Bureau Veritas (BV) has granted an Approval in Principle to Greek company ERMA FIRST for its BLUE CONNECT system, a high voltage alternative maritime power solution that can be housed in a 40ft container.
Alfa Laval and WinGD have established a partnership in which Alfa Laval will deliver two fuel supply systems (FSS) for testing WinGD's ammonia-fuelled engine in early 2024.
The study is the latest among shippers including North Sea Container Line, MOL and Bunker Holding that are exploring ammonia as an alternative marine fuel as they seek ways to cut emissions and meet decarbonisation goals.
SOFEC can leverage its buoy designs and modify them to accommodate offshore electric power transfer from seaports or offshore wind farms substations to Electric Vessels.
Alfa Laval fuel supply system FCM Methanol has been selected by Maersk for their pioneering methanol retrofit project to enable the container vessel Maersk Halifax to operate on methanol fuel.
Ship management company Laskaridis Shipping, technology provider METIS Cyberspace Technology and classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) have worked together to develop new notations for the use of augmented data to optimise operations and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
S5 Agency World (S5) has announced it recently completed its first drone delivery of Cash to Master to the bulk carrier "NORD MAGELLAN", as it was anchored in Singapore.
"Shipping is now coming to accept that real-time vessel data, predictive analysis and artificial intelligence will be crucial to meeting the needs of the transition ahead."
