Green ideas to get WWL funding

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) announced plans to award $100,000 in grants this year to entrepreneurs working on zero-emissions technologies for shipping and port logistics.

WWL has also expanded the eligibility criteria for the Orcelle Grants to include alternative energy sources and energy-efficient technologies with applications for commercial shipping and terminal operations. This reflects WWL’s own research and development into the Orcelle, a zero emissions concept vessel, and the Castor Green Terminal, a zero-emissions terminal and cargo processing centre.

“A raft of new environmental regulations are coming to shipping and logistics over the next decade,” explains Arild B. Iversen, CEO WWL. “By funding the Orcelle Grants, our aim is to stimulate innovation needed to meet these tough new environmental standards.”

Applications are welcome from across the world from individual inventors, entrepreneurs and technology developers. Successful proposals will be those with the greatest environmental and commercial potential.