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20 February 2020

Focusing on lighter, more efficient and safer hulls

An optimized hull design can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 percent. But how is it best done? In a research project, Jonny Nisbet and ...

18 February 2020

LNG - no permanent solution, but important transition fuel

The climate benefit of converting shipping to natural gas is non-existent, a report and following...

13 February 2020

Oil kills more

Oil is not only a major climate threat - it also kills more people than renewable fuels, natural ...

07 February 2020

Pre-study on ammonia completed – continues as a research project

Ammonia has recently emerged as perhaps the hottest candidate to become the marine fuel of the fu...

04 February 2020

Will promote Swedish interests in the EU

Last autumn, Lighthouse and the Swedish Transport Administration formed a reference group to prom...

24 January 2020

Green shipping reduces freight costs

Investments in sustainable technologies would not only reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of shi...

21 January 2020

No biofuel breakthrough yet

Tankers on biofuels? If shipowners and cargo owners collaborate, share costs and choose the right...

17 January 2020

Unexpectedly high price tag on emissions

Shipping’s emissons of toxic substances and it’s contributions to eutrophication in the Baltic Se...

15 January 2020

Unnecessary emissions

If all goods transported by road through Skåne are transported on water instead, between 4 and 11...

08 January 2020

One fatal accident last year

One person was killed as a result of an accident in the Swedish shipping industry last year. A to...

08 January 2020

Smarter ships require new rules

Fewer accidents, greater efficiency and less environmental impact. The potential of smart ships i...

16 December 2019

Young Swedish sailors die more often than others in cardiovascular disease

Men under the age of 46 who work on deck or engine departments are at increased risk of dying of ...

13 December 2019

He got his career kickstarted

Three companies, three different organizational cultures and three weeks in China. The Lighthouse...

11 December 2019

The climate is prioritized

Shipping is usually a mode of transport with little environmental impact. But not always. Therefo...

09 December 2019

Politics must act

For a long time there has been a political will to move freight transport to shipping. But accord...

27 November 2019

There are two sides of shipping

Two images. One of shipping companies that are at the forefront and are investing in environmenta...

18 November 2019

LASH FIRE will reduce the number of fires

37 serious fires in 15 years. No wonder the EU spends over € 12 million on improving fire safety ...

11 November 2019

The "fine" economists ignore the climate

Economists are failing human civilisation! History will judge our slant hard! The accusation come...

01 November 2019

Looking for the ultimate effect

It is difficult to understand how propellers, hulls and rudders to work optimally together in cal...

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