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Isles of Scilly Steamship Group has selected French shipbuilder Piriou as its preferred shipbuilder to build and deliver two new eco-friendly ferries. The post Piriou to build two green ferries for Isles of Scilly appeared first on Offshore Energy. [ad_2] News source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldmaritimenews Go to original post...

The Japanese prefecture of Oita has taken delivery of a passenger hovercraft from a UK-based manufacturer, restoring one of the world's few public hovercraft routes to service after a long hiatus.  Oita's airport used to have a commercially-operated hovercraft, the Oita Hover Ferry, which delivered passengers...

[By: MSC Cruises] The world’s first net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cruise proves that net-zero emissions cruising is possible today, significantly ahead of the 2050 target. MSC Euribia, the newest LNG-powered vessel of MSC Group’s Cruise Division, accomplished the feat using bio-LNG as fuel by...

Maritime cadets have been trained on 50- and 60-year-old ships in the U.S. for too many decades. Well, that’s about to change as obsolete ships at the nation’s state maritime academies are being replaced with five next-generation training ships known as National Security Multi-Mission Vessels...