Damen Shipyards has delivered a barge to aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company Blue Origin. On September 4, the vessel arrived at its home port in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will support Blue Origin’s aerospace operations.

Yara International officially opened its new ammonia import terminal in Brunsbüttel, Germany. Brunsbüttel is located on the North Sea and Kiel Canal, making it an ideal hub for enabling the hydrogen economy in Germany. With the new terminal, Yara has the infrastructure to enable imports of up to three million tonnes of low-emission ammonia to Europe annually.

BMT, in partnership with Strategic Marine, introduces its latest addition to the offshore wind industry: the StratCat35 Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV). This cutting-edge vessel, making its debut at WindEnergy Hamburg, is designed to meet a wider range of operator requirements while placing sustainability at the forefront of the offshore wind sector.

A new White Paper prepared for the Methanol Institute by Dr. Jeroen Dierickx, an energy and fuel expert at iDefossilise, concludes that the FuelEU Maritime Regulation and EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) will create a level playing field for bio- and e-methanol, making them economically competitive compared to fossil marine fuels.

Multiple recent incidents in which naval and commercial vessels ran aground have highlighted the dangers of maritime operations in shallow or poorly charted coastal waters. TCarta Marine of Denver, CO, offers a cost-effective, environmentally safe solution using Earth observation satellites to derive accurate water depth measurements in near-shore areas.

KR (Korean Register) has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) for a Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV), a passenger and cargo transport vessel dedicated to offshore wind farms, developed by MARCON, a Korean maritime service company.

DNV has awarded Hanwha Ocean Type Approval Design Certification (TADC) for its innovative rotor sail technology, the first certification of a rotor sail approved for installation in hazardous zones in South Korea. 

The steel cutting ceremony for the first of four next-generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) that Fincantieri will build for the Italian Navy took place on September 24, at the Riva Trigoso shipyard (Genoa).

All American Marine (AAM) has delivered a cutting-edge 74-foot diesel aluminum hydrofoil catamaran patrol boat to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), complete with a full suite of quality NavNet TZtouch3 Multi-Function Displays (MFDs) from Furuno.

C-Power is announcing that subsea data collection and delivery provider Tiburon Subsea has joined the company’s Partner Engagement and Co-development (PEC) Program as a collaboration partner.

Three new Damen search and rescue vessels have been handed over to Jawar al Khaleej (JAK) in a ceremony held on September 23, at Albwardy Damen in Sharjah, within five months after the contract was signed.

World leaders and representatives from the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel) met at the United Nations (UN) in New York City and officially launched the “100% Alliance”. This initiative calls on all coastal and ocean states to commit to the sustainable management of all ocean areas under national jurisdiction.

Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been contracted to provide marine advisory and marine warranty survey (MWS) services to the AltaGas and Royal Vopak’s joint venture, to support the  Ridley Island Energy Export Facility (REEF) development in Canada. 

Ampelmann has successfully completed the first offshore transfers with its—also first—W-type system onboard the Olympic Boreas Construction Service Operation Vessel (CSOV). The gangway tower system was delivered to Ulstein Verft for installation on the CSOV, designed and built by Ulstein for Olympic.

Strategic Marine has announced that Centus Marine Sdn Bhd, one of Malaysia’s largest Fast Crew Boat operators, has selected Strategic Marine once again to build the next generation of high-speed personnel transfer vessels, developed by AIRCAT.

Specialist provider of offshore support services, Interocean Marine Services (Interocean), has announced it is supporting a groundbreaking floating dock ship project in Ghana, Africa.