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Responding to the announcement from climate NGO Opportunity Green earlier this week that it is filing complaints to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) against international cruise companies over their promotion of LNG as a ‘green fuel’, SEA-LNG has sent a statement to Bunkerspot maintaining that: ‘The cruise industry fuel choices must be guided by credible research and scientific consensus, not ideology’.

With the completion of shore power installation on Volendam, Holland America Line’s entire fleet is now shore power-capable.

QatarEnergy has signed an agreement with Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of 17 ‘ultra-modern’ LNG carriers.

Caterpillar Marine has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore-headquartered Strategic Marine to develop new solutions to support emissions-reduction goals for future vessel designs.

Alma Clean Power, Odfjell and DNV have announced that a project to develop a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system for deep sea shipping will now move to a testing phase.

Skarv Shipping Solutions - a joint venture between Peak Group and Grieg Edge - has announced it has signed a contract with Huanghai Shipbuilding for up to eight 7,000 DWT, low-carbon multi-purpose vessels.

Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has announced it will equip the Ville de Bordeaux – a Ro-Ro vessel it uses to transport aircraft subassemblies for Airbus – with bound4blue’s eSAILs.

As the shipping industry is today (28 September) marking World Maritime Day with its central theme of ‘MARPOL at 50’, the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (INTERCARGO) has reaffirmed its commitment to the full implementation of MARPOL regulations onboard dry bulk carriers.

In an article posted on its website today, the classification society Bureau Veritas says that biofuels are ‘easily adaptable to existing vessels’ and a ‘promising turnkey transitional fuel’ for shipping – but there are practical and technical issues that have to be considered.

A new report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) on the ‘shadow fleet’ used by Russia to transport its oil, thus circumventing sanctions, finds that there is little evidence that such a fleet is ‘co-ordinated’, but it notes that the volume of Russian oil carried by ‘shadow’ tankers has more than doubled since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.