Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has signed a five-year renewal of its existing maintenance agreement with Norway’s Höegh LNG Fleet Management (HLNG). The renewed agreement includes the delivery of spare parts and field maintenance services, as well as Wärtsilä’s latest digital solutions, and exten
Construction of the second LNG-fueled Icon-class cruise ship for Royal Caribbean has started at the Meyer Turku shipyard. The shipbuilder confirmed this in a social media update stating that the construction began on 15 February with the traditional steel cutting ceremony. This will be Royal Caribbe
State-owned transmission system operator Gasgrid Finland is progressing its hydrogen transfer infrastructure demonstration project with a €9.5 million grant for project design and potential construction. The demonstration project aims to construct a pipeline to enable the hydrogen generated at Kemir
Neste’s Engineering Solutions has completed the construction work of the 2.2-kilometre gas transmission pipeline for Gasgrid Finland’s floating LNG terminal vessel FSRU Exemplar in the port of Inkoo. Finnish transmission system operator Gasgrid recently implemented the country’s first FSRU-based ter
Finland’s government has adopted a resolution on hydrogen in which it describes the countries’ objectives regarding hydrogen and the measures to promote them. According to the government, Finland’s goal is to become the European leader in the hydrogen economy in the entire value chain, and it has th
Sweden-based OX2 has entered into a partnership with the Norwegian consumer goods company Orkla to supply green hydrogen to the company’s Haraldsby factory in Åland. The aim of the cooperation is to assess and plan the supply of hydrogen from 2025. The hydrogen for Orkla’s factory in Saltvik, Åland
Estonian energy company Eesti Gaas has made agreements with two large LNG terminals in the Finnish-Baltic region to bring a total of ten LNG cargoes by the fall of this year. Under the agreements, Eesti gas will bring three deliveries to the port of Klaipeda in Lithuania in the winter and seven to t
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply dual-fuel engines and high-performance axial flow waterjets for Baleària’s new high-speed RoPax ferry powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Gasgrid Finland, a Finnish state-owned company and transmission system operator, has announced that a joint hydrogen valley project, BalticSeaH2, between Finland and Estonia is underway. Gasgrid said the 5-year project will next proceed to the preparation of a financing agreement with the Clean Hydr
The Sweden-based company OX2 and the Bank of Åland, who are jointly developing two multi-gigawatt-scale offshore wind farms in Finland, have initiated a feasibility study on Mega Grön Hamn (Mega Green Port), a project involving large-scale production and distribution of hydrogen and e-fuel in Åland.
The Finnish Climate Fund, a state-owned special assignment firm, will provide a capital loan of up to €10 million euros to rotor sail manufacturer Norsepower for increasing its production capacity. The capital loan comes with a market-based interest rate determined according to the risks of the proj
The Clean Arctic Alliance, comprising 20 not-for-profit organisations, called for urgent action to address the impact of underwater noise from ships on Arctic wildlife, as a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction opens in London. A pr
