The German Government is funding the installation of a Rotor Sail on Baltrader’s new cement carrier CemCommander this summer.

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and WinGD have completed an initial ammonia fuel supply system design for WinGD’s X‑DF‑A engines.

China’s Yantai CIMC Raffles gets approval in principle (AiP) from ABS for a heavy-duty, methanol-dual fuel wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) design.

Singapore-based Ofer family company, Eastern Pacific Shipping, is to install three 22-metre eSails from bound4blue, on board the 2019-built chemical tanker, Pacific Sentinel, later this year.

The idle container ship fleet has contracted again as the crises in the Red Sea and Panama Canal suck capacity into service diversions and distort the market, as newbuildings arrive to alleviate tonnage crunch.

CIMC, COSCO Shipping Kansai, CAI, CXIC, Xchange and Touax Container Leasing are among prominent companies confirmed to exhibit at Intermodal Asia 2024, which will take place from 22 – 24 May 2024 at SWECC, Shanghai.

Chinese automobile manufacturer BYD is planning to put seven new car carriers into operation in the coming two years to meet the growing export demand.

Shipping technology firms ZeroNorth and Alpha Ori Technologies have received regulatory approvals for their merger and will integrate under the brand ZeroNorth.

Container lines and their clients are engaging in their annual pre-contract rate dance, aided, to a certain degree, by analysts’ forecasts on the state of the industry.

SeaLead and Blue Water Line are rolling out a new service connecting Indian ports with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman.