Maersk has teamed with Trident Maritime Systems to create a 600 kWh container battery that can be placed on a container-hauling ship to provide power. The battery is now en route to be installed ...

Shipping giant A.P. Moller Maersk A/S is fast-tracking efforts to transition to carbon-neutral ship operations with plans to add in two years what would be the first container ship running on biofuel.

Updated - December 01, 2024 at 05:07 PM. Maersk Halifax has become the world’s first large container ship to be converted into a dual-fuel vessel sailing on methanol.

If Maersk is unable to get enough sustainable fuel by 2023, its new ship has this fallback option — though using it would void the vessel’s “carbon-neutral” credentials.

Maersk is studying various alternative fuels in pursuit of its goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. The dual-fuel engine runs on green methanol as well as traditional marine fuels.

A Maersk spokeswoman confirmed that on April 28, the container vessel Maersk Sana was en route from Newark to Singapore when it experienced “machinery-related issues in the main engine room”.

The newly developed waste heat recovery system "Hydrocurrent Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Module 125EJW" 1 by MHI Marine Machinery & Engine Co., Ltd.

Triple E mega-ship Morten Maersk - among the largest globally with a capacity of 18,000 standard containers - plys the Asia to North Europe route, calling at Singapore along the way.

The first Maersk WIV is now being built at Seatrium in Singapore, and it’s expected to be delivered in mid-2025. Its first project will be Equinor’s Empire Offshore Wind in New York State.

Maersk vessels sustained zero damage from slowing since the Copenhagen-based owner began lowering speeds to cut fuel costs in 2007, Jan de Kat, Maersk senior technical adviser, said by phone Sept. 30.