Marine Technology & Innovation

Home Clean Fuel Evergreen splashes out $3 billion on new LNG dual-fuel containerships February 13, 2025, by Ajsa Habibic Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen Marine Corporation has placed an order worth around $3 billion for new LNG dual-fuel containerships at South Korean and Chinese shipyards. Evergreen’s Ever Acme. Image credit Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding According to the company’s […]

Home Green Marine Swift action needed to bring autonomous inland shipping closer to reality, German insurers say January 10, 2025, by Naida Hakirevic Prevljak From a purely technical perspective, it would be already possible today to allow inland waterway vessels to travel across rivers unmanned and remotely controlled. However, as there are still many legal

Quantum computing can revolutionize the paradigm in many industries, such as healthcare, energy safe-keepers, emerging technologies, and logistic systems. This technology’s main apparatus is qubits. However, to build a practical quantum computer, the need to cool these qubits to near absolute zero is an obstacle that needs to be overcome. Researchers at Chalmers University of

XOcean has secured $115mn to expand its fleet of uncrewed surface vessels. Founded in 2017 by former CEO of Open Hydro James Ives, XOcean builds autonomous boats that zip around the ocean, using sensors to gather large amounts of data on everything from subsurface structures to the temperature and clarity of the seawater.  The bots