Future Fuels

VESSELS

VESSELS

The test launch of autonomous, unmanned surface vessel (USV) Pioneer has been launched by UK-based ACUA Ocean less than one year after Ad Hoc Marine Designs completed the design.

30th January 2025

INTERVIEW: Pioneering autonomous H2 USVs

30th January 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Neptune Marine has officially begun the construction of a new hybrid survey and remotely operated vehicle support vessel, with a keel laying ceremony held on 21 January at its facilities in Hardinxveld-Giessendam…

24th January 2025

Keel laid for new hybrid survey vessel

24th January 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Ports are struggling with a raft of rules that tell them to decarbonise, and researchers are burning their night candles working out how to reduce emissions for the vessels that use them…

15th January 2025

Challenges of ports decarbonisation: An academic overview

15th January 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Spanish shipyard Armon will build an electric Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (eCSOV) for Bibby Marine after an ‘amicable move away’ from the original builder, Gondan.

14th January 2025

Bibby selects new builders for eCSOV

14th January 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Svitzer and Höegh Autoliners have partnered to provide low-carbon towage services for Höegh Aurora in Australia using Svitzer’s biofuel-powered EcoTow system.

13th January 2025

Svitzer’s EcoTow solution debuts in Australia

13th January 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Engineering firm IMI has announced it will provide a PEM electrolyser to produce hydrogen at the Lithuanian Port of Klaipėda.

13th January 2025

Port to install green H2 electrolyser to power waste vessel

13th January 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

PaxOcean has signed contracts to build two state-of-the-art Offshore Construction Vessels (OCVs) for an undisclosed European shipowner, with delivery expected in 2027.

8th January 2025

Advanced methanol-ready OCVs for offshore renewables

8th January 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has provided a progress report on the performance of one of its battery-powered, all-electric ship-handling tugs.

3rd January 2025

Sanmar’s all-electric tug – a progress report

3rd January 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norwegian shorepower developer Zinus has been handed NOK50 million (€4.2 million) to speed up growth and innovation, CEO Endre Eidsvik says.

18th December 2024

Joint investment made in Norwegian shorepower firm

18th December 2024

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

As more vessel operators and owners seek alternative means of propulsion, new fuels and battery options are mounting up.

18th December 2024

INTERVIEW: Leading the charge in marine batteries

18th December 2024