Marine equipment supplier Royal IHC has obtained approval in principle (AiP) from classification society Bureau Veritas for the design of a hydrogen-fuelled trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD).
Royal IHC has developed the design in collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat, which is part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
The company stated that it is engineering a new type of vessel, known as the LEAF (low energy adaptive fuel) hopper.
The partners started working on the...
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