Tag: world’s first

Global energy and commodity pricing service Argus Media along with the classification society DNV GL, joined forcers and launched industry's first online platform for green ammonia.

The technology group Wärtsilä along with Brazil-based offshore operator, CBO, joined forces for Latin America’s first hybrid vessel upgrade initiative.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ABS issued a guide for 'Mitigation of Infectious Disease Transmission On Board Marine and Offshore Assets', including an industry's first introduction of a notation indicating compliance with the standards.

The world's first blade walk by a robot on an offshore wind turbine took place in UK in mid-October, when the six-legged inspect-and-repair robot BladeBUG repeatedly scaled blades at ORE Catapult’s 7MW Levenmouth Demonstration turbine off the coast of Fife.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the major disruption that has brought within cruising, Viking Line completed installation of the first full-scale PCR laboratory at sea.

Classification society Korean Register has granted an AiP to South Korean company Hyundai Glovis for the world's first basic design of a 20,000㎥-class commercial liquefied hydrogen carrier developed jointly with domestic shipbuilders, Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Mipo Shipbuilding. 

The global containership management company, Seaspan Corporation secured a $1.8 billion sustainability-linked loan (SLL), the first of its kind in the containership leasing industry.

South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) unveiled a world's first robot using standardized big data and artificial intelligence to support metalworking, including cold working and hot working processes.

Following a near-fatal accident involving one of their workers back in December 2017, Maritime NZ has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) from the stevedoring company, ISO Limited.

Tokyo-based Asahi Tanker Co., Ltd. has placed orders for two of the world’s first zero-emission electric-powered tankers, to powered completely by large-capacity lithium ion batteries, the company announced.