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.

BW LNG, a unit of the Singapore-based gas shipping BW Group, has begun working on its El Salvador FSRU conversion process.

The new green recycling facility proposed for Saldanha Bay in South Africa may give owners another option sometime in the future, but for the moment, recycling end-of life ships in today’s multi-tier market is a major headache for ship operators.