The ferry & ro-ro line has introduced a new concept of shipping, both for freight & passengers, who can now choose to sail fully electric or with biofuel in place of fossil bunker.
The Danish seaport, the Esbjerg Municipality, and INEOS Energy have hosted the groundbreaking ceremony for a terminal, part of what is hailed as the first full value chain for carbon capture & storage (CCS) in the EU.
The bunker, made from 100% waste and residue raw materials, is said to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 90% over the fuel's life cycle vs fossil diesel.
The shipping company from the Danish Skagen has received the first (in a series of five) tanker of the Hybrid Solution Plus class, with a deadweight of 15,000 and 14 segregations.
The seaports of Ventspils and Chornomorsk have signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at planning and developing future transport and logistics flows.
The Danish seaport completed (on time & under budget) the Connecting Europe Facility-funded NORTHERNSEALYTS project that saw its fairway dredged from 9.3 to 12.8 metres.
The two have signed a letter of intent to develop the Port of Hanko's Koverhar Harbour into an offshore wind energy (OWE) hub for the 250-turbine-big, 4,000-megawatt-strong Noatun Åland North OWE farm.
WALLENIUS SOL has successfully carried out sea trials of the brand-new ro-ro, which is due to replace ML Freyja on the Turku-Southern Paldiski-Bremerhaven-Zeebrugge-Tilbury-Cuxhaven service.
The Danish seaport saw the completion of the fifth phase of its expansion, with over four million cubic metres of sand & clay moved and repurposed to create 570 thousand square metres of new port areas.
