TANKER CONCEPT OFFERS IMMEDIATE IMO 2050 COMPLIANCE
Swedish ship designer FKAB has received an Approval in Principal (AiP) from RINA for an MR tanker design using LNG with steam to produce Hydrogen, for propulsion, and CO2. A gas reformer will produce hydrogen to supply the main engine as well as a bank of ABB fuel...
DEVELOPMENT OF HYDROGEN AND CARBON CAPTURE MUST BE INTERTWINED – ABS CEO
Christopher J Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President, and CEO, has told the American Hydrogen Forum that: “Transportation and safety, as well as standards and regulation, are going to be nothing short of boundary conditions in this energy transition.” Wiernicki continued:...
DAMEN’S HYBRID CRANE HELPS CLEAN UP AMSTERDAM
Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld has delivered a Damen Crane Vessel 1804 WN25 to the ‘bagger en drijfvuil’ (dredging and floating debris) department of Waternet Amsterdam, the organisation responsible to delivering fresh water and associated management services...
ZERO-EMISSION PUSHER TUG FOR DUTCH WATERWAYS
Dutch company Kotug is to deploy its E-Pusher type M and four barges for zero-emission transport of cocoa beans by Cargill between the Port of Amsterdam, the largest cocoa import port in the world, and Cargill’s cocoa facilities in Zaandam. The vessel is...
GRIMALDI AND WÄRTSILÄ EMPLOY SCRUBBERS TO REMOVE PLASTIC FROM THE SEA
The Grimaldi Group has reinforced its environmental sustainability credentials by partnering with Wärtsilä in a venture that Grimaldi refers to as ‘the vacuum cleaner of the seas’. The Neapolitan shipowning company says it has been working for years to...
ClassNK CALCULATES CO2 EMISSIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY-LINKED FINANCE
Classification Society ClassNK will calculate the CO2 emissions from the ships to be financed under a Sustainability-Linked Loan provided by Orix Corporation. The ship finance agreement signed between Orix and a shipowner in Hong Kong is a sustainability-linked loan....
MEYER WERFT BEGINS ASSEMBLY OF NEW P&O GREEN CRUISESHIP
The construction of the newest member of the P&O Cruises fleet has reached another milestone as the Meyer Werft team laid the keel of the ship in a symbolic ceremony. In the process, the shipyard’s 800-ton crane placed a 570t block for Arvia’s...
VALMET TESTS SCRUBBER TECHNOLOGY TO REMOVE MORE PM AND BLACK CARBON
Finnish cleantech company Valmet says that it has tested a first-of-a-kind exhaust gas treatment system (scrubber) and wet electrostatic precipitator combination which is capable of cutting exhaust gas emissions from a marine diesel engine by up to 99%. Valmet...