Bore Wind, the third & final vessel for carrying containers and ro-ro cargo units ordered by the Finnish shipping line, received her name in Amsterdam.
The Swedish Terntank has carried out the first connection to an onshore power supply (OPS) facility, at the Port of Gävle, with a tanker - though without any electricity running through the cable.
The facility, operated by Associated Danish Ports, will get a 97k m2 warehouse, upping its total storage space to over 200k m2 (and 300k m2 after adding other logistics premises).
ScandiNAOS, the Chalmers University of Technology, and the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) have launched a project to develop dual-fuel kits for converting new and existing diesel engines (up to 1,000kW) to methanol operation.
Through its new digital queuing system Time Slot Gävle, the Swedish seaport is abandoning the 'first come-first served' scheme for vessels calling to one of its energy harbour's seven terminals.
