Shipyard News

A spate of new home and foreign orders for electric and solar-powered boats is keeping German Baltic shipyard Ostseestaal busy – and the interest is not expected to decline soon, reports Tom…

The construction of Germany’s first sea-going research ship with methanol propulsion is underway as details of some of its principal components are revealed, writes Tom Todd

A powerful new 17.3m patrol boat has joined the German police fleet monitoring international shipping along 900kms of the central Rhine and its linked canals, reports Tom Todd.

COVID-19 hasn’t slowed the ferry modernisation plans of one ambitious industry player.

Damen is constructing the fully electric RSD-E Tug 2513, named ‘Sparky’, for New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland.

The NG-16000X is an optimized, self-propelled turbine installation jack-up vessel design that features increased carrying and lifting capacity.

A home-grown ship design and build partnership will supply 18 state-of-the-art high-speed patrol vessels to the UK Ministry of Defence Police.

A prominent Danish supplier of rescue boats and life saving equipment has reached an agreement to supply additional ambulance boats to the Hellenic Coastguard, after a formal contract signing.

The DP3 Cable Laying Vessel, ‘Nexans Aurora’, was named at Norway’s Ulstein Verft on 8 June 2021.

Construction has commenced on what’s claimed to be the world’s first fully electric passenger fast ferry at the Fjellstrand shipyard on the west coast of Norway.

Singapore shipyard Strategic Marine has successfully delivered a pair of 27m CTVs to WEM Marine Ltd, a UK-based offshore support vessel provider.

BMT designs for new passenger and cargo vessels have been revealed for the first time.

European maritime majors have signed a historic contract to build what they claim is the first inland waterway vessel propelled by a hydrogen fuel cell.

The world’s first very large catamaran dual-fuel ro-pax ferry has entered service.

An unusual hybrid workboat for the Port of Hamburg is under build at Germany’s Hitzler Werft, reports Tom Todd.

Rostock is expecting the delivery of its first emission-free, electric-solar driven catamaran ferry in July, writes Tom Todd.

‘Svitzer Oued Martil’ is a new 15m Interceptor 48 Pilot for pilotage operations in Tangier, Morocco and is the third pilot boat Safehaven Marine has supplied to Svitzer in Tangier.

A new 29ft pilot boat is proving an economical investment for a UK port.

A new hybrid water-injection dredger that uses a hybrid energy management system to reduce emissions has launched a programme of work on the River Thames.