The delivery saw two 1.9 MW Azipod units installed on each of the two 21,500 dwt transshipment bulkers, constructed at Chengxi Shipyard, as part of a package of electric, digital, and connected solutions from ABB.
The company's own Optima Seaways, together with the chartered Visby and Kerry, will ply between Rosslare and Dunkirk six times per week in both directions.
UTLC ERA, Belintertrans-Germany (BIT-Germany), and Liski have partnered to run a 50 FEU-big container train from Chongqing to Sławków that avoids gauge change in Europe.
CFL Multimodal, Stena Line, and the ports of Rostock and Trelleborg have partnered to launch a new train-ferry route between Bettembourg in Luxemburg and Sweden's Trelleborg.
The company's Marine & Ports division has opened the facility to stress-test cyber threats, so as to help the shipping industry in adjusting itself to the stricter maritime cyber security rules that will enter into force on 1 January 2021.
The Scottish ferry operator & port managing company has entrusted the Edinburgh-based software group to provide it with a port management information system.
A consortium of 14 European partners will work on the design and construction of a ro-ro demonstration vessel that will run on liquid green hydrogen (LH2) as well as on the establishment of an LH2 supply chain and bunkering platform.
The works, to be carried out by STRABAG, will cover 200 m of the port infrastructure in question and will include extending it by four metres towards the sea with the use of a pile wall.
The Danish shipping line and its partners - ABB, Ballard Power Systems Europe, Hexagon Purus, Lloyd's Register, KNUD E. HANSEN, Ørsted, and Danish Ship Finance - have applied for money from the EU Innovation Fund to build a ro-pax equipped with proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.
