ClassNK has released “Guidelines for the Safe Transportation of Electric Vehicles” and “List of Fire Safety Measures for the Maritime Transportation of Electric Vehicles” to support in enhancing the safety of maritime transportation of electric vehicles. The number of EVs transported by vessels has increased in recent years. However, there are concerns regarding fires in
Central think tank NITI Aayog and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed a memorandum of understanding to formalise a cooperative framework to fast-track India’s pursuit to achieve its sustainable development goals (SDGs), the Aayog said. The memorandum of understanding will focus on the two organisations’ cooperation on a range of areas, including SDG localisation,
Blue Energy Motors has announced that it has secured an order from Container Corporation of India Ltd (CONCOR) for the supply of 100 LNG-powered trucks. A Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Railways, CONCOR is among India’s leading containerised multimodal logistics services companies and helps develop multimodal transport and logistics infrastructure to support India’s growing
Malaysia’s top shipping line, MISC, and South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have completed a conceptual design for a floating CO2 storage unit with the aim of enhancing the efficiency of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain within the maritime industry. The floater, designed with a total storage capacity of 100,000 cu
Methylcyclohexane (MCH), a type of organic hydride, is expected to be an excellent hydrogen carrier because it remains liquid at room temperature, is easy to transport, has low toxicity, and has a higher hydrogen density than high-pressure hydrogen. Dehydrogenation—the process of removing hydrogen atoms from molecules—in the presence of a catalyst, yields hydrogen and the
The port of Rotterdam has for the first time refuelled a methanol-powered container ship as the shipping industry turns to the technology to cut its emissions, methanol producer OCI Global said. The Maersk-owned (MAERSKb.CO) ship began its 21,500 km (13,359 mile) journey to Copenhagen from South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard on July 10. It also
BP will trial carinata plant oil as a new feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel during a seven-day trial in September at its Lingen refinery, Germany, amid an intensifying scramble for limited feedstocks. The site became the first in Germany in February 2022 to manufacture SAF from used cooking oil, the company said. SAF currently commands
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari unveiled the prototype of the world’s first Bharat Stage (BS)-VI-compliant electrified flex-fuel car, developed by Toyota Kirloskar Motor. The car, which runs on 100 per cent ethanol (E100), is based on the Toyota Innova HyCross. It can cover 40 per cent of its distance on ethanol
The Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has begun the process to set up its first green hydrogen generation plant in Panipat at 10 KTA (thousands tonnes per annum) capacity. The big project will be coming up in the next 30 months. The IOCL on Monday invited global tenders for setting up the unit next to
Nearly three years after Reliance Industries (RIL) announced its target to bring down the cost of green hydrogen production to $1 per kilogram in India, its chairman Mukesh Ambani on August 28 said the company has now chalked out a roadmap towards achieving the target. In September, 2021, Ambani, while addressing the International Climate Summit,