Orient Overseas International Limited (OOIL) has placed orders at Dalian Cosco KHI Ship Engineering and Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering for the construction of seven 23,000 teu containerships.

Hafnia announced that the company had officially ordered two aframax LR2 vessels powered by LNG at Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI).

CSSC Jiangnan Shipyard has delivered the LNG dual fuel 23,000 teu container ship CMA CGM Champs Elysees to its owner CMA CGM.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, Hyundai Glovis, the Liberian Registry, the Korean Register and their partners have received Approval in Principle (AiP) the world’s first Large Size and commercially viable liquified hydrogen carrier.

Hudong Heavy Machinery signed a contract with Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding for the manufacture of two plus eight WinGD 7X52DF engines and LNG gas supply systems.

Japan’s Mitsubishi Shipbuilding has received an approval-in-principle (AiP) by Bureau Veritas (BV) for a LNG fuel gas supply system (FGSS) for marine four-stroke dual fuel engines.

China’s three main shipbuilding indexes have continued to decline during the first nine months of this year.

The Greek newbuilding orderbook is shrinking but the trickle of new contracts being placed for eco-friendly ships, especially energy carrying ships, still makes Greek owners the number one clients for shipbuilders in Asia.

Since the only ship recycling yards capable of dismantling ocean-going merchant vessels approved so far by the EU are in Turkey, and are busy dismantling mostly cruise ships for months to come, shipowners who wish to stick to the letter of the EU...

Greece has finally put Hellenic Shipyards on the sales block, launching a tender to sell the country's biggest shipyard now under special administration.