Dubai-headquartered DP World has announced it has reached an agreement in principle with the Fujairah Ports Authority under a 50-year concession to develop two new terminals on the UAE’s east coast — the Al Rugaylat container and multi-purpose terminal, and the Dibba General Cargo terminal. In a statement issued today (22 July), DP World said the project will establish a new deep-water trade gateway on the UAE’s east coast, capable of handling the latest generation of ultra large container vessels. Al Rugaylat is designed to handle up to 2.5 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) annually, alongside 1.7 million tonnes of […]

Finland-based Norsepower has announced that its proprietary force measurement technology for wind-assisted ship propulsion (WASP) has been independently validated by RISE technology infrastructure SSPA Maritime Centre.  The evaluation was carried out onboard MV Chinook Oldendorff, which, as previously reported by ship.energy, is equipped with three Norsepower Rotor Sails. According to Norsepower, the validation ranks among the first third-party validations of a continuous performance monitoring system for wind propulsion. The company highlighted that while measuring the thrust generated by a WASP device is the most direct way to quantify its performance, doing so reliably, over long periods of operation, and translating […]

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) has informed ship.energy that Norden has become the first maritime operator to achieve its Book & Claim Trader Certification, allowing the dry bulk and tanker operator to register and transfer Book & Claim Units (BCUs) in its RSB Book & Claim Registry. BCUs record the ‘sustainability attributes’ (such as emissions savings) of a sustainable maritime fuel (such as biofuel) physically used on the ship and produce digital units that are traded on the RSB Book & Claim Registry. Every BCU represents one tonne of a fuel certified as sustainable by a recognised certification scheme […]