Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore

Australian-Singaporean partnership to study emissions reduction measures for shipping

Ships in the Singapore Strait

The Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) have initiated a bilateral program designed to assist the Australian and Singaporean maritime and port sectors in significantly reducing their carbon emissions. The Australia-Singapore Initiative on Low-Emissions Technologies for Maritime and Port Operations (ASLET) will support […]

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Singapore port authority selects 11 proposals for electric harbour craft design project

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has selected 11 design proposals to proceed to the next stage of a project that aims to introduce a new type of fully electric harbour craft into service. The 11 proposals were selected out of a total of 55 submitted by 32 international and local...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/passenger-vessel-world/ferries/singapore-port-authority-selects-11-proposals-for-electric-harbour-craft-design-project/

VESSEL REVIEW | Hydromover – All-electric catamaran cargo vessel and testbed for operation in Singapore

Singapore shipbuilder Lita Ocean has completed construction of a fully-electric light cargo vessel for operation in the country’s waters by Malaysian company Yinson GreenTech (YGT). Built in compliance to RINA class rules, Hydromover is a catamaran fitted with swappable batteries and space for up to 25 tonnes of cargo. The battery technology provided by Shift […]

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https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/small-craft-world/vessel-review-hydromover-all-electric-catamaran-cargo-vessel-and-testbed-for-operation-in-singapore/

Singapore’s first dedicated methanol bunkering tanker delivered

methanol bunkering tanker

Japan’s Sasaki Shipbuilding has delivered the 4,000 dwt M/T Maple, Singapore’s first dedicated methanol bunkering tanker, to Stellar Shipmanagement Services Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Energy Group,

Classed by Bureau Veritas (BV), the IMO Type 2 chemical and oil tanker is equipped with twin-screw propulsion, flow boom and a mass flow metering system, and is compliant with the current Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) licensing requirements for oil product bunker...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/singapores-first-dedicated-methanol-bunkering-tanker-delivered/

Singapore, Long Beach and Los Angeles ports unveil partnership strategy for green and digital shipping corridor

The ports of Singapore, Long Beach and Los Angeles launched a partnership strategy for a green and digital maritime corridor across the Pacific Ocean

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the port authorities of the two major Californian hubs signed an agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The strategy’s breadth of collaboration and performance metrics reinforce the corridor partners’ commitment to driving global action to digitalise, decarbonise, and enhance...

https://container-news.com/singapore-long-beach-and-los-angeles-ports-unveil-partnership-strategy-for-green-and-digital-shipping-corridor/

Pacific green corridor ports agree partnership strategy

Green corridors first got a lot of attention at the COP26 summit in 2021 when the U.S. signed on to the Clydebank Declaration for Green Shipping Corridors (DGSC). Since then, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the San Pedro Bay ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have been working on plans for a Pacific green corridor for quite a while.

Today, at COP28 in Dubai, the three port authorities unveiled a partnership strategy for a green and digital shipping corridor across the...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/pacific-green-corridor-ports-agree-partnership-strategy/

Höegh Autoliners could be bunkering clean ammonia in JAXPORT by 2027

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Höegh Autoliners and Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation have signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on the supply and delivery of clean ammonia as a next-generation sustainable maritime fuel for Höegh’s upcoming Aurora Class PCTC vessels. The agreement will see them look into the supply of clean ammonia as a bunker fuel at the ports of Singapore and Jacksonville, Fla. (JAXPORT) from 2027 onwards.

The twelve Aurora Class vessels are set to become the largest and most eco-friendly car carriers ever...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/hoegh-autoliners-could-be-bunkering-clean-ammonia-in-jaxport-by-2027/

Angola’s port of Lobito tests maritime single window

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has set up a maritime single window (MSW) platform for the Port of Lobito in Angola.

Delegates from Angola and a representative of IMO were able to test the platform at a business process study workshop in Singapore (27-30 June) as part of the Single Window for Facilitation of Trade (SWiFT) project.

More specifically, the SWiFT pilot project was launched by IMO and Singapore last year to support medium-sized ports to meet the requirements of the...

https://container-news.com/angolas-port-of-lobito-tests-maritime-single-window/

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