Hydrogen

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Sustainable shipping fuels could reach cost parity with fossil fuels as early as 2035 with the help of decisive emissions policy such as carbon taxes and emissions limits, according to a new…

21st March 2024

Policy action key to delivering alternative and conventional fuel cost parity by 2035: Wärtsilä

21st March 2024

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Mitsui E&S Co., Ltd. has announced the successful first running of a large bore 2-stroke test engine on hydrogen at its Tamano Plant in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The company reports that the successful combustion…

7th March 2024

Groundbreaking First H2-fuelled 2-stroke Engine Test Completed

7th March 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Green hydrogen pioneer Lhyfe has unveiled plans for its first UK plant to support companies in the drive to decarbonise their manufacturing and transport operations.

5th March 2024

Green H2 plans for England’s north-east

5th March 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

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Bureau Veritas has granted approval in principle (AiP) for a large LH2 carrier and associated membrane tank design.

13th February 2024

BV grants AiP for large LH2 carrier

13th February 2024

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

A ground-breaking hydrogen-powered barge has launched to ship goods emission-free on the Rhine between the Netherlands and Germany.

9th February 2024

Hydrogen barge sets sail on Rhine

9th February 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Poppe + Potthoff, the Westphalia-based gas and liquid carrying component supplier, has announced that it will introduce a new series of components suitable for carrying hydrogen under the TOPAQ brand name from April…

8th February 2024

Poppe + Potthoff to launch H2 fuel supply system components

8th February 2024

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to Estonian State Fleet for hydrogen fuel-cell ferry designed by Finnish ship design and engineering company Deltamarin.

6th February 2024

LR AiP for H2 fuel-cell ferry for the Estonian State Fleet

6th February 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Bureau Veritas (BV) has granted an approval in principle (AIP) for the design for a 150,000 cbm liquefied hydrogen (LH2) carrier and an AiP for the design of a cryogenic membrane containment system for liquefied hydrogen…

1st February 2024

AIPs for 150k cbm LH2 carrier design and LH2 membrane containment system

1st February 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

A Scottish consortium has been awarded a UK Government grant to develop the use of green hydrogen to reduce carbon emissions from vessels while berthed in port.

30th January 2024

Greener shore power derived from wastewater

30th January 2024

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for a maritime hydrogen fuel cell system developed by YANMAR Power Technology Co., Ltd. (YANMAR PT). This is the first AiP certification for a…

18th January 2024

AiP for Yanmar maritime hydrogen fuel cell

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

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

A number of Atlantic ports on the Iberian peninsular are to play host to a variety of pilot schemes exploring the use of hydrogen and methanol for shipping and port vehicles.

11th January 2024

Iberian Atlantic ports to explore H2 and methanol

11th January 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

FRS Windcat Offshore Logistics has announced the deployment of the first hydrogen-powered dual fuel Crew Transfer Vessel in Germany, servicing various wind farms in the German Baltic Sea.

9th January 2024

First hydrogen-powered CTV enters service in German offshore market

9th January 2024

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A collaborative project has been launched under United Nations(UN) auspices to prepare seafarers for zero or near-zero emission ships. Entitled Training Seafarers for a Decarbonised Future, the initiative has the goal of…

3rd January 2024

Front Line Training For Energy Transition

3rd January 2024

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Ambitious plans to accelerate the scope and production capacity of hydrogen produced using carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology in the UK were announced on 14 December by the UK government, alongside…

19th December 2023

UK aims to expand low carbon hydrogen production using CCUS

19th December 2023

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

BMT has published the results of a collaborative study exploring the feasibility of retrofitting medium-sized Ro-Pax ferries with a range of hydrogen propulsion and storage technologies. The study was conducted jointly with…

4th December 2023

BMT hydrogen propulsion retrofit white paper

4th December 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Belgium-headquartered ship owner and operator Boeckmans has announced that it is ordering a series of four 5,000 dwt general cargo vessels from Dung Quat shipyard in Vietnam. The diesel-electric vessels are expected…

30th November 2023

Boeckmans to order future-proofed general cargo vessels

30th November 2023

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

A maritime nuclear power specialist has raised US$100 million to help build a prototype proof-of-concept reactor for ports.

28th November 2023

Prototype nuclear reactor for ports

28th November 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

MAN Energy Solutions has received an order for two shipsets of variable-speed gensets from Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) in India in connection with the building of two short-sea feeder container ships for global logistics…

21st November 2023

MAN to supply gensets for H2-fuelled Container Feeders

21st November 2023

HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN

Three European ports are working together to explore the development of an intra-European corridor for renewable hydrogen connecting Spain, the Netherlands and Germany.

21st November 2023

Intra-European hydrogen corridor plans advance

21st November 2023