More than 200 GW of new offshore wind projects have been announced since the beginning of 2020 – accounting for more than 44% of all global capacity at the pre-construction or early development phase, according to the 2020 Global Offshore Wind Annual Market Report issued this week from the...
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An agreement in principle has been reached over a compensation claim between the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) and the owners of the 20,388 teu that blocked the Suez Canal in March this year. “Following extensive discussions with the Suez Canal Authority’s negotiating committee over the past few...
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Hamburg-based liner Hapag-Lloyd has ordered another six 23,500+ teu ultra-large container vessels at South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The vessels will be equipped with high-pressure dual-fuel LNG engines, and are scheduled for delivery from 2024. The vessels will also...
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Chinese boxship operator SITC has placed an order at South Korean yard, Dae Sun Shipbuilding, for two additional 1,023 teu container vessels. The two boxship newbuilds are optional vessels the Hong Kong-listed SITC could take as part of the earlier signed $153.6m deal for eight ships scheduled for...
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Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), two of Japan’s largest shipping lines, are part of a team setting out to design larger liquefied CO2 carriers. The Japanese government has been backing the nation’s development of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), carbon dioxide...
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Funcionarios coreanos confirmaron que se ha iniciado una investigación después de que el constructor naval surcoreano Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. informara de que había encontrado pruebas de que unos piratas informáticos habían intentado vulnerar los sistemas informáticos de la...
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) is forming a global research and development alliance to create the next generation of ships. The yard, one of the largest, most advanced in the world, will work with four universities, five class societies and five research institutes...
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Court proceedings to free the 20,388 teu have been put on hold for another fortnight as the ship’s owner and the Suez Canal Authority battle over compensation claims. Representatives of Shoei Kisen, the ship’s owner, and the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) were due in court yesterday for a delayed...
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A worker has died and at least three others sustained serious injuries following a boiler explosion at a shipyard in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram in Bangladesh. The accident took place at an SN Corporation facility around 14.00 hrs local time on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Ripon...
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Japan’s Mitsubishi HC Capital (MHC) has snapped up San Francisco-based container leasing company CAI International in a $1.1bn deal. The deal comprises of $104m of preferred stock and $986m of common stock equity value, and has an enterprise value of $2.9bn, the New York-listed CAI International...
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