Ammonia

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Höegh Autoliners ASA has been awarded a NOK146 million (almost US$14m) grant from Enova towards the cost of enabling two of their Aurora class pure car and truck carriers to operate on ammonia as a fuel.

5th March 2024

Enova to provide funding for Hoegh Autoliners NH3-fuelled PCTC pair

5th March 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Dr Olivier Denizart, Technical Manager at Lubmarine shares some of the key findings on Lubmarine’s latest R&D projects on future fuels including experiments on an Ammonia-fuelled engine that it has modified.

29th February 2024

Supporting Shipping’s Decarbonisation Towards a Carbon-Free Future

29th February 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Wärtsilä Gas Solutions has launched an Ammonia Fuel Supply System (AFSS) for ships able to operate with ammonia fuel. The groundbreaking solution is available for both liquid and gaseous fuel.

27th February 2024

Wärtsilä introduces AFSS for NH3 fuelled vessels

27th February 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Ocean Hyway Cluster and partners are exploring the potential for retrofitting PSVs for hydrogen or ammonia fuel, including what value a local industry could create for Vestland in western Norway.

23rd February 2024

Norway’s Vestland Evaluating Hydrogen Value Chain

23rd February 2024

SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

Norwegian Car Carrier A/S (NOCC) has confirmed that it has entered into an agreement with CIMC Raffles Shipyard for a pair of dual-fuel pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) newbuildings.

22nd February 2024

NOCC orders dual-fuel PCTC pair

22nd February 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

WinGD and Japanese shipbuilder and technology developer Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. have completed the initial design of an ammonia fuel supply system (AFSS) for vessels powered by WinGD’s X‑DF‑A ammonia-fueled engines.

22nd February 2024

WinGD and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding complete NH3 fuel supply system design

22nd February 2024

SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

CMB.TECH announced that it had placed an order for an ammonia-fuelled container vessel with Chinese shipyard Qingdao Yangfen Shipbuilding on 16 February. 

20th February 2024

CMB.TECH confirms order for NH3-fuelled container feeder

20th February 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Wärtsilä Gas Solutions has announced that it will deliver the fuel supply system for two new gas carriers that will operate with ammonia fuel. The EXMAR LPG medium-size gas carriers will be the first oceangoing…

8th February 2024

Wärtsilä NH3 FSS order for EXMAR gas carriers

8th February 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

A bulk carrier is to be converted to run on next-generation fuels under an EU-sponsored initiative aimed at accelerating international shipping’s decarbonisation. The EUR17m ($18.2m) GAMMA collaborative project, named in reference to…

8th February 2024

EU Backs efuels Retrofit for Bulker

8th February 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

ClassNK has awarded an approval in principle (AiP) for the design of a prismatic ammonia fuel tank (IMO Type B independent tank) for container Ships developed by Planning and Design Center for…

6th February 2024

AiP for Type B NH3 fuel tank for container ships

6th February 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Babcock LGE has been awarded the contract to supply the cargo handling system and the fuel supply system for a series of six Very Large Ammonia Carriers (VLAC) on order at an…

6th February 2024

Cargo handling and FSS contract for VLAC series

6th February 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

DNV has granted approval in principle (AIP) to a design for an ammonia-fuelled 3,5000 container vessel, developed by a consortium including the classification society, the Singapore-based liner operator ONE and Nihon Shipyard Co., Ltd. (NSY).

30th January 2024

DNV awards AIP to NH3-fuelled container feeder design

30th January 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

The four-year EU-funded APOLO project will take a holistic approach to ensuring the commercial viability of ammonia cracking technology that can produce hydrogen onboard short and deepsea vessels.

30th January 2024

Ammonia cracking project will focus on cost and reliability

30th January 2024

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) has announced that it will provide a low-speed two-stroke dual-fuel engine capable of operating on ammonia for an ammonia-fuelled medium-sized gas carrier, which will be constructed at Nihon Shipyard.…

25th January 2024

Japanese Consortium Targets 2026 For First NH3-Fuelled Gas Carrier

25th January 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

MAN Cryo has announced that its design for an ammonia fuel-supply system to safely provide ammonia to marine-engine applications has been awarded an Approval in Principle from classification societies, DNV and Bureau…

23rd January 2024

AiPs for MAN Cryo NH3 FSS

23rd January 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

IACS has announced that it has developed a Unified Requirement (URH1) covering the release of ammonia from the onboard systems for bunkering, storing, preparing and using ammonia as fuel.

18th January 2024

IACS adopts new UR on control of ammonia releases on NH3-fuelled vessels

18th January 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

The successful operation of an ammonia to hydrogen cracker was successfully demonstrated on 18 November on an offshore supply vessel operated by Zumaia Offshore in the Bay of Biscay, according to a project…

16th January 2024

First successful demonstration of onboard ammonia-H2 cracking

16th January 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

A EU-led project to bring forward the introduction of ammonia cracking technology connected with a PEM fuel cell into the marine industry has been awarded funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and…

15th January 2024

Corvus participates in EU APOLO ammonia cracker project

15th January 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Euronav NV and CMB NV, its controlling shareholder, entered into a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of 100% of the shares in CMB.TECH in December 2023, and CMB.TECH CTO Roy Campe…

15th January 2024

CMB.TECH puts technology at heart of Euronav reorientation

15th January 2024

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Associated British Ports (ABP) has launched a tender seeking a lead contractor or consortium to design and build a bulk liquid green energy terminal at the Port of Immingham on England’s east…

11th January 2024

ABP launches ammonia terminal tender for Immingham

11th January 2024