Wind turbine blades made of wood offer a sustainable option, the Hessian start-up (2021) Voodin Blade Technology is convinced and has installed the world's first prototype installation of its wind turbine blades made of 100% biodegradable wood over 19 metres long on an existing wind turbine in Breuna, north-west of Kassel. After two years of thorough laboratory testing, the...
The world's fifth-largest shipping company has committed to reducing its absolute greenhouse gas emissions by around a third by 2030 and to net-zero fleet operations by 2045. This is to be achieved through the modernisation of the fleet, new drive technologies and research into and procurement of CO2-neutral alternative fuels (e-fuels), such as "green" methanol. Already since...
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has dismissed several appeals by Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) against the operating licence for the gas pipeline between the port of Mukran and Lubmin. This means that the approximately 50-kilometre-long gas pipeline operated by Gascade, which connects the LNG terminal in Sassnitz-Mukran to the gas pipeline network in Lubmin to the east of...
United European Car Carriers (UECC), an innovative Norwegian maritime transport company, has been investing in alternative fuels for years and more than doubled the use of biofuels in its fleet of ships last year. The shipping company's goal is to reduce emissions by at least 45 per cent by 2030. After all, the low-emission concepts save port charges and, as a shipping company,...
The 1st International "March of Appreciation - for our emergency services" will take place at the official start of the 130th Kiel Week on 22 June 2024. A barrier-free circuit of around 10 kilometres invites you to "march" across Kiel Week. Afterwards, there will not only be refreshments available at the Kiel naval base - there...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Large Structures in Production Technology (Fraunhofer IGP) will be conducting research on the former site of the engine manufacturer Caterpillar in Warnemünde in future. The researchers at the new hydrogen application centre, which will open in May 2024, are investigating how climate-damaging emissions in shipping can be reduced and how ships can be made even more sustainable as a means of transport.
A cyber espionage group originating from China called "Mustang Panda" is alleged to have planted malware to take over computer systems of European shipping companies in Norway, Greece and the Netherlands. "Mustang Panda" has already been accused of espionage against governments and organisations in Asia, Australia and Europe and has used similar malware tools in the past.
The "Greenwater 01" (project no. N997) developed by China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO) is designed for long-haul transport, is 120 metres long and, with a payload of 10,000 tonnes for up to 700 "twenty-foot standard containers" (TEU - Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit), is the largest fully electric container ship in the world to date. The "Greenwater 01" was launched...
The Danish government has announced a regulation that will ban the discharge of ship wastewater from open exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers) into Danish territorial waters from 1 July 2025. Scrubbers are used to comply with the limit value for the sulphur content of exhaust gases set by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in 2020. Exhaust gas cleaning systems of this kind use a...
Current fire extinguishing systems are inadequate for fighting engine room fires involving methanol-based engines, according to a new fire safety study. Engine fires In light of the growing interest in methanol as an alternative marine fuel, the study by the British company SURVITEC, a global provider of survival technologies, carried out extensive and comparative fire tests on marine engines in order to determine the...
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