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06.11.2025
CMA CGM To Flag 10 Of The World’s Largest LNG-Powered Container Ships Under French FlagThe vessels, each with a capacity of 24,212 TEUs, are among the largest and most energy-efficient ships in the world. They will be delivered gradually from 2026 and deployed on CMA CGM’s French Asia Line (FAL 1), connecting Northern Europe to Asia with regular calls at Le Havre and Dunkirk. ...30.10.2025
China's biggest all-electric dry cargo ship launchedThe world’s biggest 10,000-ton pure electric transport ship called Gezhouba was launched in Yichang, in western Hubei province of China. The ship is 129.98 m long, 22 m wide and 7.7 m deep with a draft of 6.5 m and a maximum deadweight of 13,740 tons. It will mainly transport bulk commodit...27.10.2025
CircleDV Launches CDV Health Telemedicine Service for SeafarersThe system combines a telehealth app with a monitoring device that automatically records six key health metrics – blood glucose, blood pressure, body temperature, ECG, heart rate, and oxygen saturation – and uploads the data to a secure digital record. The readings can be shared live w...16.10.2025
ADNOC Logistics & Services PLC and TA’ZIZ Have Signed a Contract to Build a Chemicals Port at the TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone in Al RuwaisThe port will be completed by 2026 The system would include a tank terminal, feedstock pipelines, and infrastructure, including roads, emergency response, health and safety This would include: low-carbon ammonia caustic soda methanol ethylene dichloride (EDC) vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) polyv...09.10.2025
Successful Ship-to-Ship Transfer of 23,000 Tons of Liquefied Ammonia AchievedAdvancing the global ammonia supply network through STS technology. On September 2, a ship-to-ship (STS) ammonia transfer was executed from the ammonia carrier Berlian Ekuator — owned by NYK and time-chartered by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. — to the ammonia carrier Eco Enchanted, operated b...02.10.2025
NYK Unveils AI-Powered Car Carrier Allocation SystemNippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), MTI Co., (MTI), and Grid Co., (Grid) have jointly developed and launched an AI-based system to automate and optimise the allocation of car carriers.. The system, which began full-scale operations at NYK in July, can evaluate millions of potential shipping sch...18.09.2025
World-Leading Consortium Launches (D.E.E.P) Project to Conduct the Feasibility of the World’s First Digitally Enabled PropellerThe Digitally Enabled Efficient Propeller (D.E.E.P) project will pioneer a new generation of marine propellers manufactured using advanced additive manufacturing (AM) processes, integrated with digital twin technology. This innovation will transform propellers from passive hardware into smart, cyber...11.09.2025
Singapore Carrier SNG Will Equip One of its Gas Carriers with a Rotary Sail from Bound4blueSingapore-based BW Epic Kosan (BWEK), a provider of LPG, petrochemicals and specialty gas transportation, has signed an agreement with bound4blue for the installation of a 24-meter tall eSAIL suction sail on the 2007-buit Helena Kosan vessel. The autonomous wind propulsion system, to be installed ...04.09.2025
South Africa Tightens Ship-to-Ship Transhipment Rules to Protect PenguinsSouth Africa has introduced tough new rules to control offshore ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operations, including bunkering, along its coastline. The government says the measures are aimed at preventing pollution, protecting marine ecosystems, and giving critically endangered African penguins a chan...28.08.2025
IMO Introduces New Container Loss Reporting Requirements at SeaThe International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved mandatory amendments to Chapter V of the SOLAS Convention (Regulations 31 and 32) and Article V of MARPOL Protocol I. These amendments aim to standardize container loss reporting procedures and will enter into force on January 1, 2026. Und...
