HMS Agamemnon enters sea trials, marking a key milestone for the Astute programme as construction of the final boat, Achilles, progresses at Barrow.

Leonardo DRS secures a propulsion role on South Korea's KDDX programme, the navy's first destroyer class to feature full-electric drive.

HII’s Odyssey autonomy system has completed US Navy evaluation at sea, including a 420nm, 28-hour mission, leading to an order for 10 ROMULUS uncrewed surface vessels. 

Experience is crucial to the retrofitting of dual fuel engines, but a vessel’s readiness for that transition can simplify the project substantially. Since 2025 Seaspan and its partners in Everllence and COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry, have honed their skills.

Meeting early net zero targets can be achieved successfully without breaking the bank. Odfjell shows how it cut the cost of cutting emissions.

Safety is critical in shipyards, but repairs still carry an element of risk. Renewed guidelines are there to help mitigate those risks.

Carbon capture and storage is expected to play a major role in the decarbonisation of shipping and other industries. Whether that captured carbon is sent for permanent storage or is purified for further industrial use, specialist vessels will need to be built to ship the gas.

Converting LNG gas tankers to floating LNG storage units is a complex business. It requires merging ship design with LNG industry processing equipment arrangements, with stability and weight key issues.

Data centres are a drain on critical power and water supplies, raising concerns about competing costs for resources. Floating data centres can solve many of the concerns around this technology.

The Royal Navy has completed a six-week AUKUS Pillar 2 trial with the US and Royal Australian Navies, testing uncrewed technology to protect critical undersea infrastructure off the US coasts and southwestern Australia. 

QinetiQ has installed an additive manufacturing facility at HM Naval Base Clyde, enabling submarine components to be printed and delivered dockside on demand.

Naval architects face a compressed design programme under the UK's £300bn Defence Investment Plan, which replaces the Type 83 destroyer with the Common Combat Vessel, a hybrid warship coordinating four new uncrewed classes.