ABS ESTABLISHES NEW SOFTWARE SUBSIDIARY
ABS has announced the launch of ABS Wavesight, a new maritime software as a service (SaaS) company dedicated to helping shipowners and operators streamline compliance while maintaining competitive, more efficient, and sustainable operations. ABS Wavesight combines the...
LOW-EMISSION CTV DESIGN LAUNCHES TO US OFFSHORE WIND SECTOR
Marine engineering consultancy BAR Technologies (BAR), is to make its low emission CTV design, the BARTech 30, available for the first US offshore wind projects in 2024, following tenders from several US shipyards. BAR is setting up license agreements that will see...
LR AWARDS AiP FOR AUTONOMOUS ZERO EMISSION BOXSHIP
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has granted Approval in Principle (AiP) to Zulu Associates, a Belgian company involved in innovative marine components of logistic chains, working with its subsidiary Anglo Belgian Shipping Company, for its novel Zulu Mass vessel design. The AiP...
DAMEN AND WINDCAT TO BUILD HYDROGEN-FUELLED CSOVS
Offshore personnel transfer company Windcat has placed an order for the construction of a series of hydrogen-powered Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs), with Damen Shipyards. The ‘Elevation Series’ CSOVs have been designed by Damen Shipyards...
MINI-TUG DESIGN USES BATTERY POWER
US companies Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) and Miller Marine have teamed to design and construct a fully electric truckable tug, which is purposefully designed as a multi-functional utility boat servicing marine construction sites, tending dredges, tending buoys,...
HYDROGEN REFORMERS SPECIFIED FOR METHANOL/ FUEL CELL POWERED TOWBOAT
US gas generator company Rix Industries has been awarded a significant contract by Maritime Partners, a privately held financing and leasing solutions for the US maritime industry. The company’s fleet of over 1,600 vessels transports commodities including agricultural...
WÄRTSILÄ REPOWERS INLAND PUSHER VESSEL TO CUT EMISSIONS
Wärtsilä is to carry out what it believes to be the most complete re-powering project ever performed on an inland waterway vessel, retrofitting the ‘Herkules V’ pusher vessel owned by Hidrovias do Brasil, to achieve notably increased efficiency, reduced emissions, and...
ELECTRIC PUSHBOATS TARGET NORTH AMERICAN WATERWAYS
Lithuanian ship designer Western Baltic Engineering (WBE) is launching two new versions of its ground-breaking electric ‘pusher’ vessel design series, known as the ‘Electric Eel’, as it seeks to support the decarbonisation of America’s inland...