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Houlder, the design and engineering consultancy with sustainability at its core, has developed a new tool for analysing ship performance and evaluating efficiency options, including energy efficiency technologies – also known as energy-saving devices or clean technologies.   The Houlder Optimisation & Modelling Environment, HOME™, uses the...

  Seattle-based naval architecture firm Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) has reached an agreement with Wärtsilä to develop a barge-mounted cold ironing system that runs on methanol. The announcement confirms an arrangement the firms reached late last year.  EBDG's Clean Harbor Alternative Mobile Power (CHAMP) system is designed...

  As western powers continue to sanction Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine, the country has lost membership in the Danube Commission, effective March 1. This decision was adopted by member states last December during the commission’s 100th Jubilee Session. “The Session took note of the...