Month: February 2023

UNCATEGORISED

UNCATEGORISED

Following several high-profile ship fires involving electric vehicles (EVs), a survival technology provider Survitec is advising operators of vessels transporting hybrid and EVs on how best to prevent and control fire onboard ships…

9th February 2023

Early Detection Key To Preventing Shipboard EV Fires

9th February 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Carnival Corporation has carried out a joint pilot project with Wärtsilä to reduce the amount of plastic being used in marine operations. The aim of the project is to boost maritime sustainability…

9th February 2023

Carnival in plastic waste reduction pilot project

9th February 2023

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

The Liberian Registry awarded an Approval in Principle (AIP) to Anemoi Marine Technologies for their Rotor Sail systems on 25 January.

9th February 2023

LISCR AiP for Anemoi rotor sails

9th February 2023

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

The innovative hybrid wellboat Bakkafossur was added to Faroese shipowner Bakkafrost’s fleet in Janaury 2023. The 109-metre long live fish carrier has been designed with an eye on future developments in the offshore fish farming…

9th February 2023

Faroese future-fuel ready live fish carrier

9th February 2023

LNG

LNG

Spanish shipbuilding has given new dimension to its capabilities by delivering a 5,000m3-capacity LNG bunker tanker, the first-ever produced by the industry. The 93m Haugesund Knutsen will supply LNG to gas-fuelled cruise…

9th February 2023

Boost To Spanish LNG Bunkering Role

9th February 2023

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Hapag-Lloyds’s Fleet Upgrade Program will see 100 ships retrofitted with new propellers and bulbous bows reducing green house gas emissions across its vessels.

8th February 2023

Hapag-Lloyd launches huge fleet sustainability drive

8th February 2023

CARBON CAPTURE

CARBON CAPTURE

A project to install an assymetric wingsail alongside a new onboard carbon capture and storage system on a container vessel powered by synthetic fuel has been awarded funding from a French public investment…

8th February 2023

GTT awarded funding to design on-board CCS system

8th February 2023

BIOFUELS

BIOFUELS

TotalEnergies Marine Fuels has concluded its first refuelling of a Hapag-Lloyd containership with biofuel in Singapore’s port waters. The bunkering marks the start of a term supply agreement between the two companies.

8th February 2023

First Singaporean Biofuel Bunkering For Hapag-Lloyd Boxship

8th February 2023

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS, FUEL CELLS AND OTHER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

A Sweden-based fuel cell supplier, PowerCell Sweden AB, has been selected as the preferred supplier of two 6MW fuel cell systems for a pair of hydrogen-powered fuel cell ferries.

8th February 2023

Fuel cell supplier selected for Norwegian ferry project

8th February 2023

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ExxonMobil Marine’s implementation of Palantir Technologies’ Foundry software aims to provide additional operational insight from cylinder condition monitoring data by comparing customer results with similar engines in ExxonMobil’s historic database.

7th February 2023

Big data holds the key to learning more from scrape-down oil analysis

7th February 2023