Hartman Seatrade ordered the Hartman Class 500 from Rock Shipbuilding—a 500-ton heavy lifter with 19.5-knot speed, 4,600 mt deadweight, battery-electric mode and shore power port ops.
BigLift Shipping B.V. expects m/v BigLift Pioneer to enter service toward end-2026 after a 2025 keel laying with CY Shipping, extending a partnership formed in 2019 and expanding the joint HTV platform.
Chipolbrok has ordered four 60,800 dwt heavy-lift MPP vessels at Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering, adding capacity for project and wind energy cargoes while meeting IMO Tier III and EEDI Phase III standards.
COSCO Shipping Specialised Carriers has approved four 40,000 DWT multipurpose heavy-lift newbuildings at CSSC Chengxi, targeting 2028–2029 delivery to support wind and project cargo transport.
AIRPLAYER has loaded two LPS 600 units at Rostock and sailed on 22 December for Brindisi, Italy, with arrival scheduled for 2 January 2026.
SAL adds MV Sophie, a new Type F500 multipurpose vessel owned by Auerbach Schifffahrt GmbH & Co. KG, to its fleet under a long-term charter.
Krey Schiffahrt will deploy Inmarsat Maritime’s bonded NexusWave service on four newbuild heavy lift vessels, enabling always-on connectivity with unlimited data for operations and crew.
AAL Australia redeployed AAL Dampier on a tramp charter to move oversized plant components from Sattahip to Dampier, supporting Project Ceres in Western Australia.
The 32,000 dwt AAL HAMBURG has transported 16 bulk-commodity barges, totalling 80,000 freight tons, from Brazil to Uruguay in a single sailing to support ore logistics on the Paraguay–Paraná Waterway.
