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LR announced that it has joined the Quadriga sustainable shipping project – an initiative from Hamburg-based Sailing Cargo, which aims to build the world’s biggest sailing cargo ship using hybrid technology for CO2 emissions reduction. 

BLRT Group informed that the world's largest ship Dockwise Vanguard transports the company's floating dock from Montenegro to Lithuania, Klaipeda, where it will be installed at the Western Shipyard owned by BLRT Grupp.

While on her maiden voyage, the 20,568 TEU “Munich Maersk”, currently one of the largest container ships in the world, berthed at EUROGATE Container Terminal Hamburg, on 5 August. The ship belongs to the second generation of Maersk Line’s Triple-E class and calls Hamburg as part of the AE5 service of the 2M alliance.

Orient Overseas Container Line has appointed Shell Marine to provide marine lubricants and services for OOCL Hong Kong, currently the world’s largest container ship, with a capacity of 21,413 TEUs, measuring 400m. The G-type engine design used in the ship requires close oil performance monitoring and technical support.

Shell is exercising its right under the charter agreement to purchase the FPSO Turritella in Gulf of Mexico, the deepest FPSO development in the world, according to an official statement by SBM Offshore.

Wärtsilä announced that it will supply its low voltage switchboards for the world’s first offshore reactive compensation station. The Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, operated by DONG Energy, is currently under construction at Babcock Rosyth in Scotland and, upon completion, it will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.

The port of Rotterdam issued an infographic, illustrating the different cargo types handled at its quays. The port still remains the largest port of Europe, in terms of throughput capacity. In 2016, its total capacity was over twice that of Antwerp, the number 2 port.

According to data from the Alphaliner, the biggest container shipping company by number of chartered and owned ships in its fleet is Denmark- based APM-Maersk, with currently 636 ships in service. The second largest fleet is run by MSC. The top-five is completed by France-based CMA-CGM, Chinese COSCO and German-Chilean Hapag-Lloyd.

The world's largest container ship, the 21,413 TEU OOCL Hong Kong, has made its maiden call at Hutchison, Port of Felixstowe, UK. The call represented a double celebration, as it also marked the return of OOCL to the UK's largest container port after a 17 year absence.

China is known for investing more each year in wind, hydro and solar power than any other country on earth. In early June, it further underlined its role as the global leader in renewable energy, by switching on the world’s largest floating solar power plant, according to the World Economic Forum .