Qatar Gas Transport Company Limited (Nakilat) has announced the naming of nine new vessels at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hanwha Ocean, and HD Hyundai Samho shipyards in South Korea. The vessels include seven LNG carriers (Al Ghuwair, Al Jazi, Al Mirzam, Maqdeem, Al Nasraniya, Energy Vigour, and Energy Voyager) and two LPG/ammonia carriers (Energy South and Energy East). As previously reported by ship.energy, LPG/ammonia carrier Energy North was named in September. Five of the seven LNG carriers named form part of Nakilat’s program to build 25 conventional-size LNG carriers at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hanwha Ocean. These 25 vessels […]

The 53 orders for alternative fuelled vessels last month marked a 77% increase on the 30 that were registered in October 2025, according to the latest figures from DNV’s Alternative Fuels Insight (AFI) platform. LNG accounted for 30 of October’s orders of which 18 were for containerships. The remaining 12 were for car carriers. The month also saw 19 orders for LPG carriers while four ammonia-fuelled car carriers were added to the database. The latest figures bring the total number of alternative-fuelled vessels ordered in 2026 to 364, 57% higher than over the same period in 2025. LNG continues to […]

A new whitepaper from MariNH3 on the take-up of ammonia as a marine fuel has indicated that a ‘diesel-based dual fuel approach is likely to be adopted on larger vessels’, while ‘the new spark-ignited approach, probably as a mono fuel system that creates its own hydrogen on board from the ammonia, may be better suited to smaller vessels’. MariNH3 flagged up that the dual-fuel approach on large vessels has been bolstered as dual-fuel two-stroke engines have already undergone sea trials, and ‘larger four-stroke engines have demonstrated the ability to achieve high levels of ammonia substitution with only a small requirement […]