The SeaShuttle project has been awarded €6m by the government of Norway to work on launching onto the market autonomous container ships powered by fuel cells.
Finferries, a state-owned ferry operator, and Rolls-Royce have successfully carried out what is said to be the first fully autonomous ferry crossing in the world.
After successful trials carried out together with the Chalmers University of Technology, the Swedish Transport Agency has installed a sulphur sensing device on the Øresund/Öresund Bridge.
The Swedish port is investing in what will most probably be the world's first automated high bay storage for paper rolls, to be erected just next to the existing container terminal.
Wärtsilä will invest approx. €200m in setting up a completely new centre of research, product development and production in Vaskiluoto in the Finnish Vaasa, due to come online in 2020.
The port authority and the Jyväskylä-based company have signed a contract under which the two will jointly work towards building a smart digital port with the use of 3D inspection technology.
The fleet of cargo handling equipment of the Russian Port of Bronka has grown with the delivery of two brand-new diesel-powered Hyster Fortens H5.0FT forklift trucks.
FinFerries' hybrid electric-diesel ferry has been named the Electric & Hybrid Propulsion System of the Year during the Electric & Hybrid Marine World Expo 2018.
