An electric barge will soon quietly carry cargo along inland waterways in The Netherlands, powered by batteries housed in a shipping container. Dutch company Wärtsilä designed the barge, and is ...

Large container ships that carry goods all over the world are massive sources of pollution, and we've seen some interesting ideas around how to curtail their emissions, such as massive sails and ...

Port authorities in Busan, South Korea, will build a "smart" container that will hopefully make lithium-ion battery transport safer. In order to do that, Busan is working with Vesta (South Korea’s ...

Designing an electric cargo ship isn’t as easy as making an electric car—and until recently, most experts would have argued that battery-electric ships weren’t feasible for traveling across oceans. A ...

The Zero Emission Port Alliance (ZEPA) has launched a load profile tool, transition guide and updated voluntary standards to ...

The shipping industry has a predisposition to assuming that molecules are required for energy. Some of that is simply that the history of shipping for the past two hundreds years has required them.