A consortium working to build and showcase the ‘world’s first’ liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel and bunkering infrastructure has won a £3.8m ($4.59m) grant from the UK Government.
The £5.4m ($6.5m) project from the Hydrogen Innovation – Future Innovation & Vessel Evaluation and Demonstration (HI-FIVED) consortium headed up by ACUA Ocean and Unitrove, aims to build and showcase an autonomous vessel and bunkering infrastructure technologies for liquid hydrogen to contribute to the decarbonisation of the maritime industry.
Expected to be delivered in the autumn of 2024, Unitrove will deploy its mobile fuelling technology at the Port of Aberdeen in support of ACUA’s bid to build and operate the ‘world’s first’ maritime autonomous surface ship powered by liquid hydrogen.
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