The Finnish manufacturer of wind-assisted propulsion, in the form of modern automatic Flettner rotors, has been commissioned by MOL to install two sails on a 200k dwt dry bulker.
UECC's latest hybrid gas-run car carrier has berthed at the Port of Gothenburg, where she received her name and joined the weekly service that links the Swedish seaport with Zeebrugge, Drammen and Esbjerg.
BHP, Pan Pacific Copper (PPC; part of JX Nippon Mining & Metals), and Norsepower will conduct a technical assessment toward retrofitting the combination carrier Koryu with a wind-assisted propulsion system.
The parties have teamed up to further develop the Battery Short-Circuit Limiter (BSCL) protection device for large-scale battery solutions and advanced DC power distribution.
The vehicle carrier, a JV between NYK Line and Wallenius Lines, has launched a weekly connection between the ports of Drammen, Esbjerg, Gothenburg, and Zeebrugge.
The AE66 link sees cargoes sea-routed from China, Japan and Korea to the Russian Vostochny Port, where the load is transhipped onto Trans-Siberian trains heading for Kaliningrad.
Within the MEGURI2040 project, led by The Nippon Foundation, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and its partners have carried out two port-to-port autonomous sailings with a coastal container ship and a ferry.
With the help of the project partners Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and ClassNK, K Line has successfully tested a demonstration plant for carbon dioxide capture installed on the coal carrier Corona Utility.
