HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) won a 1.24-trillion-won ($937.36 million) contract to construct five massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) container ships for a Taiwanese shipper. HD KSOE, the intermediate shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai, said Thursday it has inked an agreement with Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation, a Taiwanese container shipping company to build five 15,500 twenty-foot equivalent unit LNG-powered vessels. They will measure 365 meters (1,200 feet) in length, 51 meters in width, and 29.85 meters in height. The construction will take place at HD ...

The aim of this new type of vessel is not only to provide a solution for supplying biofuels, but also to help decarbonize the naval industry by mitigating and reducing the emissions from its fleets. The design is set up for different propulsion alternatives (conventional, diesel-electric or hybrid), different sulfate cleaning systems (open, closed or mixed) and features an innovative CO2 capture system. The Sener technology and engineering group successfully completed the conceptual design of a new model of sustainable tanker to supply biofuels during bunkering operations. The company, with ...

Damen Shipyards Group has unveiled the latest vessel in its Compact Tugs product platform. The ASD Tug 2111 joins the ASD Tug 2312 in the innovative range, combining proven technology with innovation to advance safety, sustainability, reliability, and efficiency. Siebe Cieraad, Damen Product Portfolio manager explains the thinking behind this next generation series of tugs. “As sea-going ships continue to increase in size, new challenges are arising in ports. Tugs are required to operate – safely – with less space, at the same time needing increased power to perform. This ...

CIMAC is the global platform for the dialogue amongst researcher, engine designer, manufacturer, and engine users in the large engine industry. The 30th CIMAC World Congress will take place from 12 – 16 June 2023 in Busan, Korea. At this congress, Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) will present two papers on the latest technological strategies on UE engine and the development status of Ammonia fueled engines. The titles and key points of the papers are as follows; Title: The latest technological development of the J-ENG UE engine for zero emission and ...

Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) has started development of the UEC60LSH type engine in order to strengthen the lineup of the latest “LSH” series. UEC60LSH is the successor model of UEC60LSE type engine, which has been used by a lot of customers for many years. Based on the result of thorough hearing with customers, UEC60LSH is optimized for various types of vessel, VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier), Capesize bulk carrier, coal carrier, car carrier and so on. UEC60LSH has the same features of ultra-low fuel consumption, compact dimensions and a wide ...

The use of 3D ‘digital twins’ for class approval represents a milestone in our ongoing focus on applying digitalisation to increase productivity and shorten the calendar time for ship design, writes Joonas Määttänen, project engineer at Deltamarin’s concept design department. Designing ships in a 3D digital environment is not in itself new. We already use advanced CAD software in our everyday work, and these applications get better with every new release. However, what we can’t yet do is to use the 3D models themselves for the classification approval process, where ...

Benefiting from the rapid development of the international shipping industry, Chinese shipbuilders have undertaken a large number of new orders from all over the world. Benefiting from the rapid development of the international shipping industry, Chinese shipbuilders have undertaken a large number of new orders from all over the world. A visit to several large shipyards in Shanghai revealed a sharp increase in new orders. Lin Qingshan, vice general manager of Jiangnan Shipbuilding of China Shipbuilding Group, said that so far the orders for civilian ships have reached around 30 ...

Malaysia has set a goal to become a shipbuilding and ship repair (SBSR) hub in Asia, according to the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA). In its recent statement, MIDA said the SBSR industry will be built and developed within a dynamic ecosystem where diverse stakeholders collaborate to design, construct, maintain, and upgrade vessels. This interconnected network forms the foundation for resilience and growth by leveraging smart solutions, seamless technologies and industry 4.0 advancements to construct modern and eco-friendly vessels. With the extension of tax incentives and import duty exemptions until ...

A large-scale offshore oil production base, which can process 220,000 barrels of crude oil per day, was delivered to the coastal city of Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning Province on Friday. Named Bacalhau, the M350 floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) hull was jointly developed by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. (DSIC) and Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Company. The FPSO is a high-end large-scale offshore engineering base designed to exploit deep-sea oilfields. It can undertake preliminary processing such as sediment filtration, oil-gas separation, oily sewage treatment and storage, and ...

The hull and living quarters of the Bacalhau — the world’s first M350 floating, production, storage and offloading vessel — were delivered on Friday at the Changxingdao shipyard in Dalian, Liaoning province, marking a breakthrough for the Chinese shipbuilding industry. The vessel has been jointly designed and built by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co, a subsidiary of State-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corp, and FPSO contractor Modec for international energy company Equinor, which is headquartered in Norway. The FPSO is a comprehensive, large-scale offshore oil production base that integrates personnel living quarters ...

Shipbuilders are seeing an increasing number of foreign workers deserting their jobs and escaping from the shipyards, according to industry officials, Wednesday, who also said the aggravated labor shortages are making it harder for the shipbuilders to meet the growing global demand for vessels. In late April, seven Thai nationals holding E-7 visas disappeared from HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) shipyard in Ulsan, just a week after they started working as temporary employees for the company. Two other Thai E-7 visa holders, who were hired by a subcontractor of the ...

The hull and living quarters of the world’s first M350 floating, production, storage and offloading vessel — Bacalhau — was delivered on Friday in Changxingdao, Dalian, Liaoning province. It was jointly designed and built by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co, a subsidiary of State-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corp and FPSO contractor and owner Modec for international energy company Equinor, which is headquartered in Norway. The M350 FPSO features a hull about 350 meters long. The new vessel’s material scale and scale parameters make it the largest in the world, with a ...

After the successful delivery of the first two of eight LABRAX vessels, MV Vertom Patty and MV Vertom Cyta, Thecla Bodewes Shipyards announces the unveiling of the SALMO series at Nor-Shipping 2023 in Oslo – Norway. The SALMO series is the shipyard’s latest product line of innovative Diesel-Electric Propelled Dry Cargo Vessels of 5,000dwt and 6,500dwt. [ Kampen-The Netherlands, 26 May 2023 ] Thecla Bodewes Shipyards presents its diverse range of dry cargo vessels, shallow draft pushers, innovative dredgers and special service vessels for the inland and shortsea shipping industry ...

Keppel Corporation is intensifying its efforts in the production and use of green hydrogen and ammonia as low-carbon energy sources through joining a consortium to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project in Australia and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL) on an industrial-scale green ammonia production facility in Australia. Central Queensland hydrogen (CQ-H2) project consortium As part of Keppel’s strategic plan to participate and capitalise on the projected growth of the hydrogen economy, especially in helping decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors, Keppel has signed an ...

GTT announces the signature of a Technical Services Agreement (TSA) with the leading shipping and maritime company Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) and its Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) affiliate CoolCo. As part of this agreement, GTT will support EPS and CoolCo with the maintenance and operation of a global fleet of 33 vessels, including 24 LNG carriers operated by CoolCo, six Very Large Ethane Carriers and three LNG-fuelled container ships operated by EPS, all equipped with Mark III or NO96 membrane containment systems technologies developed by GTT. This TSA includes GTT ...