests, following the delivery…

Leading Arabian Gulf ship repairer ASRY (Arab Shipbuilding Repair Yard), based in Hidd, Bahrain, has signed a six-ship VLCC block booking deal with long-term repeat customer Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC).

Unfortunately, ASRY has been unable to inform…

With overseas deployment for the US Navy’s surface fleet growing and growing in an increasingly unstable world in the Middle East and Far East, it is increasingly seeking permission to repair vessels at overseas shipyards, as opposed to bringing…

Port Louis, Mauritius-based ship repairer Taylor Smith Shipyard (TSS) and South Africa-based marine diesel repair and service specialist Nouum Engineering have signed a cooperation agreement expanding both companies’ commercial and operational…

The US east coast repairer Detyens Shipyards, in Charleston, South Carolina, completed the refit of the US Navy’s Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment tanker USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO-105) in early May. This vessel is operated by the Military…