Page 34: of Marine News Magazine (September 2025)

33 35

Feature

Passenger Ferries

Tim Schenck

FERRIES NATIONWIDE

FAST-TRACK

CLEAN PROPULSION

Increasingly, cleaner operations centered on reduced greenhouse gas and particulate emissions have seen wide adaption in the passenger transport space. Ultimately, hybrid propulsion (diesel electric supplemented by battery power) is giving way to fully electric propulsion with hydrogen fueling in the wings. It’s cutting edge and it’s in the early stages.

By Barry Parker 34 | MN September 2025