Clean Technology Adoption News

The American Bureau of Shipping said Monday that the recently ordered wind turbine Installation vessel Sembcorp Marine is building for Maersk Supply Service would be built to ABS Class.Maersk Supply Service's vessel will be capable of handling the latest generation 15MW turbines, and will be deployed for Equinor and BP’s Empire Wind project offshore the U.S.Two new feeder barges and two diesel-electric hybrid tugboat units, which will also support Empire Wind, will also be built to ABS Class by Kirby Offshore Wind (KOW)…

A 'Creating Climate Wealth Summit Germany' hosted by Carbon War Room aims to accelerate clean technology adoption. Over 90 percent of the world’s trade cargo spends time on the ocean during its journey to market, carried by any one of approximately 60,000 active commercial vessels. Although the shipping industry, relative to other freight modes, is already very energy efficient, the widespread adoption of additional market-scale clean technologies which improve hull, engine and propeller design will produce further reductions in fuel consumption. With the global financial slowdown and increasing fuel prices precipitating a restructuring of resources across the shipping industry…