Tag: Ferries
Brunvoll Propulsion Systems for Torghatten Nord’s Hydrogen Ferries
The hydrogen powered ferries are designed for the Lofoten area. (Illustration by The Norwegian Ship Design Company) Brunvoll has been contracted to deliver the propulsion, manoeuvring and autonomy systems for two hydrogen powered ferries for TorgHatten Nord AS. The ferries will operate the harsh route to and from Lofoten in Norway, more specifically the Bodø-Verøy-Røst-Moskenes…
HAV Design contracted to design autonomous zero-emission ferries
Norway-based HAV Design has signed a contract to design and develop four newbuild, autonomous zero-emission ferries that will operate the Lavik-Oppedal crossing on the northwest coast of Norway. Under the contract, HAV Design will deliver ship design and an engineering package for all four autonomous ferries. The ship design is based on a future-oriented operating…
BV SOLUTIONS M&O delivers efficiency AND EMISSIONS ‘forecast’ WEB application to BritTany Ferries
Paris La Défense, January, 19, 2024 – Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore (BV Solutions M&O) has developed and now delivered a ‘Fleet Energy and Emissions Forecast‘ tool to Brittany Ferries, the European Ferry operator with routes between France, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain. Brittany Ferries approached Bureau Veritas Solutions (BVS), the technical advisory component…
Argentina charges ahead with Torqeedo: electric passenger ferries will transform public transportation.
The Delta del Paraná in Argentina is the only river delta on earth that empties into another river, creating an 8,400 square-mile wetlands paradise just one hour from Buenos Aires. For the families who call the delta’s 1,000 tiny islands home, the “lanchas colectivas” – vintage mahogany wood passenger ferries powered by old diesel engines…
Wärtsilä signs Electrification and Integration Services agreement for USA’s first zero-emission high speed ferries project
Technology group Wärtsilä has signed a strategic partnership agreement to provide its Fleet Electrification and Systems Integrator Services for a project to build the first zero-emission high speed ferries in the USA. The fully electric vessels will be built for San Francisco’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA), the operator of the San Francisco Bay Ferry…
Leclanché Selected to Supply Battery Systems for a Second Pair of CMAL Hybrid Ferries Serving Scotland’s Outer Hebrides Islands
Leclanché SA (SIX: LECN) has been selected for a second battery system project on behalf of Scotland’s Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL)– this time for a pair of roll-on, roll-off passenger and vehicle ferries (RoPax) which will serve three islands in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands. The contract for two 1.1 MWh Navius MRS-3TM Marine Rack…
