The Rotterdam-based Future Proof Shipping (FPS) has become part of the EU-supported project that aims to introduce two zero-emission inland waterway vessels.
The Dutch Ferus Smit has been entrusted with delivering two 6,380 dwt dry bulk carriers, the first to be handed over in spring 2022, while the other one year later.
After trialling a 50/50 mix of biofuel and marine gas oil in September 2021, the container ship Elbsummer was tanked with 100% sustainable biofuel supplied by VARO Energy at the Port of Rotterdam.
Together with its partners Trafigura and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, the Wiesbaden-based company has started the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) phase of a production plant located in the Norwegian Municipality of Sauda.
After a five-week-long journey from China, Viking Line's brand-new cruise ferry has called to the Finnish seaport, where she will get outfitted to start serving the Turku-Åland Islands-Stockholm route as of 1 March 2022.
China Merchants Jinling Shipyard in Yangzhou has been contracted to build the ninth vessel in the Vinga series, with delivery scheduled for January 2024.
Bahnoperator has started connecting the Associated British Ports' harbour in Hull with Xi'an via the Baltic Sea Bridge, a sea shipping service between Mukran and Kaliningrad.
Commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Fassmer (Berne) and Meyer (Papenburg) shipyards will jointly construct Meteor IV.
