Hyundai Heavy Industries Group (HHI), Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (KSME) succeeded in winning orders for eight vessels worth a total of KRW 1.283.6 trillion.
DNV recently awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) certificate to Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) for a design of an ammonia-fuelled 7,000 CEU PCTC.
Using VesselsValue data, Dan Nash, Head of RoRo, explores the current landscape of the Car Carrier sector after long term recovery from Covid-19, looking at record high rates and a surge in demand. This article highlights China taking the lead in the Car Carrier market.
On March 24, NYK took delivery of Plumeria Leader, a pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) capable of navigating oceans with only LNG as the ship’s main fuel. The vessel was built at the Shin Kurushima Dockyard of Shin Kurushima Toyohashi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.
NYK, MTI, and GRID have started developing a model using AI to optimize the efficiency of ship allocation plans* of pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs).
Fujitsu Limited and NYK announced the introduction of Fujitsu’s quantum-inspired Digital Annealer technology to significantly streamline complex stowage planning for car carriers, leveraging the technology’s world-class combinatorial optimization capabilities.
Construction of the third in a series of ground-breaking newbuild LNG battery hybrid PCTCs for United European Car Carriers (UECC) reached a significant milestone this week with keel-laying at a Chinese yard.
In a major step toward achieving sustainable shipping, the first of three LNG battery hybrid PCTCs commissioned by UECC was launched in an official ceremony Monday 12 April at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.
“K” Line has decided to install IP/MPLS solution with LTE communication proposed by NOKIA as Digital Transformation (DX) solution for ships to our LNG-fueled Pure Car Carrier “CENTURY HIGHWAY GREEN”