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Dec 2019
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DNV GL has entered into a Joint Development Project (JDP) with Huangpu-Wenchong Shipbuilding Company (HPWS) on a 5,000 TEU Panamax LNG dual-fuel containership.
Dec 2019
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MAN Energy Solutions, the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) and classification society ABS are teaming up to develop designs for a low-emission 2,700 TEU Chittagongmax feeder container vessel.
Dec 2019
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Hurtigruten has announced that its new hybrid battery powered expedition cruise ship MS Fridtjof Nansen has completed it sea trials and will be ready to start operations earlier than expected.
Dec 2019
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Avenir LNG has announced that Milorad Doljanin will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer with effect from 13 December.
Dec 2019
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The energy efficient dual fuel very large crude carrier (VLCC) design, which features rotor sails, has received approval in principle from Lloyd’s Register and ABS.
Dec 2019
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With the new IMO 2020 start-date now less than a month away, maritime consultancy Drewry has published its first low-sulphur reference bunker index tracker.
Dec 2019
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CMA CGM has signed an agreement with Total for the supply of around 270,000 metric tonnes (mt) a year of LNG over 10 years.
Dec 2019
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Repsol has announced that it aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 – and it believes it is ‘the first oil and gas company in the world to assume this ambitious goal’.
Dec 2019
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- Written by Lesley Bankes-Hughes
The class society says it has developed the ‘Gas fuelled LPG’ notation in anticipation of growing interest in the use of LPG as fuel.
Dec 2019
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Consuttancy firm Drewry has reported that underlying ship operating costs ‘accelerated moderately in 2019’ and are likely to continue rising in 2020 on the back of increased insurance spend, higher repair and maintenance bills and a ‘spike in retrofit activity’.
