Long Beach, Calif.-headquartered Harbor Breeze Cruises has selected Bellingham, Wash., shipbuilder All American Marine (AAM) a contract to design andc construct a 108-foot parallel hybrid passenger vessel that will exceed U.S, EPA Tier 4 and California Air Resources Board (CARB) air quality requirement.
$31M CARB grant will help Catalina Express and Harbor Breeze start emission-reduction projects
As we reported previously, Harbor Breeze is one of two operators partnering with the Port of Los...
Singapore-headquartered Berge Bulk has adopted San Francisco based Sofar Ocean’s Wayfinder voyage optimization platform across its fleet of owned vessels, including new vessels equipped with wind propulsion technology.
Berge Bulk uses Wayfinder’s dynamic voyage optimization to save fuel, time, and emissions. The solution makes use of the best available weather and vessel data. — powered by Sofar’s own global network of ocean sensors — and data-driven vessel performance models that are...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/berge-bulk-deploys-sofar-ocean-voyage-optimization-fleetwide/
LAS VEGAS — The Advanced Clean Truck Expo is a come-all event. Until this year, Tesla has passed on attending.
The ACT Expo has outgrown the art deco charm of Long Beach and the “Disney-fied” atmosphere of Anaheim, California. This year, it moved to convention mecca with exhibitors filling the North Hall of the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center. It returns to Anaheim in 2025, occupying both halls of the convention center in 2025.
Dozens of battery electric, fuel-cell electric and alternative...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tesla-to-trucking-industry-step-up-your-electric-game
There’s a growing interest in subsea vessels able to work in both the oil and gas and offshore wind sectors and now Norway’s Rem Offshore and Myklebust Verft have signed a contract for the construction of an “Energy Subsea Construction Vessel “ (ESCV) that meets that requirement.
Fitted with a 250-tonne crane the ESCV will be delivered in 2026 .The contract also contains an option to build a second vessel.
The vessel will be a first of its kind that can perform heavy construction work in both the...
Dong Kwan Kim, Vice Chairman of South Korean business conglomerate Hanwha Group, has unveiled a new vision for the decarbonization of shipping and introduced Hanwha’s plans to build a zero-emission gas carrier at the 2024 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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There will be a range of costs expected from switching to zero-emission containerships in deep-sea and coastal routes, a recent report from UMAS finds.
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The U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles has named Long Beach Container Terminal its “Sustainable Innovation Project of the Year.”
Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT), one of the busiest cargo-handling terminals in the world, was honored for the scale and positive impact of its 15-year effort to convert its cranes and cargo-handling vehicles to zero-emission electric.
The massive effort has resulted in an 86% reduction in greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions to date, while...
HALLERED, Sweden — The plume of white smoke from Volvo’s fuel cell truck matched the white clouds in the Scandinavian sky. Stand too close and you feel the descending mist of water vapor.
The hydrogen tanks sweat just droplets at first. Then comes the release of about a liter of water, approximately the amount the 100-kilowatt fuel cell produces per kilometer traveled.
On a spin around the track at Volvo’s high-security proving ground about an hour east of its Gothenburg headquarters in southern...
Emissions from a FuelCell Energy plant will help supply water for a car wash for incoming Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles at the Port of Long Beach, California.
It is one of three renewable energy uses at Toyota’s port vehicle processing center. The company claims it is the first to use 100% renewable electricity generated on site.
Toyota and FuelCell Energy Inc. claim the plant models how stationary fuel cell technology can reduce emissions from commercial operations.
Danbury, Connecticut-based...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/toyota-will-use-fuel-cell-emissions-to-supply-a-car-wash