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The next milestones in the construction of the LNG-fuelled Viking Glory at the XSI shipyard in Xiamen, China, will be further testing of the Azipod propulsion system, cooling the LNG tanks and supplying LNG bunkers for the first test sailings, which are planned for June.

Vitol’s V-Bunkers has been named as top Bunker Craft Operator- Quality Standards & Assurance at the 2021 Singapore International Maritime Awards.

Marine consultancy Knud E. Hansen has unveiled the X-gas Project, a series of ‘innovative and unconventional’, medium-capacity LNG bunker tankers.

Klaveness Combination Carriers’ (KCC) CLEANBU vessel, Barramundi, has completed its second shipment of spodumene concentrate from Western Australia to China to be used in the manufacture of lithium batteries for a range of applications, including transportation.

A new fleet of diesel/battery electric pushboats currently being built for Hidrovias do Brasil at the Belov Engenharia Shipyard will be providing terminal assistance on the Amazon River system.

A total of 1,269,605 metric tonnes (mt) of marine fuel was sold in Panama during the first three months of the year – 7.2% down on the 1,368,318 mt that were sold in the same period in 2020.

Wärtsilä Voyage has been contracted to deliver radio and integrated navigation systems for 10 icebreaking LNG-fuelled tankers that are to be built for the Arctic LNG-2 project.

Lloyd’s Register’s Maritime Decarbonisation Hub and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, along with A.P. Moller-Maersk, MAN Energy Solutions, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, NYK Line and Total, have formed a new project aimed at developing guidance on the safe use of ammonia as bunker fuel.

BAR Technologies (BARTech) and Yara Marine will be working together to make the WindWings wind-assisted propulsion technology available to the maritime community.

The Port of Gdynia Authority has announced that a new public ferry terminal, which will feature cold ironing facilities, will be completed in June.