Recently delivered vessels include a Ro-Ro ship and a shortsea vessel for two Faroese owners, a German-operated cement carrier, and two LNG-fuelled PCTCs for customers in Greece and Norway. All but one of the vessels featured were built in China.
China's Zhenjiang Shipyard delivered the self-unloading cement carrier Cemclover to a German owner on October 9, after which the vessel set sail.
Cemclover is the fourth 5,650DWT cement carrier constructed by the yard for the owner, which the newbuilding orderbook identifies as Hamburg-based Baltrader. The yard said it participated in the detailed design.
The vessel has a length overall of 113.4 metres (372 feet), a moulded beam of 15.4 metres (50.5 feet), a moulded depth of 8.4 metres (27.6 feet) and a design draught of six metres (19.7 feet). Gross tonnage is 4,322. The builder reported a speed of 11.35 knots.
Zhenjiang Shipyard said the vessel can discharge cement automatically at 250 tonnes per hour and load at 500 tonnes per hour.
Netherlands-based Royal T Shipyards has delivered the shortsea cargo vessel Hav Fles to Faroese operator Navigare Shipping following the completion of sea trials.
Navigare said the handover took place in Kampen in the Netherlands on Wednesday, October 21. The vessel was then to proceed to Rotterdam to load her first cargo before entering commercial service.
Hav Fles is the second in a series of four vessels ordered by Navigare. Sister vessel Hav Leiti is already in service, while construction of the remaining two ships continues.
Four generators supply the vessel's propulsion in a diesel-electric configuration, allowing power generation to be matched to operational demand. The builder said she can remain underway using one generator during certain emergency situations.
Greek shipping company the Neptune Group has taken delivery of Nikos Travlos, a 4,200CEU, LNG dual-fuel pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) built by Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding in Fuzhou, China.
The vessel is the second of four 4,200CEU ships being built for Neptune under a fleet renewal programme.
Nikos Travlos has an LOA of 177.8 metres, a beam of 33.4 metres, a draught of 8.65 metres, a deadweight of 13,393, and a gross tonnage of 55,492. The vessel is classed by DNV.
Her dual-fuel propulsion can run on LNG or conventional fuels, and she is also fitted with a 500kWh battery and solar panels.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has taken delivery of the pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) Royal Tern from China's CMHI Jinling for operation by its subsidiary EUKOR.
The 87,700GT, 9,300CEU vessel is the second in a series of seven methanol dual-fuel ships ordered at the yard, with deliveries scheduled through the fourth quarter of 2027.
The newbuild followed lead ship Arctic Tern, which was delivered in July.
CMHI Jinling is also building seven larger 11,700CEU, LNG dual-fuel PCTCs of 108,900 GT for delivery through the fourth quarter of 2028. Wallenius Wilhelmsen is negotiating for at least four additional 11,700CEU newbuildings.
Faroese operator Smyril Line took delivery of the Ro-Ro vessel Akranes from CIMC Raffles in Yantai, China, on Friday, October 16.
The 3,300-lane-metre vessel is the second of two Ro-Ro cargo ships ordered by the company. Smyril Line said Akranes is scheduled to depart China next week, bound for Europe.
The delivery voyage is expected to take approximately six weeks. That would place the vessel's arrival in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands in early December.
Akranes is the earlier vessel in the construction sequence.
