Britain’s aluminium shipbuilder, The Wight Shipyard Co., has unveiled an all-share merger with the complementary French shipbuilder OCEA to create a combined group to capitalise on the fast ferry and offshore renewable energy markets opportunities.
Short-sea operator Unifeeder Group has bunkered its first sustainable 100% biofuel from oil refiner and supplier VARO Energy in the Port of Rotterdam as part of the collaboration targeting reduced carbon footprint of the shipping industry.
Swedish tanker shipping company Concordia Maritime has launched a technical design study on the conversion of a tanker to a container vessel.
French project Energy Observer is launching a design of a multipurpose cargo ship fuelled by liquid hydrogen, a technology that allows zero-emission navigation, while offering very high transport capacities and autonomy.
Danish ballast water management specialist Bawat, the US venture builder Green Swan Partners, and the US ballast water reception company Monstrant Viam have formed a joint venture company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Making a step further in taking concrete action to support decarbonisation, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with industrial gases company Air Products to establish a sustainable supply chain for hydrogen.
Tension Technology International (TTI) has launched a survey to check potential interest from the wave energy developers in its NetBuoy product.
In the largest project of its kind, shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk has installed automated weather stations (AWS) on 50 of its vessels to transmit live data helping forecast weather and climate.
Dubai-based port operator DP World and Canada’s Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA) have announced updates to several critical infrastructure projects that will make Canada’s west coast more resilient to future supply chain challenges.
Canadian renewable energy developer Boralex has commissioned its first floating solar farm in southern France.
Built by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, the Wave Energy Converter SIMulator (WEC-Sim) has assisted close to 100 developers to improve their wave energy research and designs.
Norwegian Innova and the U.S. Teledyne Energy System have partnered to demonstrate the use of hydrogen for local power of subsea control systems.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) is seeking in-kind and financial sponsors for the Waves to Water Prize, a competition that aims to accelerate the development of wave energy-powered desalination.
Marine geophysical services provider Shearwater GeoServices and oil and gas major ConocoPhillips have formed a strategic partnership to collaborate on seismic imaging technology.
