The UK Chamber of Shipping and Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) have today (8 September) announced the launch of the UK Alternative Maritime Fuels Coalition. The coalition, which will support a technology- and fuel-neutral policy approach ‘based on robust lifecycle emissions assessment and verifiable performance,’ brings together shipowners, fuel suppliers, producers and maritime technology developers in a bid to help accelerate the transition to lower carbon shipping. ‘The new coalition will focus on one of the biggest challenges facing maritime decarbonisation: ensuring the UK has the fuels, infrastructure and policy framework needed to support shipping’s transition to net zero,’ the […]

bound4blue has received a Design Assessment from Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore for its Model 3-24 eSAIL which was developed to maximise the use of wind propulsion on larger vessels.  The Design Assessment was presented during SMM in Hamburg last week. Over 50 of bound4blue’s eSAIL suction sail units have been ordered to date, with installations completed onboard 13 vessels. The Model 3 range spans heights from 24 metres to 36 metres, with the 3-24 becoming the first commercial installation earlier this year onboard Klaveness Combination Carriers’ newbuild MV Baltazar. The sails feature an expanded surface area and optimised aerodynamic […]

Marine engineering company Babcock LGE has developed ecoAPEX (Advanced Performance Extraction), which is a reliquefaction architecture designed to make better use of energy onboard vessels carrying fuels. Babcock LGE highlights that dual-fuel gas carriers face an inherent inefficiency as energy is used to cool boil-off gas back to liquid while at the same time fuel is heated to the temperature required by a vessel’s engines. ecoAPEX ‘consolidates these opposing energy demands,’ says the company, thereby allowing a vessel to recover more value from energy. According to Babcock LGE, at design conditions for LPG/Ammonia carriers, ecoAPEX can improve reliquefaction efficiency by […]