{"id":5464,"date":"2025-07-09T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/07\/09\/hydrogen-vessels-chart-a-cleaner-future-for-short-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:17:01","slug":"hydrogen-vessels-chart-a-cleaner-future-for-short-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/hydrogen-vessels-chart-a-cleaner-future-for-short-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen vessels chart a cleaner future for short sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamburg-based engineering firm has secured two key contracts for hydrogen-based propulsion systems from Samskip and&nbsp;M\u00f8re Sj\u00f8, helping to advance short sea shipping with zero-emission solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese projects are a significant milestone for eCap Marine and the maritime energy transition,\u201d said Lars Ravens, managing director at eCap Marine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur integrated hydrogen systems are now at the core of two groundbreaking vessels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hydrogen expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The contracts for both vessels was secured at this year\u2019s Nor-Shipping trade fair in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>Global logistics provider Samskip selected eCap Marine to equip its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/environment-and-sustainability\/changing-the-face-of-short-sea-shipping\/1491691.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SeaShuttle short-sea container vessels<\/a>, currently under construction at Cochin Shipyard in India, with 3.2 MW PEM hydrogen fuel cells.<\/p>\n<p>These will be the world\u2019s first container ships to operate on green hydrogen, marking a major development in sustainable shipping. Delivery is expected in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Norwegian shipowner M\u00f8re Sj\u00f8 has contracted eCap Marine to supply onboard hydrogen power for two 85-metre emission-free bulk carriers being built in T\u00fcrkiye. Each will feature 1.7 MW fuel cells and a 2-tonne hydrogen tank system for clean coastal operations.<\/p>\n<p>eCap Marine said it is one of the few maritime suppliers offering complete hydrogen integration for operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eCap Marine is to supply hydrogen power systems for multiple newbuild short sea container vessels for two key market vessel operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[2177,356],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-products-services-greenport","tag-ecap-marine","tag-short-sea-shipping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","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=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}