BIMCO says that its Energy Saving Device Retrofit Addendum will provide a new contractual framework that can ‘facilitate the installation of energy saving devices during the period of a time charter’. In a statement posted on its website today (21 October), the shipping association said that the Addendum will ‘provide owners and charterers with a flexible mechanism for agreeing how the costs, time, fuel-saving benefits and environmental benefits associated with retrofit projects should be allocated between them’. BIMCO said that the Addendum – which has been ‘deliberately drafted as a technology-neutral framework capable of accommodating a broad range of current […]

Wilhelmsen Ship Management has welcomed the latest methanol dual-fuel Shaper Class pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) to its managed fleet. The Royal Tern follows the delivery of the Arctic Tern that was completed in July. In addition to its methanol dual-fuel propulsion, the Royal Tern features a range of technologies designed to support energy efficiency and environmental performance, including an air lubrication system, energy storage battery system and AMP shore power connection. ‘We wish Royal Tern and her crew fair winds and following seas,’ Wilhelmsen Ship Management said in a social media post today (19 October). As previously reported by […]

Finnish marine propulsion specialist Steerprop has announced it is to supply the latest version of its contra-rotating propeller (CRP) technology to a fully electric ferry being built by Polish shipyard CRIST SA for the Estonian State Fleet. As previously reported by ship.energy, the vessel, said to be Estonia’s first fully-electric passenger ferry, will be powered by a shore-charged battery system alongside auxiliary biodiesel generators for severe weather and emergency operations when it enters operation in 2028. It will be propelled by two Steerprop SP 25 CRP units featuring permanent magnet motor drives. The ferry will also be the first to […]