Compared to a seawater desalination plant on land, FDVs do not require the acquisition of land and is built by converting a used ship, so it offers advantages such as the ability to start water supply in a short time.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. and EnviroNor AS have signed a memorandum of understanding to discuss collaboration on a Floating Desalination Vessel and have begun collaboration toward commercialization.
MOL said:
“By combining MOL’s extensive experience in building, owning and operating ships over many years with EnviroNor’s expertise within shipping and desalination, we aim to build FDVs and capture business opportunities as a means of providing new fast-track solutions all over the world where water shortages are a current and rapid growing challenge.
Commercialization of Floating Desalination Vessel was suggested through the MOL Group Employee Proposal System “MOL Incubation Bridge”, and resulted in a memorandum of understanding with EnviroNor.”
