SMART SOLUTIONS AVOID PORT CONGESTION AND CUT EMISSIONS
As Northern European ports experience the most severe congestion of the year, Netherlands-based company PortXchange is urging the global maritime industry to adopt smarter, real-time port call optimisation technologies to mitigate disruption, lower emissions, and...
BV TYPE APPROVAL FOR BAR’s 37.5m WINDWINGS
In what BAR Technologies describes as ‘a decisive milestone for maritime decarbonisation’, the company has secured a Bureau Veritas (BV) Type Approval Design Certificate (TADC) for its 37.5m WindWings wind-assisted propulsion system, eaning it is now...
TRIESTE PORT TO RECEIVE LOW-NOx DAMEN TUG PAIR
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered two RSD Tugs 2513 to Italy-based Tripmare, which will use the vessels to meet the demands of escalating vessel traffic in the Adriatic port of Trieste. Damen has tailored the standard design of its RSD Tug 2513 for its client,...
WÄRTSILÄ ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR FIRST US BATTERY-ELECTRIC HIGH-SPEED FERRIES
Wärtsilä will supply the electric propulsion system for three fully battery-electric, high-speed ferries that will operate in the San Francisco Bay area. The zero-emission vessels will be the first full electric high-speed ferries to operate and be built in the US....
FUEL REFORMER TO CUT BULK CARRIER EMISSIONS
Bontrup Logistics, a specialist in bulk logistics and maritime transportation, which ships more than 12m tonnes of rock products per year, has selected Fuelre4m’s high efficiency fuel reforming technology to power its bulk carrier, ‘Bontrup Pearl’, to support a major...
SCHOTTEL TO PROPEL US ‘SPACESHIP’
Schottel is to equip a new electrically-powered ro-ro cargo vessel for US-based United Launch Alliance (ULA) being built by Bollinger Shipyards in Amelia, Louisiana. The vessel, to be named SpaceShip, will transport Vulcan rockets from the factory in Decatur, Alabama,...
BATTERY ELECTRIC CANADIAN FERRY LAUNCHED BY DAMEN
Damen Shipyards Group’s Galati shipyard in Romania has launched a Damen RoRo 8117 E3 ferry, the latest Island Class vessel for BC Ferries, and the seventh Damen vessel to sail in the Canadian organisation’s fleet. The ferry is the first in an order of four...
DELTAMARIN DESIGN FOR FINNLINES’ NEW SUSTAINABLE RO-PAX VESSELS
Deltamarin has signed a contract with China Merchants Weihai Shipyard for the design and engineering of Finnlines’ new Hansa Superstar class ro-pax vessels. The contract includes the complete basic and detail design of three ro-pax vessels built for Finnlines and to...