Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 10/2024
Eco-catamaran commissioned
Adriatic Sea | Swiss clean technology company, Bcomp, and Croatian boatbuilding specialist, Marservis, have announced the start of ferry services in the Adriatic Sea using a solar-powered ferry partly constructed with natural fibre composites. The vessel, built with Bcomp’s flax-fibre composite, ampliTexTM, is the result of 30 months of collaboration between the two companies. The PROeco ferry is deployed on short, defined routes for more than ten hours a day. Electric motors on board the 100-passenger vessel save an estimated 770kg of diesel emissions each day....