Finnish cleantech company Norsepower has signed an agreement with Luxembourg-based shipping group CLdN to install two tilting rotor sails onboard a 2018-built vessel.

The southern hemisphere’s first fully electric, carbon fibre commuter ferry has successfully completed its inaugural round trip with a Thordon seawater lubricated propeller shaft arrangement supplied by New Zealand’s Henley Engineering.

Norwegian ferry operator Norled has contracted compatriot shipyard Havyard Leirvik to convert its MF Ibestad ferry to electric operation with hybrid capacity in line with the green shift.

The LNG carrier Elisa Aquila, commercially managed by France LNG Shipping, was delivered to Italian energy player Edison that chartered the ship under a long-term contract