DNV has launched a Shanghai-based gas carrier and alternative fuels expert team to support two thriving markets in China: large gas carriers and alternative-fuelled newbuildings.

Global Energy Trading (GET) and Stellar Shipmanagement have ordered Singapore’s first dedicated methanol bunker tanker to be built in Japan.

Japanese shipowner NYK has ordered two LNG-fuelled coal carriers from Oshima Shipbuilding.

The Hydrotug 1, the world’s first hydrogen-powered tugboat, has arrived in the Port of Ostend, Belgium.

Cosco Shipping Holdings announced a massive newbuild order for 12 methanol-fuelled, 24,000 teu containerships from Dalian Cosco KHI Shipping Engineering and Nantong KHI Shipping Engineering.

Maersk has chosen ABS to class its latest order of six methanol-fuelled container ships due to be constructed at HHI.

ExxonMobil is moving beyond the trial stage for drop-in biofuels to commercialisation of the product at North European ports.

The port of Long Beach has joined a public-private partnership alliance aimed at developing renewable hydrogen.

The world’s largest bunkering port is developing standards for the bunkering of biofuels both for quality and quantity.

Singapore is backing LNG as a transition fuel for shipping while zero carbon fuels are not yet commercially feasible at scale.