Tag: world’s first

Cwind deployed Wight Shipyard Co (WSC) to build the world's first hybrid surface effect crew transfer vessel, which is to operate Borssele 1 and 2 offshore windfarms located 23 kilometres off the Dutch coast in mid-2020.

The world’s first superconducting light weight wind turbine generator was presented by the EU-funded EcoSwing project, able to operate on a large scale commercial wind turbine.

MAN Energy Solutions and Wessels Marine GmbH have announced a technical showcase where the 2017-retrofitted 'Wes Amelie', a 1,036-TEU feeder container ship, will use liquefied SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) produced from renewable electrical energy as drop-in fuel. 

Boskalis and biofuels supplier GoodFuels will advance the 'Boskalis on Bio' program for testing sustainable bio-fuel oil. After successful tests with 'drop-in' blends of light biofuel and marine gas oil, Boskalis’ Willem van Oranje will be the first dredging vessel in the world to operate on 100% biofuel oil.

Transocean announced that it has successfully deployed the world’s first hybrid energy storage system aboard a floating drilling unit. The system is now operating on the Transocean Spitsbergen, and it is engaged in drilling operations at the Snorre field in Norway.

Nauticor-operated LNG bunker supply vessel Kairos conducted its first SIMOPS (simultaneous operations) LNG bunkering operation with the world's first container ship retrofitted with an LNG engine, Wes Amelie, at the Vuosaari Harbour container terminal in the Port of Helsinki, Finland. 

Port of Antwerp has ordered construction of a tug powered by hydrogen, the first in the world. This 'Hydrotug' is driven by combustion engines that burn hydrogen in combination with diesel. The motors also comply with the very strictest standard, the EU Stage V.

BEHALA informed that the construction of the world's first emission-free push boat will start in October 2019. The ship is expected to have been completed by the fourth quarter of 2020. The boat will be used mainly for transporting goods on the Berlin-Hamburg and inner-city transport routes.

Finnish shipyard Rauma Marine Constructions has begun construction of the world's most environmentally friendly RoPax vessel for the consortium Kvarken Link, to operate between Vaasa in Finland and Umeå in Sweden. A traditional steel cutting ceremony was held at the shipyard on 16 September.

NYK has become the first Japanese shipping company to realize a carbon-neutral voyage by offsetting 5,000 tons of CO2, as the company's environmental car carrier 'Aries Leader' completed a journey between Japan and the Middle East.