A pair of hydrogen-powered ferries to be built at Norway’s Myklebust Verft for Tromsø-based Torgatten Nord will be classed by Lloyd’s Register (LR). The ships’ design was granted Approval in Principle (AiP) by the classification society in August…

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) has set up a new education programme for seafarers. With support from a number of universities around the world, the BSM Smart Academy is intended to close the gap between academic knowledge and practical…

MAN Energy Solutions has clinched an order for three dual-fuel methanol gensets for a 7,990dwt IMO Type II chemical bunker tanker, due for delivery in the final quarter of 2025. The three MAN 6L21/31DF-M engines will be part of a diesel-electric…

Ohio-based Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) is to recoat the cargo tanks of two Gulf Navigation-owned chemical tankers at China’s IMC Shipyard in Zhoushan, with APC providing specialist on-the-ground guidance led by its China-based engineering team.

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The 30,285gt 2002-built RoPax ferry Atlantic Vision drydocked at Denmark’s Fayard ship repair facility in Munkebo on April 17th after completing a long-term bareboat charter to Canadian ferry operator Marine Atlantic. Owned by Baltic SF IX, a…

The former Fred Olsen Cruise Line-owned vessel Braemar arrived at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast on April 26th for her conversion into the residential cruise vessel Villa Vie Odyssey. The vessel arrived in Belfast from the Scottish port of…

The problems of running a lifeline ferry service with an ageing fleet and a punishing year-round service schedule are only too evident at Scotland’s largest ferry company, Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac). CalMac’s 31-year old RoPax ferry Caledonian…