Tag: sweden

The Port of Gothenburg has signed a sister port agreement with the Port of Shenzhen to strengthen cooperation between the ports on sustainable transport, volume growth, and new technology.

A new investigation into the sinking of ferry Estonia that claimed 852 lives in 1994 revealed flaws in its bow visor construction missed during its certification.

A feasibility study carried out by Liquid Wind in partnership with Umeå Energi confirms that there are excellent conditions for establishing Sweden’s third electrofuel facility for the maritime sector at the Dåva cogeneration plant in Umeå.

DNV and the Responsible Shipping Initiative (RSI), an alliance of Swedish dry bulk charterers, have launched a feasibility study to develop a commercial framework for orders of green-fuelled newbuilds to decarbonize the sea transport supply chain in the Baltic and North Sea areas and beyond.

Three Port of Gothenburg projects for a green transformation of shipping have been selected by the Swedish government to constitute Sweden's contribution to the international initiative Green Shipping Challenge.

Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with Holland Shipyards Group to provide electrification and control systems with automated functionalities for up to four new all-electric ferries for the Swedish Transport Administration.

A crime scene investigation of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Europe discovered evidence of detonations, strengthening suspicions of "gross sabotage", according to Sweden's Security Service.

Holland Shipyards Group signed a contract with Trafikverket Sweden for the delivery of two plus two autonomous all-electric ferries. The ferries will sail according to autonomy level 2, and will be controlled from the remote control center based in Stockholm.

Activists from Greenpeace Nordic have stopped the ship Coral Energy from unloading its cargo of Russian fossil gas at an LNG terminal in Sweden.

A rescue operation was underway off the coast of Sweden on August 29, as Swedish maritime authorities reported that a car ferry with almost 300 individuals on board caught fire.