Through its Industrial Leap programme, the Swedish Energy Agency has granted SEK31 million (€2.9m) to Nordion Energi for making the project in question investment-decision ready.
The Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard will construct two freighters of the Stream Roro 1700 concept for the Ålandic company, with an option for an additional pair.
The shipping company from Lübeck has entrusted the Jinling Shipyard of China Merchants Industry Holdings to construct the gas-run, hybrid, 240-metre-long ro-pax.
The ceremony took place at the Austal Philippines shipyard in Balamban, marking the first construction step towards delivering the 130-metre-long high-speed ferry to her Swedish owners at Gotland Company in mid-2028.
Acwa, a Saudi energy company, EnBW, a German energy supplier, VNG, a gas importer and infrastructure operator from Leipzig, and the Port of Rostock have put their pens to a memorandum of understanding tasked with supplying Germany's energy transition with clean fuel.
The Helsinki-based supplier of raw materials and chemicals will add a new storage facility in Loviisa, slated for opening this year, and new tank capacity in Kokkola (2027).
POLSCA, which brings the Polish Polferries and Unity Line under one banner, is working to establish a new connection between the ports of Gdańsk and Karlshamn later this year.
