The Danish shipping line and its partners - ABB, Ballard Power Systems Europe, Hexagon Purus, Lloyd's Register, KNUD E. HANSEN, Ørsted, and Danish Ship Finance - have applied for money from the EU Innovation Fund to build a ro-pax equipped with proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.
The Norwegian Sea-Cargo will launch at the turn of the year a new route, linking the ports of Gothenburg, Stavanger, Bergen, Sunndal, Ålesund, and Świnoujście on a weekly basis.
On 25 November, Polferries's Mazovia and Unity Line's Skania called to the Swedish port's brand-new port area, completed with the help of EU funds after one and a half years of construction works.
The initiative has been launched by the City of Gothenburg and the trade and industry development company Business Region Göteborg, with the Gothenburg Port Authority (GPA) as the first to introduce a procurement system that includes the new stipulations.
Following Stena Line's move from Nynäshamn to Norvik as part of its service to and from Ventspils, the company's Stena Flavia has inaugurated the port's ro-ro operations.
The Swedish Maritime Administration and the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency have commissioned the Helsinki-headquartered engineering company with designing a new model of more effective, cheaper, and greener icebreakers.
N.C. Nielsen has supplied Uddevalla Hamnterminal, a stevedore in charge of freight handling in the Swedish Port of Uddevalla, with a reachstacker that can lift up to 100t.
Thanks to the grant, the Swedish and Finnish ports, between which an EU Motorway of the Sea (MoS) runs, will carry out a joint project tasked with reducing ship-caused emissions as well as streamlining ferry operations.
Due to unsatisfactory volumes, the Paldiski-Hanko route has been terminated - for this reason Patria Seaways, the ferry serving the link, has been moved onto the Paldiski-Kapellskär service.
