Tag: world’s first

AIDAperla reached the port of Barcelona via the western Mediterranean, on June 7, as part of its "Welcome Cruises", to support Barcelona's environmental efforts. Before summer, the ship is going to be supplied with low-emission liquefied natural gas, while she is docked in the port, to reduce its emissions.

Kuehne + Nagel logistics announced that it has expanded sustainability in its global seafreight services, as it is going to print, on each invoice, the total amount of CO2 emissions generated by seafreight shipments, starting from May 2017. In this way, it aims to assist shippers to identify their carbon footprint from transport operations.

Arcadia Shipmanagement became the first company to receive verification from classification society DNV GL, for compliant monitoring plans for their whole fleet, under the new EU MRV regulation. The company was presented with a certificate recognizing the achievement at DNV GL’s Piraeus office.

Wärtsilä announced the introduction of a fully integrated hybrid power module, combining engines, an energy storage system, and power electronics optimised to work together through a newly developed energy management system. The Wärtsilä HY is the first hybrid power module of this type and it is exposed at this year's Norshipping Conference.

GE’s Marine Solutions reports that the world’s first Liquid Propane Gas -fueled ferry design to use GE’s COmbined Gas turbine Electric and Steam system has successfully completed Hazard Identification meetings. Bureau Veritas chaired the HAZID three-day meetings, that took place in Busan and aim to identify hazards and safeguards during the early ship design stage.

Rolls-Royce has been assigned by the Brazilian ship owning company CBO, to equip an existing offshore platform supply vessel with a new patented dual draglink subsea crane. This will be the first installation of a subsea crane designed to be able to use either fibre or steel wire rope.

Damen Shipyards Group announced that entered a cooperative consortium with RAMLAB, Promarin, Autodesk and Bureau Veritas, in order to develop the world’s first class approved 3D printed ship’s propeller, to be called the WAAMpeller.

Yara and Kongsberg have joined forces to build the "YARA Birkeland", the world's first fully electric and autonomous container ship, with zero emissions which s expected to be capable of performing fully autonomous operations from 2020.

GAS Entec, announced the plan to build a LNG fuelled reefer carrier, that will be recorded as the world's first LNG fuelled reefer carrier. The company chose an indirect type of cargo hold cooling system, which came from the cryogenic energy generated during the vaporization process of LNG, propulsion and power generation fuel.

Wärtsilä announced that has been contracted to supply engines and propulsion machinery for the mega Cutter Suction Dredger, ‘Spartacus’, which is currently being built at the Royal IHC yard in the Netherlands and is to be delivered to Belgium-based DEME. The order with Wärtsilä was booked in the fourth quarter of 2016.