Australian energy company Global Energy Ventures (GEV) has secured approval in principle (AiP) from classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for compressed hydrogen carrier design with a 430-tonne cargo capacity.

As informed, ABS granted the AiP following a review of GEV’s design in accordance with the ABS “Guidance Notes on Review and Approval of Novel Concepts” incorporating relevant principles from the ABS guides.

GEV’s Handymax design will be able to enter most ports and will be equipped with a dual-fuel engine powering generators coupled to two electric drive fixed pitch propellers or a dynamic positioning system.

The AIP for the design, which GEV intends to be the first commercial-scale vessel available for the marine transport of hydrogen, follows an ABS AiP which GEV received in July this year for a compressed hydrogen vessel with a 2,000-tonne capacity.

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Denmark, the United States, the United Kingdom and several other states have called on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to introduce more ambitious climate goals for shipping by adopting climate-neutral shipping goal by 2050 as well as sub-goals by 2030 and 2040.

As disclosed, the initiative was presented at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.

Together, they launched a joint declaration with the support of a number of countries calling for shipping to be climate neutral by 2050 and stressing the importance of political action now.

Belgium, Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, the Marshall Islands, Norway, Panama and Sweden also signed the maritime sector declaration.

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Leading shipping nations press IMO to adopt more ambitious climate goals for shipping

The shipping industry is in danger of losing out on a huge opportunity to make impactful and immediate gains in tackling the climate emergency, by only focusing on a narrow set of measures and having a preoccupation with new fuels, according to a new group of maritime technology companies and other maritime organisations.

The group – whose initial participants include Airseas, Houlder, NAPA, Norsepower, and I-Tech – today called for the industry, including the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and EU, to promote more investment in energy efficiency and renewable propulsion technologies so the maritime industry does not miss the huge and immediate opportunity to save time and money.

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Maritime tech group: Energy efficiency technologies deserve greater priority

In a new policy paper, European shipowners have supported a dedicated fund to be set up under the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) to stabilise the carbon price.

The policy paper on the EU ETS ECSA was published on 2 November by the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA).

ECSA also believes that any revenues generated under the EU ETS should be used to financially support R&D projects and should contribute to lowering the price differential between cleaner and conventional fuels.

The EU ETS proposal makes a reference in Recitals 33 and 35 to the financing of the decarbonisation of the sector under the innovation fund, including through the carbon contracts for difference. However, there is no legally binding commitment in the articles of the proposal to earmark revenues for the shipping sector.

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PUBLISHED NOV 1, 2021 10:22 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE

Norwegian oil major Equinor has unveiled a new floating wind platform design that it will incorporate into its bid for the massive ScotWind offshore lease offering. The design represents a departure from Equinor’s unique and well-known Hywind spar platform, which it used for its Hywind Scotland demonstration project.

Equinor’s new “Wind Semi” is a standard semisubmersible wind turbine foundation, with three floatation columns connected by steel beams. Illustrations suggest a strong resemblance to other firms’ floating-wind designs, like the Principle Power model used at the Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm.

If Equinor is successful in its bid, it plans to install a one gigawatt floating offshore wind farm in a single project. According to Equinor, the new semisubmersible platform has been designed specifically to suit local fabrication and assembly capabilities in Scotland, allowing for more local content.

“By leveraging our twenty years of floating offshore wind experience and innovations, we plan to develop GW-size floating projects in one single phase,” says Sonja C. Indrebø, Equinor VP of floating offshore wind. “This project would be over 30 times bigger than Hywind Scotland, the UK’s and Equinor’s first floating project, and [would] have the potential to not only position Scotland as a leader in deep water technology, but also create opportunities for both existing suppliers and new entrants.”

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PUBLISHED NOV 1, 2021 7:23 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE

On Monday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued four fishermen who had gone aground on a rocky shore at Black Rock, Kodiak Island.

Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center received a distress call from the master of the fishing vessel Laura at 0700 hours. He reported that the vessel had run aground and that the crew planned to abandon ship using their life rafts.

Sector watchstanders directed the launch of an Air Station Kodiak C-130 Hercules aircrew and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew. The aircrews were able to find the fishermen with the assistance of a good Samaritan fishing vessel, the Stillwater.

On scene, the air temperature was about 39 degrees, water temperature of 43 degrees and winds blowing about 25 mph – hazardous conditions for exposure. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk  aircrew deployed a rescue swimmer, hoisted the crewmembers aboard, and safely transported them back to the station.

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“We want to stress the importance of having proper survival gear on board in case of emergencies,” said Lt. Jacob Rettig, an Air Station Kodiak operations duty officer. “In this case, the crew had survival suits, flares, and strobe lights, which aided in locating and rescuing the crew safely and efficiently.”

According to the Coast Guard, there is a maximum of about 4,000 gallons of diesel on board the Laura. There have been no reports of pollution to date, and an investigation into the cause of the grounding is under way.

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