NYK BECOMES FIRST JAPANESE PARTNER IN GCMD
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) have signed a five-year Strategic Partnership agreement, to further boost the centre’s capacity and efforts to conduct pilots and trials of low-carbon solutions to provide...
WASTEFUEL AND BP SIGN BIO-METHANOL MoU
US company WasteFuel has announced an agreement with bp to collaborate on improving renewable fuel production for the maritime transportation sector. WasteFuel was founded to solve two growing global crises: the need to decarbonise transportation as quickly as...
PROPELLER DEVICE IMPROVES CII AND EEXI RATINGS
Greece-based sustainable maritime equipment provider Erma First has launched a new energy saving device (ESD) that promises reduced fuel consumption and emissions in line with CII and EEXI requirements. With ship owners seeking practical and cost-effective tools to...
VARD DELIVERS SECOND HYBRID SOV
The ‘Grampian Derwent’ Service Operation Vessel (SOV), second of an order for fours vessels, has been delivered from Vard Vung Tau in Vietnam to North Star. The SOV has been purpose designed and built to support operations and maintenance (O&M) work at...
GEN2 ENERGY AND PROVARIS TO DEVELOP EUROPEAN H2 SUPPLY CHAIN
Gen2 Energy of Norway and Australian company Provaris Energy have signed a collaboration agreement which aims to conduct a comprehensive prefeasibility study to determine the technical and economic viability of producing and supplying compressed green hydrogen from...
MPA AND MPA SIGN ‘SILK ALLIANCE’ DECARBONISATION MoU
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub (LR MDH) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at collaborating on a fleet-specific decarbonisation strategy and implementation plan for ‘The Silk...
MIDDLE EAST DRYDOCK OFFERS CARBON-SAVING COATING
Oman shiprepair yard Asyad Drydock, part of Asyad Group, says that it has applied a high-quality nano-epoxy coating to Asyad Shipping’s Ultramax bulk carrier, ‘Jabal Al Kawr’. This new coating technology had previously been applied for the first time in...
YARA AI-BASED EFFICIENCY PROJECT CONCLUDES
Yara Marine Technologies, Molflow, and academics from Chalmers University of Technology, Halmstad University and Gothenburg University have concluded a three-year project aimed at developing an AI-based semi-autonomous system for ships to enable more energy efficient...