The shipping line has decided that nine out of the 16 vehicle carriers it put into a cold lay-up back in early/mid-2020 will re-enter traffic during Q1 2021.
The Norwegian port, backed by Maritime CleanTech cluster and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, eyes securing about €25m from Horizon 2020, the EU's funding programme for research and innovation.
A consortium of 14 European partners will work on the design and construction of a ro-ro demonstration vessel that will run on liquid green hydrogen (LH2) as well as on the establishment of an LH2 supply chain and bunkering platform.
The Danish shipping line and its partners - ABB, Ballard Power Systems Europe, Hexagon Purus, Lloyd's Register, KNUD E. HANSEN, Ørsted, and Danish Ship Finance - have applied for money from the EU Innovation Fund to build a ro-pax equipped with proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.
The Norwegian Sea-Cargo will launch at the turn of the year a new route, linking the ports of Gothenburg, Stavanger, Bergen, Sunndal, Ålesund, and Świnoujście on a weekly basis.
As of 2 November, the Copenhagen-Frederikshavn-Oslo route will be served by a single ro-pax (Pearl Seaways), instead of two (Crown Seaways), with departures every second day as opposed to daily.
Stena Line, Stena Rederi, Stena Recycling and its daughter company Batteryloop, the ports of Gothenburg and Kiel, and DNV GL have partnered to run an EU-backed project to investigate the re-use of Li-on batteries for charging ships during port calls.
The Norwegian rail freight haulier Cargonet has connected the Port of Gothenburg's Arken Intermodal Terminal with Oslo, running a 580 m-long train in both directions once per week.
