German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has released a video of how a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank was installed on its LNG-powered 23,600 TEU containership Berlin Express.
MAN Energy Solutions is about to start developing retrofit solutions for medium-speed marine engines as part of a research association including WTZ Roßlau gGmbh and TU-Darmstadt. The three-year research project, ‘CliNeR-ECo’, is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate
In the race to achieve net-zero emissions, the maritime sector is turning its attention to hydrogen fuel as a potential game-changer. Hydrogen has uses as a direct fuel in both gaseous or potentially liquid form, and also as a feedstock for liquid hydrogen carriers such as ammonia or methanol. Howev
Swiss marine power company WinGD has revealed that it is on track to deliver its first X-DF-A dual-fuel ammonia engines by the first quarter of 2025.
Finnsirius, the first of two hybrid ro-pax vessels, was delivered to freight and passenger shipping company Finnlines at the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard in Weihai, China, on 18 July 2023. Finnsirius will start operating on the Naantali–Långnäs–Kapellskär route in September 2023. The second vess
Japanese industry stakeholders including e5 Lab, Marindows, e-Mobility Power, CHAdeMO Association, The Japan Ship Technology Research Association, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, and Development Bank of Japan have established the Promotion Council for Zero Emission Chargers for Ships, aiming to promote the
Turkish Uzmar Shipyards has selected MAN Energy Solutions’ (MAN ES) 12V175D-MM marine propulsion engines for Svitzer’s TRAnsverse tugboats.
Norwegian RoRo shipping company Höegh Autoliners has exercised the option to build an additional four new multi-fuel and net zero carbon ready Aurora class vessels. The shipping company will have the option to convert one or more of these vessels to ammonia propulsion as soon as the technology is av
Dutch producer and distributor of hydrogen-based products OCI Global has completed what has been described as ‘the world’s first green methanol bunkering operation’ at the Port of Ulsan, Korea. The bunkering operation took place on Sunday, July 16, when OCI fueled A.P. Moller Maersk’s first green me
Energy company World Fuel Services Corporation has conducted a liquified natural gas (LNG) bunkering operation in China, supplying LNG for Hapag-Lloyd’s 23,660 TEU containership Berlin Express.
DB Schenker and Volvo Cars have embarked on a partnership for more sustainable ocean freight, shipping 12,000 standard containers (TEU) with automotive spare parts on vessels using biofuel.
The first quarter of 2023 saw Carbon Emissions Index (CEI) improvements on the majority of top 13 container trades, evaluated by Xeneta, an Oslo-based ocean and air freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform. The average CO2 emitted per ton of cargo carried fell on ten of the world’s le
The jury is still out on the fuel choice for a series of twenty new vessels the Singapore-based container shipping major Ocean Network Express (ONE) has on order. “We haven’t made a decision yet on which technology to choose. The jury is still out and like the rest of the industry we are very intere
German engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions (MAN ES) has completed the first running of a test engine on ammonia at its Research Centre Copenhagen (RCC).
