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The last decade has been exciting for electric propulsion with around 2% of vessels over 500t being propelled by it. This represents about 1,200 ships and the annual market for marine electric…

Dubai Drydocks is the largest ship repair facility in the Middle East. Built in the late 1970s, with the aim of capitalising on Dubai?s geographical proximity to the major oil terminals in…

Chilean ship owner Ultragas has taken delivery of the latest addition to its fleet, the 22,700m3 chemical carrier Guanaco. Built at Izar?s shipyard in Gijon, this 161.23m long double hulled vessel is…

Some of our readers with good memories may recall that a few years ago there was an announcement that a new shipping company transporting vehicles between Hawaii and the mainland would be…

Following in the footsteps of the V-MAX and C-MAX series of tankers, Concordia Maritime of the Stena Group, is poised to introduce a new member to its MAX tanker family called P-MAX.…

If they were sure they could, they probably would. Ordering of very large containerships has resumed this year and talk has resurfaced of the potential to build vessels with unprecedented carrying capacities…

Despite pods suffering from their problems, there has been no let up in the advance of this technology. There have been a number of interesting developments of late, such as the two…

It was a big summer for what has become the pivotal yard-line relationship in cruising. Carnival group took two ships from Fincantieri, and the handovers of Carnival Cruises? Carnival Glory (built at…

Austal Ships is claiming that its success in making the short list for the preliminary design of the US Navy?s $10 billion Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) project represents further proof of the…