AecorLink, a Swedish communication Internet service provider, has been awarded by Viking Line a communication contract the aim of which is to improve Internet connectivity on-board its ships.
The Norwegian line has received from the Ulstein shipyard Color Hybrid, a plug-in hybrid cruise ferry, due to enter traffic between the ports of Sanderfjord and Strömstad on 9 August.
The Swedish Transport Administration has received from the Estonian Baltic Workboats shipyard the hybrid-electric pax-car ferry Tellus, said to be Sweden's largest of its kind.
The Swedish tech-company Nowhere Networks works together with a number of shipping lines to provide passengers with high speed and low latency connection during their voyage.
After trialling the solutions developed by the Sea Traffic Management (STM) project on-board the ships of its Costa and Aida brands, the corporation's entire fleet is now using them.
The Danish shipping company will put to the test the electric, connected, and autonomous vehicle which will transport goods from DFDS' logistics centre to APM's terminal in the Gothenburg port.
At the expense of €1.2m, of which one-third came from the State of Schleswig-Holstein, the Port of Kiel has put in place its first onshore power supply (OPS) facility.
