Tag: electricity

The Goal Zero Consortium, comprising companies such as SeaTech Solutions International (S) Pte Ltd, Shift Clean Energy, Yinson GreenTech and classed by RINA, has launched the Hydromover – Singapore’s first fully-electric cargo vessel with swappable batteries. It can transport up to 25 tonnes, CEO of the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore, Eng Dih Teo said in a LinkedIn post.

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Shipping Analyst, Filipe Gouveia, looks at the decline in coal shipments to advanced economies.

The average utilization rate (or capacity factor) for the entire U.S. fleet of combined-cycle natural gas turbine (CCGT) electric power plants has risen as the operating efficiency of new CCGT units has improved, EIA highlights.

Carisbrooke Shipping and Thecla Bodewes Shipyards, announced the signing of a major shipbuilding contract, for the construction of a Labrax 7,280 dwt diesel-electric multipurpose dry cargo vessel.

USV AS has contracted Astilleros Gondán shipyard to build an unmanned surface vessel (USV), capable of significantly reducing emissions and operating expenses compared to conventional vessels utilised for subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) work.

HaiSea Marine, majority owned by Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan ULC, celebrated the arrival of the world’s first fully electric tugboat as it sailed under the Lions Gate Bridge for the first time.

Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center presented its Renewable Energy Positioning paper yesterday, in which identified four key constraints that may hinder the supply of renewable electricity to the maritime industry in the 2030s and 2040s, potentially leading to a shortage of e-fuels.

COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry (Yangzhou) started to build the second 700TEU electric container ship (N998) owned by COSCO SHIPPING Development, in the presence of the shipowner, ship survey authority, maritime department, and shipyard.

Hong Kong Merchant Shipping has issued an Information Note to draw lessons learned from an incident where a fatal electrocution accident happened on board a Hong Kong registered bulk carrier during cargo hold cleaning off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico.

Electrical Energy on board ships can be hazardous. Machinery, equipment, and systems found aboard a ship differ substantially from those found in landside facilities of general industry.