Le Commandant Charcot Becomes First LNG-Powered Ship to Reach the North Pole

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

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  Starts 09/22/2020CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoShipbuilding trade press dates the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé's delivery in Shanghai to 22 September 2020.^[1]

  CSSC's Hudong-Zhonghua yard in Shanghai delivered the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, the first of nine 23,000-TEU ships and the world's first ultra-large container vessel powered mainly by liquefied natural gas. At 400 meters long, it became CMA CGM's new flagship.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  LNG Canada Ships First LNG From Kitimat Terminal

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  Starts 07/01/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe first cargo, loaded aboard the GasLog Glasgow, left Kitimat for Asia on 1 July 2025 (Shell's^[2] 'First cargo leaves LNG Canada' release, with CBC^[3] and The Globe and Mail reporting the departure the same day). The previous date of 23 June 2025 was the announcement of first production, with cargo loading still ahead of it.

  Canada's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal, built by a Shell-led joint venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, produced and shipped its first LNG cargo in 2025.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Meyer Werft Delivers the AIDAnova, the World's First LNG-Powered Cruise Ship

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  Starts 12/12/2018CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.8 years agoMeyer Werft’s^[2] own press release "AIDAnova handed over to AIDA Cruises" gives 12 December 2018 as the delivery date, corroborated by Seatrade Cruise^[3] News.

  Meyer Werft handed over the AIDAnova, built at its Papenburg shipyard as the world's first cruise ship able to run on liquefied natural gas, to AIDA Cruises. The 337-metre ship carries up to 6,600 passengers and was assembled from roughly 15 million individual parts.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Maersk Peregrino FPSO Begins Producing Oil at Brazil's Peregrino Field

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  Keppel Shipyard converted the VLCC Maersk Nova into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, and the converted supertanker began pumping oil at the Peregrino field 85km off Rio de Janeiro in April 2011.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm Is Formally Opened in the North Sea

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  Starts 04/30/2015CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE11.4 years agoVattenfall's^[3] press release "DanTysk offshore wind farm formally opened" states the formal opening took place on 30 April 2015 in Hamburg.

  Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Vostok Oil Ships First Crude From Its Arctic Megaport

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  Starts 09/06/2026CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE17 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Rosneft loaded the first cargo onto the... tanker Valentin Pikul after President Vladimir Putin formally commissioned the project on September 6."

  Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Norwegian Epic Delivered as One of the World’s Largest Cruise Ships

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  Starts 06/17/2010CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE16.3 years agoCruise Industry News^[2] reported Norwegian Cruise Line took delivery of Norwegian Epic on 17 June 2010.

  Norwegian Cruise Line took delivery of the 153,000-ton Norwegian Epic from the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, at the time the largest ship ever built there.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  New Wharf Completed at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica

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  Starts 04/16/2020CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE6.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "For the first time, polar ships have moored at a new £40 million wharf".

  BAM completed a new £40 million, 74-metre steel wharf at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station so the new polar vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough could dock and resupply the base.

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  Royal Caribbean Takes Delivery of Symphony of the Seas

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  Starts 03/23/2018CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE8.5 years agoRoyal Caribbean Press Center reported official delivery from STX France on March 23, 2018.^[1]

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

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  Starts 03/29/1910CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE116.5 years agoThe museum's own institute (oceano.org^[2]) and multiple tourism/history sources date its inauguration by Prince Albert I to 29 March 1910.

  Monaco's Prince Albert I inaugurated the Oceanographic Museum, an institution he founded to house his marine research, after eleven years of construction into a cliff face above the Mediterranean. The museum, later directed by Jacques Cousteau, remains one of the world's foremost centres for oceanography.

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  Starts 05/10/1981CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE45.4 years agoWikipedia's^[3] MV Paul R. Tregurtha article gives 10 May 1981 as the ship's maiden voyage, following its 4 February 1981 launch as the William J. DeLancey.

  Launched as the William J. DeLancey and later renamed Paul R. Tregurtha, the Great Lakes' longest ship began hauling cargo with its maiden voyage on 10 May 1981.

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  Starts 06/27/2014CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE12.2 years agoRenewable-energy trade coverage and the plant operator's own materials date the Gorona del Viento^[2] inauguration to 27 June 2014.

  El Hierro's Gorona del Viento plant, combining five wind turbines with a pumped-hydro reservoir, was inaugurated to make the smallest Canary Island the first in the world able to run entirely on renewable energy. Excess wind power pumps water uphill for use when the wind drops.

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