{"id":2444,"date":"2022-06-29T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/06\/29\/greener-short-sea-shipping\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:57:07","slug":"greener-short-sea-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/projects-initiatives-greenport\/greener-short-sea-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Greener short sea shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enova funding award has been granted to Ocean Infinity and Samskip to develop vessels which will operate between Norway and the Netherlands, creating one of Europe\u2019s first zero-emission maritime \u2018green corridors\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Samskip, sustainability is one of the fundamentals of doing business. The SeaShuttle project is a substantial step in Samskip\u2019s journey towards zero emission logistics,\u201d said Kari-Pekka Laaksonen, Group CEO, Samskip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts combination of fuel, technology and operational best practice is expected to make emissions-free shortsea shipping cost competitive with existing solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christoffer Jorgenvag, Ocean Infinity CCO added that the SeaShuttle project is just part of Ocean Infinity\u2019s overall strategy of unlocking innovation to deliver truly sustainable maritime operations.<\/p>\n<p>The project will see the partners build and operate two new SeaShuttle container vessels, for which they will also be developing and integrating a hydrogen fuel cell power systems, delivering up to 3.2Mw of power.<\/p>\n<p>Partial funding of \u20ac15M towards the SeaShuttle programme will be provided by Enova, which focuses on contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement, building on the COP26 Clydebank Declaration commitment to establishing a global network of green corridors by 2025, signals the beginning of an exciting collaboration between Samskip B.V. and Ocean Infinity to deliver zero-emission multi-modal logistics globally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero-emission, remotely operated short sea vessels will bring greener shipping to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[560,120,561,558,559,557,356],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-enova","tag-europe","tag-green-corridors","tag-ocean-infinity","tag-samski","tag-seashuttle","tag-short-sea-shipping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}