The LHD tidal current energy demonstration project, being developed near Xiushan island in China’s Zhejiang Province, has exceeded 60 months of continuous operation.
Dutch shipping company Future Proof Shipping (FPS) has launched the first hydrogen-powered zero-emissions inland container ship, H2 Barge 1, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The official launch of H2 Barge 1 took place in Rotterdam on 25 May. Future Proof Shipping’s zero-emissions 110m x 11.45m inland
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has delivered an ammonia fuel supply system for large, low-speed two-stroke marine engines to Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG). Based in Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture, J-ENG is actively testing ammonia fuel under diverse con
Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) has opened an innovation challenge for technology developers seeking support for their offshore test campaigns.
EEL Energy has secured a permit from the French navigation authority Voies navigables de France (VNF) to deploy its tidal energy turbine in the river Rhône near Lyon, that will later be accompanied with three additional devices.
The retrofitting cost of an existing ship fitted with a two-stroke engine to a dual-fuel engine should not exceed 25 percent of the ship’s newbuilding cost, according to an assessment from DNV and MAN Energy Solutions. The duo carried out an analysis of how retrofitting the existing maritime fleet t
The UK’s first-of-its-kind national robotics center for offshore renewable energy has been opened at Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s testing facility in Blyth. The Digital, Autonomous and Robotics Engineering (DARE) Centre will provide an opportunity for developers, researchers and the wi
South Korea’s shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has announced the development of innovative LNG carriers and containerships during the “Samsung Technical Seminar in Athens” (Samsung Technology Road Show) in Athens, Greece. The company unveiled its “3 Cargo Tank LNGC” and “Eco Container Ship
European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has won funding, totalling over £500,000 (around $623,000), for four feasibility projects supporting green hydrogen innovation and development. More specifically, the funding is expected to be used to conduct feasibility studies supporting the development of nove
The world’s largest container shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) with Lloyd’s Register (LR), Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) and MAN Energy Solutions (MAN-ES) for a design for the ammonia dual-fuel operation
bound4blue, a developer of wind-assisted propulsion technology, and Oceanking, a Greece-based provider of marine technology solutions, have formed a partnership to jointly expand access to the eSAIL technology in Greece and Cyprus. bound4blue’s eSAIL is a wind-assisted propulsion system known as a s
Leaders of 20 Pacific island countries and territories have approved the Global Ocean Energy Alliance (GLOEA), highlighting the implementation of the 1.5MW ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) platform being developed for deployment in São Tomé and Príncipe.
Norwegian company Ocean Sun has started making design improvements to its floating solar units, based on the insights gained through real sea demonstration of the technology linked with offshore wind turbines in China.
Equinor’s Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in operation, has started delivering electricity to the Snorre oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea. The 88 MW Hywind Tampen delivered first power in November 2022. The electricity was delivered to the Gullfaks A platfo
