
The first of twelve new hybrid high-speed ferries designed by Incat Crowther for Liberty Lines will soon begin servicing the latter’s routes between Sicily and nearby islands.

Lloyd’s Register (LR), the UK-based classification society, has partnered with REGENT, a US manufacturer of all-electric seagliders for sustainable maritime mobility, to provide certification and advisory services for the latter’s twelve-passenger Viceroy seagliders.

Antwerp Euroterminal (AET) has decided to install the first shore power connection for seagoing vessels in Belgium.

Luxembourg-based shipping group CLdN has joined the Maritime Battery Forum, a global community of maritime battery enablers.

PowerCell has received an order for two 100 kW marine fuel cell systems from O.S. Energy for the Transship II sustainable vessel project.

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply electrical systems needed to convert two ferries operated by Danish company Scandlines to a plug-in hybrid solution.

Swedish maritime battery system supplier Echandia has received an order to deliver battery systems to a Northern European ferry operator.

The construction of Artemis Technologies’ EF-24 passenger ferry, a world-first in high-speed electric maritime transport, is rapidly progressing, the UK-based maritime design and applied technologies company Artemis Technologies said.

DFDS has unveiled a €1 billion investment in battery electric vessels to decarbonize maritime traffic in the English Channel.

French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique has chosen Norwegian company Brunvoll to supply the main propulsion for Orient Express Silenseas’s new wind-powered cruise vessels.

AtoB@C Shipping, a Swedish subsidiary of Finland-based shipping company ESL Shipping, said that its first plug-in hybrid newbuilding Electramar reached the Baltic Sea, marking the end of a long voyage from India around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe.

Norwegian cleantech company TECO 2030 has, in connection to the HyEkoTank project, received approval in principle (AIP) from the Norwegian classification society DNV for a containerized fuel cell power generator (FCPG) for use onboard oceangoing applications.

EuroGreen Maritime (EGM), a French shipping company focused on sustainable maritime solutions, has entered into a seven-year charter agreement, with options for five one-year extensions, for four hybrid battery/dual-fuel methanol vessels with the Norwegian energy company Equinor.

AtoB@C Shipping, a Swedish subsidiary of Finland-based shipping company ESL Shipping, has taken delivery of Stellamar, the second in the series of twelve plug-in hybrid general cargo vessels.