The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has opened the second round of its Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project (CORE), providing point-of-sale discounts on off-road zero-emission equipment, including port equipment. The project is administered by CALSTART – a national nonprofit...
https://splash247.com/california-offers-125m-in-incentives-for-zero-emission-equipment/
Synergy Marine, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Synergy Group, has partnered up with US-based battery developer Alsym Energy and Japanese owner Nissen Kaiun to roll out non-flammable rechargeable batteries for the shipping sector. The partnership will see Alsym provide Synergy and Nissen Kaiun with 1...
https://splash247.com/synergy-eyes-non-flammable-rechargeable-batteries-for-shipping/
“MARPOL at 50 – Our commitment goes on” has been selected as the upcoming theme for the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2023 World Maritime Theme, which will culminate in a World Maritime Day celebration on 28 September next year.
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A new study in the Nature Energy Journal exploring the economic and environmental benefits of direct electrification of containerships shows that dramatic improvements in batteries have unlocked the potential to electrify big containerships today on voyages of up to 5,000 km. The main findings from...
https://splash247.com/shipping-shown-pathway-to-battery-powered-future/
Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has signed for more sail tech. Having already decided to install Seawings, an automatic kite system developed by France’s Airseas on two of its capesize bulkers, K Line has now signed a contract for the purchase of three additional Seawing units with Airseas,...
Washington-based independent nonprofit organisation the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), has published a white paper on greenhouse gas (GHG) air and water pollution linked to marine fuel sales at the Port of Singapore. The study claimed that if the world’s largest bunkering...
One hundred and seventy euros ($173). That’s the price Danish carrier Maersk estimates clients will have to pay extra per feu on the Asia – Europe tradelane once a package of new European Union regulations kick in. For reefers, the extra charge is estimated on the same tradelane at EUR255. In an...
https://splash247.com/173-per-feu-maersk-warns-eus-emissions-trading-plans-will-be-significant/
UK-based engineering company Expleo is trumpeting a closed-loop, e-methanol fuel cell, which it claims delivers a 92% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, opex savings of £1.4m ($1.67m) a year and a projected four-year payback on retrofit capex. Expleo modelled its so-called system-of-systems...
https://splash247.com/uk-firm-debuts-green-system-of-systems-delivering-92-cut-in-ghg-emissions/
A new study from the University of Delaware published in Environmental Research Letters looked at the potential effects of offshore wind farms on people living on the US East Coast. Authors Maryam Golbazi, Cristina Archer and Stefano Alessandrini were particularly interested to discover possible...
By Todd Woody (Bloomberg) As battery makers scramble to procure cobalt, nickel, and other metals to meet rising consumer demand for electric cars, governmental opposition to strip-mining the seabed for…
https://gcaptain.com/decarbonization-strip-mine-ocean-seabeds/