French container shipping giant CMA CGM has sent a new order of 12 LNG dual-fuel container vessels to South Korea’s shipyard HD Hyundai Heavy Industries.
The two companies signed a letter of intent (LoI) for a contract valued at around 3.9 trillion won (US$2.7 billion), which is the first order that the shipyard received in 2025. The estimated price per container ship exceeds US$220 million.
CMA CGM is closing in on Maersk and may overtake the Danish carrier in TEU capacity by the end of the...
One of the word’s largest manufacturers of marine engines, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, is adding a zero-carbon ammonia dual-fuel (DF) engine to its HiMSEN line of medium speed engines.
It is the world’s first ammonia engine to feature a high-pressure ammonia direct injection method.
Until now, ammonia engines have used a “low-pressure premixed combustion method” which burns a mixture of ammonia and air, which has been provided to the engine combustion chamber, through compression. The newly...
https://www.marinelog.com/technology/hd-hyundai-heavy-claims-himsen-ammonia-engine-breakthrough/
The Hellenic Navy acquires a former research vessel for special operations support as Japan welcomes a stealth frigate into service and new corvettes for Russia and the Philippines are launched. Construction begins on Australia’s Hunter-class frigates. Finally, ordered have been placed for frigates for the German Navy and patrol boats for Australia’s Pacific Island neighbours. […]
South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) launched the Philippine Navy’s newest guided-missile corvette in a ceremony in Ulsan on Tuesday, June 18. The future BRP Miguel Malvar is the lead ship of a new class of two corvettes ordered by the Philippine Navy from HHI in late 2021....
French shipping company the CMA CGM Group has taken delivery of a new container vessel built by HD Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea. The Malta-registered CMA CGM Mermaid is the first in a new series of ten containerships powered by LNG and featuring a new hull design developed to improve energy...
Shell and South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) for the design and construction of a new liquefied hydrogen (LH2) carrier. The JDA stipulates that Shell and HHI will develop a large-scale LH2 carrier with the goal of...
Danish shipping company A.P. Moller Maersk recently took delivery of a new ultra-large containership (ULCS) built by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea. The vessel has been named Ane Mærsk in honour of Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, mother of A.P. Moller-Maersk’s current Chair Robert Maersk...
South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and electronics company Daeyang Electric Industry have entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the development of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and associated technologies for export customers. Under the MOA, the two companies aim to develop a differentiated model from existing unmanned submersibles through accumulated technology […]
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Private equity company Cerberus Capital Management and South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have entered into an agreement for the lease of the Cerberus-owned Agila Subic Shipyard at the former US Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines. HHI, acting on behalf of parent company HD Korea...
“They come over here, taking our jobs and stealing our women,” is a familiar refrain against foreigners all around the world, as likely to be uttered from Dublin to Durban, from Dusseldorf to Des Moines, and from Denpasar to Dubai (well, probably not the second part in the UAE, but we won’t dwell...