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Ship&Offshore
30.08.2023
Ship Operation

Gothenburg to revolutionise port call management

The Port of Gothenburg is to introduce new software, Digital Port Call, early next year that will consolidate all of the information required for an efficient port call. Developed jointly with Finnish port operations specialist, Awake.AI, the system…

Ship&Offshore
29.08.2023
Ship Operation

First LNG-based carbon insets issued

Clean fuel supplier, Titan, and 123Carbon, a blockchain-based carbon insetting platform for transport, have issued the first LNG-based carbon insets. Insetting allows fuel providers, like Titan, and shipping companies to spread the environmental…

Ship&Offshore
28.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Wärtsilä supplies power package for Brazilian Navy ship

An Antarctic support vessel being built for the Brazilian Navy at Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz shipyard is to have a range of power-related systems supplied by technology group Wärtsilä. They will include three Wärtsilä 32 diesel generating sets, a…

Ship&Offshore
28.08.2023
Offshore

Offshore wind farm owner pilots autonomous systems

Toronto-based Northland Power, owner of the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in the North Sea, has completed joint tests with Germany’s Subsea Europe Services to use uncrewed surface vessels (USV) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) for…

Ship&Offshore
23.08.2023
Shipbuilding

All electric ferry "a game-changer"

Corvus Energy, Wärtsilä, and Incat have released details of what they claim will be the world’s first zero-emission, electric, lightweight RoPax ferry. The 130m-long catamaran is currently under construction at Incat in Tasmania, Australia. Due for…

Ship&Offshore
23.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Bureau Veritas to assess AirWing technology

GT Green Technologies has retained Bureau Veritas to assess its AirWing wind propulsion technology with the aim of achieving Approval in Principle (AiP) for its AirWing20TM system.

The company has been awarded funding to support technology…

Ship&Offshore
22.08.2023
Offshore

Investors gear up for floating wind

Swiss construction company, Implenia, has agreed with NorSea, a privately owned industrial group majority owned by Wilh. Wilhemsen, to become equal minority shareholders in WindWorks Jelsa, an industrial plant on Norway’s west coast, with holdings of…

Ship&Offshore
21.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Fuel cell tug design moves to next stage

The second design phase of a methanol hybrid fuel cell (MHFC) tug being developed by A.P. Møller-Mærsk subsidiary, Svitzer, and naval architects, Robert Allan Ltd., has now begun. Following technical studies to establish the feasibility of this type…

Ship&Offshore
21.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Odfjell picks eSAIL system for chemical tanker

Norway’s Odfjell is to install an eSAIL® from Spanish wind sail company, bound4blue, on board its chemical tankers. The tanker company’s move, with installation of the suction sail likely in 2024, will be the first time that this technology has been…

Ship&Offshore
17.08.2023
Shipbuilding

Liquefaction expertise for major energy transition project

Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the liquefaction and storage of liquefied synthetic methane (LSM). It is planned that the Power-to-X facility will be built by Koppö Energia Oy, a joint venture…