Research into Ammonia as a Marine Fuel Wins Maritime Designer Award
Niels de Vries, with his research into ammonia as a marine fuel, won the Maritime Designer Award at the Maritime Awards Gala last night (4 November). In his research, De Vries uses an ammonia tanker...Read more
EC Agrees on Zero Emission Shipping Partnership
The European Commission (EC) and the member states have agreed on the establishment of a “Partnership Zero Emission Waterborne Transport”. This was revealed by SEA Europe yesterday (29 October), which claims to get this intel...Read more
Maersk to Focus on Alcohol, Biomethane and Ammonia as Future Marine Fuels
Danish shipping company Maersk sees most potential for decarbonising its fleet by using alcohol, biomethane, and ammonia as a marine fuel, even though this will drive operating costs. This follows from a study the company...Read more
Den Helder to Become Home-base for Maritime Drone Technology
Maritime drones are to keep an eye on the construction of offshore wind farms, sustainable energy generation at sea and ever busier shipping traffic. The Maritime Drone Initiative Noord-Holland (MDI) seeks to develop drones for...Read more
Live Water Depth Measuring Platform Seeks to Scale Up
The CoVadem platform gathers data from inland navigation ships to map current and predicted available depth on Dutch shipping lanes. The organisation now calls on more ships to join to increase its coverage, which in...Read more
IBM to Build ‘Brains’ of Autonomous Research Vessel Mayflower
A global consortium led by marine research organisation ProMare is building an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship. It is to cross the Atlantic on the fourth centenary of the original Mayflower voyage in September 2020. IBM systems,...Read more
Marin Tests First Transatlantic Underwater Hyperloop
Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (Marin) has carried out the first demonstration tests for a transatlantic underwater hyperloop. Although various parties around the world are working on the development of the hyperloop, no one has ever...Read more
VIDEOS: Presenting the 2019 RNLN Van Hengel-Spengler Award Nominees
Each year, the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) presents its Van Hengel-Spengler Award to research that improves the operational deployment of naval units. This year’s nominees focused on amphibious operations, turbocharger configurations to improve the efficiency...Read more