Month: January 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

P&O Ferries has announced that it achieved a 9% reduction (equivalent to 85,000 tons) in its carbon emissions in 2021, by optimising its sailings and improving the efficiency of its operations. 

10th January 2023

P&O Ferries cut carbon footprint by 9%

10th January 2023

OTHER ALTERNATIVE FUELS

OTHER ALTERNATIVE FUELS

Bureau Veritas has awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Oceans of Energy, a market leader in offshore solar farms, for their system design of a high wave offshore solar farm system.

10th January 2023

AiP for high wave offshore solar farm system

10th January 2023

SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

NOV awarded contracts for the equipment package and design license for Havfram’s first wind installation jack-up vessel to CIMC Raffles in December 2022.

10th January 2023

Havfram signs contract with CIMC Raffles for next-gen WTIV

10th January 2023

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

A project to install a hybrid wind-solar generation system alongside a tilting windsail system on a bulker and a container vessel has been awarded EUR9.2m from the European Union’s research and innovation fund.

10th January 2023

EU funding for wind-assisted retrofit project

10th January 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kongsberg Maritime is to supply Turkish tugboat builder Med Marine with Escort Series towing winches for nine escort tugs equipped with azimuth stern drives.

9th January 2023

KM in Med Marine tug winch order

9th January 2023

REGULATION

REGULATION

Pre-empting moves to establish a low emissions zone in the Mediterranean, Israel is bringing forward requirements for ships calling at the country’s ports to burn fuel with a maximum sulphur content of 0.10%. The…

9th January 2023

Israel brings in 0.1% sulphur cap

9th January 2023

LNG

LNG

ABS and HD Hyundai have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) covering a range of autonomous projects to extend autonomous navigation technology into critical vessel machinery at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas…

9th January 2023

ABS and HD Hyundai advance autonomous project collaboration

9th January 2023

REGULATION

REGULATION

The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) expects shipping companies to submit Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) emissions reports to verification bodies covering 2022 in early 2023.

9th January 2023

UK delays MRV reporting requirements until 2025

9th January 2023

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

Maritime UK has appointed Robin Mortimer as new chair and Tom Boardley as vice chair.

6th January 2023

Maritime UK senior team appointments

6th January 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

CIMAC has unveiled the draft programme of the 30th edition of the CIMAC World Congress, which is due to be held in Busan in Korea in June 2023.

6th January 2023

CIMAC unveils draft agenda for 2023 World Congress

6th January 2023