
UK classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded approval in principle (AiP) to Hong Kong-based containership lessor Seaspan Corporation for its next-generation feeder ship design.

Investment funds of French companies GTT and Engie have taken part in a €4 million financing round to support the development of compatriot CryoCollect, an engineering company specialized in gas handling technologies for biomethane, carbon dioxide (CO2), and hydrogen.

Dutch energy storage system provider EST-Floattech has signed a contract with Wight Shipyard to provide its Octopus Series battery systems for two London ferries.

Danish shipping company Norden has wrapped up the “first ever” 100% biofuel (B100) bunkering in Singapore.

MHI and NGK will jointly develop membrane dehydration systems to realize low cost and optimize the efficiency of manufacturing processes for bioethanol and eMethanol.

Biofuels could play an important role in decarbonizing the maritime industry, which is under pressure to gradually reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Takuya Koizumi, general manager of NYK’s Decarbonization Group, said.

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

US-based shipping company SWITCH Maritime has received approval from the U.S. Coast Guard for its hydrogen-powered ferry Sea Change to enter commercial operations.

Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP) and Green2x have entered into a partnership to design, establish and operate one of the world’s largest biofuel plants to date at CMP’s terminals in the port of Malmö, Sweden.

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.

The European Council has adopted a regulation and a directive establishing common internal market rules for renewable and natural gases and hydrogen.

SAFEEN Group, a maritime services provider and part of the UAE-based AD Ports Group, has decided to trial an electric tug within the company’s Marine Services fleet, the first of its kind in the Middle East.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde and Johnson Matthey (JM) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly offer a fully integrated low-carbon (blue) ammonia solution.

Chinese shipbuilder New Times Shipbuilding has launched the liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel bulker for Singapore-based shipowner Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS).