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Green Ship Technologies
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GREEN BATTERIES
BATTERY
Scandlines/ Horst Dieter Foerster
The past decade has seen tight restrictions on emissions from vessels, notably with a 2015 move to a .10 percent sulfur maximum in Emission Control Areas (ECA) in North
America and in northern Europe. As the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) now shapes shipping’s decarbonization future, shipowners are looking at transitions away from fossil fuels. Among the myriad of alternatives are lithium ion batteries and some early forays into hydrogen fuel cells.
By Barry Parker 32 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • May 2021
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