Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has awarded Chinese shipbuilder Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering a contract for the construction of a new heavy transport vessel. MOL’s dry bulk shipping arm MOL Drybulk will be the operator of the vessel, which will be used primarily for the transport of components of offshore...
MOL Energia, a Singapore-based subsidiary of Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), has taken delivery of a new very large gas carrier (VLGC) constructed by Japan’s Namura Shipbuilding. Phoenix Harmonia is the first vessel of a newly-developed series of VLGCs constructed by Namura with assistance from Mitsubishi...
Japanese shipbuilder Naikai Zosen Corporation has launched a new Ro-Pax ferry ordered by Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) for operation by subsidiary Ferry Sunflower. Sunflower Kamuy will be the third LNG-fuelled ferry in the Ferry Sunflower fleet following its delivery and entry into service in 2025. Upon...
MOTENA-Sea, a company under Japan’s the MOL Group, has placed a new hybrid ferry into operational service in the waters off the city of Kitakyushu. The 33-metre-long Hanaria was developed as a hybrid vessel that uses hydrogen and biodiesel as fuels. The hydrogen fuel cells consist of two 240kW...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has launched the commercial operation of the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Jawa Satu for the Jawa 1 LNG-fired power plant in West Java, Indonesia. MOL owns the FSRU through local partner Jawa Satu Regas, an entity jointly established by Indonesian...
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) reports that its wholly owned subsidiary, SeaLoading Holding AS has signed a charter contract for the cargo transfer vessel SeaLoader 2 with Petrobras. The two companies have also decided to enter into negotiations on placing a shipbuilding contract for a third cargo transfer vessel by the end of 2024.
SeaLoading’s cargo transfer vessels (which it logically, but confusingly, refers to as CTVs) enable crude oil from a floating production, storage & offloading system...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/sealoading-and-petrobras-eye-build-of-new-cargo-transfer-vessel/
South Korean shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering (KSOE) has entered into a memorandum of understanding with compatriot logistics company Hyundai Glovis, Australia’s Woodside Energy, and Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) for cooperation in the development of a liquefied hydrogen (LH2) transportation value chain. Since 2022, KSOE has been working with Woodside […]
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As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again. The disruption inevitably works its way through to the Asia Pacific. Take the Panama...
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… a partridge in a pear tree, according to the ancient English carol, but here at Baird Maritime, that’s the cue for a dozen topical features on the offshore industry. Lovers of yuletide traditions – and even those of you who are checking your phone […]
Deliveries include a floating LNG liquefaction vessel and an exploration platform that will operate in support of the Chinese offshore wind market. A Chinese yard floats out a new cable-laying vessel with an innovative trenching system. Finally, a Taiwanese wind farm operator will add a second walk-to-work vessel to its fleet. Golar LNG acquires floating […]
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