Deliveries include a survey boat for US inland waters and two buoy tenders for a Russian state-owned operator. A large Russian icebreaker wraps up its first series of sea trials as a new hydrogen-powered houseboat nears completion in Germany. Construction meanwhile begins on an electric cargo vessel to serve the Port of Singapore and a fisheries research ship ordered by a German science institute.
Alabama boatbuilder Silver Ships recently delivered a new hydrographic survey catamaran vessel to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
J.D. Mackin will be operated by the USACE Detroit District. It will support hydrographic surveying operations critical to the USACE’s mission of maintaining navigable waterways and ensuring infrastructure integrity.
The catamaran features a hull optimised for stability and precision in surveying missions. The vessel features twin Mercury SeaPro outboards and a Furuno navigation suite. Its versatile configuration includes advanced sonar and mapping systems.
German builder Kiebitzberg Schiffswerft recently held a naming ceremony for Kingfisher, a new houseboat fitted with a hydrogen propulsion system.
The propulsion system also includes a Torqeedo Deepblue engine and an 80kWh battery.
The houseboat will undergo additional testing up until its scheduled delivery in February 2025, when it will sail over 1,000 kilometres from Kiebitzberg Schiffswerft's Havelburg facilities to its new owner in Bavaria.
Baltic Shipyard, a company under Russia's state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, has completed conducting builder's sea trials of a new Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker.
Yakutia is the fourth icebreaker to be built under Project 22220, which was originally designed in the 1990s to replace Russia's ageing fleet of icebreakers, nearly all of which were still dependent on 1960s technology.
Singapore-based marinEV, a business of technology company Yinson GreenTech (YGT), has commissioned design work to be undertaken on a new all-electric, light cargo transfer vessel.
The vessel, which will be named Hydromover 2.0, will transport light cargo such as stores, food and maintenance items to vessels anchored in the Singapore Strait, waiting to dock at the Port of Singapore. The vessel will be a successor of YGT's earlier Hydromover.
The Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, a research institute based in Germany, has confirmed that the keel of a future research vessel set to join its fleet has been laid at a shipyard in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
The vessel will be named Walther Herwig in honour of a German lawyer and fisheries research pioneer. Upon completion of the hull in Klaipeda, it will be transported to the facilities of German shipyard Fassmer for completion.
Saint Petersburg-based shipbuilder Kingisepp Machine-Building Plant recently handed over two new buoy tenders in a series ordered from the company by Rechvodput, the federal inland waterway transport agency of the Russian government.
Styerkh and Cibis belong to the Project 3050.1A series of 13 buoy tenders built by Kingisepp Machine-Building Plant to a design by the Gorky Central Design Bureau.