Vessels

Maritime Journal’s expert editors cover commercial marine vessel technologies such as electronics, navigation, monitoring & autonomy, along with ship & boatbuilding, financing, insuring and operating vessels safely. This section also features the latest news covering propulsion equipment as well as tugs, towing, and salvage.

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FEATURE: Wind’s low-carbon realities for vessel operators

2026-07-28T12:44:00+01:00By Stevie Knight

Offshore wind support is currently having a choppy ride, with at least one industry lead saying it’s not keeping pace with low-carbon objectives. It hasn’t helped that a number of owners and operators who’d enthusiastically taken up alternatives like methanol, batteries and hybridisation took a hit when these suffered unexpected challenges., reports Stevie Knight.