Six Norsepower Rotor Sails have been installed on board the Spirit of Toulouse, the lead vessel in a new fleet of three methanol dual-fuelled RoRo ships built for LD Armateurs to support transport operations for Airbus. In a statement sent to ship.energy today (15 October), Norsepower and LD Armateurs said that the installation, carried out at the Wuchang Shipbuilding yard in Shanghai, makes Spirit of Toulouse ‘not only the largest RoRo vessel in the world to be equipped with wind propulsion but also the vessel with the largest number of mechanical sails in the world’. The six Rotor Sails are […]

Sixteen companies, investors and NGOs have written to MEPs leading the European Union discussions on the revision of the EU ETS, urging them to ring-fence support for e-fuels under the proposed Sustainable Maritime Alternative Propulsion (SMAP) mechanism. SMAP is a new maritime funding mechanism, proposed as part of its EU ETS revision, that would reserve up to 110 million EU Allowances (EUAs), estimated to be worth approximately €15billion, for maritime decarbonisation. Shipping companies could claim EUAs based on their use of eligible fuels and technologies in the previous year and then sell them or use them to lower their EU […]

CLPe has today (14 October) announced it recently partnered with CNOOC (Shenzhen) International Marine Clean Energy Co. (CNOOC) to complete what it says is Hong Kong’s first LNG ship-to-ship (STS) bunkering operation for a pure car and truck carrier (PCTC). The six-hour operation, which took place on 26 September at Western Anchorage No. 3 west of Victoria Harbou, saw the 7,000 car equivalent unit (CEU) AICC Fenghuang fuelled with approximately 2,600 cubic metres of LNG by CNOOC’s Haiyang Shiyou 301 bunker vessel. ‘Through close collaboration and meticulous operational planning, CLPe and CNOOC have successfully completed Hong Kong’s first LNG bunkering […]