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  • Green Fuels Research demonstrates 100% sustainable marine fuel refined from salmon farming waste – a world first

    An important stage on the long voyage to marine transport decarbonisation was reached yesterday when Green Fuels Research (GFR), a pioneer in renewable fuels, successfully demonstrated use of unblended sustainable marine fuel (SMF) at Eglwys Nunydd Reservoir near Port Talbot, South Wales. The fuel was used in a Beta Marine B14 engine aboard a motor…

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  • SPINE (Shipping and Port Interfaces in New Era)

    £1.06m awarded to a consortium led by Marine South East to create a an interface between ships, remote control centres, port operating systems and national energy infrastructure. A consortium of nine organisations led by MSE International, has been awarded £1.06 as part of the Smart Maritime Land Operations Call.  The call was launched in November…

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  • MarRI-UK announces funding for SPINE (Shipping and Port Interfaces In New Era) project

    A consortium of nine organisations led by MSE International, has been awarded £1.06 as part of the Smart Maritime Land Operations Call.  The call was launched in November 2020 as part of a Maritime Research and Innovation UK (MarRI-UK) initiative supported by the Department for Transport (DfT), aiming to fund a single project or multiple…

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  • The UK’s First Fully Electric Domestic Ferry

    The UK’s First Fully Electric Domestic Passenger Ferry led by Plymouth Boat Trips Aiming to collect, refine and advance knowledge on operating an electric ferry within Plymouth Sound, the project consortium created the UK’s first, sea going, electric passenger vessel, e-Voyager. The project brought together a range of expertise including boat builders, electrical engineers, ferry…

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  • Sustainability Through Efficient Actions in Maritime (STEAM)

    Sustainability Through Efficient Actions in Maritime (STEAM) led by Signol Putting the right piece of information in the right hands at the right time and providing operators with timely nudges to improve performance in routine tasks. The project aims to directly target the behaviour of crews in order to improve fuel efficiency. In doing so,…

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  • Energy Saving Technology (EST) Asset Leasing Models

    Energy Saving Technology (EST) Asset Leasing Models led by BMT The project investigated the potential of asset leasing for accelerating the adoption of energy saving technologies in commercial shipping. Existing asset leasing arrangements from other industries were reviewed and a concept level Asset Leasing Model (ALM) was developed with input from industry stakeholders. The research…

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  • Flow Batteries for Marine Application (Flo-Mar)

    Flow Batteries for Marine Application (FLO-MAR) led by Marine South East Aimed to confirm the feasibility of using flow batteries for onboard energy storage, and to de-risk the further development and demonstration of a pilot flow battery, Marine South East compared vessel characteristics and performance for the different flow battery types against lithium-ion, and identified…

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  • TorQ

    TorQ led by RS Sailing The project aimed to design, test, and commission a fully electric RIB with optimised hull, propulsion and electric batteries, suitable for the marine environment. Despite various technical challenges and physical size constraints, RS Sailing designed and developed a 40-kW rim drive motor, which was evolved from the original belt driven.…

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