Wärtsilä Corporation has opened its new technology centre in Vaasa, on the west coast of Finland. Named the Sustainable Technology Hub (STH), the new centre will concentrate its efforts to advance the global decarbonisation in the fields of marine and energy technologies.
Global plague, followed by the winds of war? The marine industry has had a rather unusual couple of years. For the most part, the industry is united in fighting COVID and condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine.
M/S Finneco I – the first of Finnlines three new hybrid ro-ro vessels – was delivered on 28 April 2022 from the Jinling shipyard. The new ship will start operations in June, at first on the Bay of Biscay route between Kotka and Bilbao. The two other hybrid Finneco ships will soon follow as they, too, are ready for delivery to Finnlines in early summer of 2022.
Cruise lines and cruise ferries were seriously affected by Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and other restrictions, but some glints of a better future can already be seen on the horizon. Numbers of cruise ship passengers are gradually showing signs of increasing. Even so, theres still a long way to go.
In days gone by, Jules Vernes literary heroes managed to travel around the globe in 80 days. To celebrate the end of the pandemic (hopefully, at least) in 2023, the cruise line Royal Caribbean intends to break the record in a different way, offering a 9-month around-theworld luxury cruise. Finland will be one of the countries along the itinerary.
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The increasingly strong, effective and productive collaboration between Italian Trade Agency and IMM-CarraraFiere will bring to Seatec-Compotec 100 international buyers from 25 countries and a delegation of foreign journalists from 6 countries. The panel of conferences will be focused on technologies for reducing emissions for a better environment, on tourism port systems and Cyber Security and on the situation of refitting in the Mediterranean area.
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