Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 06/2024
Zero-emission boxship project launched
Japanese coast | Japan’s container feeder operator, Imoto Lines, and software firm Marindows have embarked on a zero-emission container ship project for operation on the Japanese coast. An initiative within the Ministry of the Environment’s three-year ‘Carbon Neutral Technology Research and Development Program’, the ship will be free of carbon emissions both at sea and in port. The Japanese project has been developed as a strategy for meeting three major challenges which, some might say, are faced universally by the global shipping industry today – decarbonisation, a growing shortage of seafarers, and safe navigation....