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NOR-SHIPPING 2023

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PIONEERING PROPULSION PROJECTS

PUT NORWAY AHEAD OF THE GAME

This year’s Nor-Shipping event will highlight many awe-inspiring technologies.

But none is likely to outshine the remarkable progress that places Norway in the vanguard of propulsion and emissions technology development.

By Paul Bartlett ven if we don’t think about it much, oceans and seas tersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions play an essential role in life. Nowhere is this more from Ships later in July, the shipping industry’s adoption of evident than in Norway where almost everybody carbon-cutting technologies has never been in sharper focus.

Eknows someone who works in the broad maritime In an ocean shipping context, one of Nor-Shipping’s most ? eld – in offshore, coastal, deep-sea, ? shing, aquaculture, exciting events is likely to take place when Corvus Energy wind, and so on. And, of course, all the related shore services. reveals the latest developments in scalable battery-fuel cell

Many of the latest groundbreaking initiatives will be evident hybrids. The technology, developing fast with heavyweight at this year’s Nor-Shipping event in early June. However, since partners, will be suitable for a wide range of ship types. shipping’s decarbonization will be discussed at the IMO’s Ma- At the outset, these are likely to include offshore vessels, rine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting one coasters, ferries, ropax ships, container feeders and chemical month later and subsequently at the next meeting of the In- tankers. For larger vessels such as cruise ships, big tankers and bulkers, and arterial container ships, the technology will enable zero-emission operation in ports and emission control areas (ECAs) with scope for main propulsion systems down the line.

Development work, much of it under the radar, continues at Corvus Energy’s ‘centre of excellence’ in Bergen, where research and development, manufacturing and test facilities are located close to the company’s head of? ce.

Toyota tie-up

Key partners include Toyota, which contacted Corvus En- ergy early in 2020, prior to a formal agreement being signed off later that year. Other partners include Norwegian state en- ergy ? rm Equinor, LMG Marin, Maritime Cleantech, Norled,

University of South-eastern Norway, and Wilhelmsen.

Thor Humerfelt, a Corvus’ SVP and Product Architect, reveals

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