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To support Singapore\u2019s harbour craft industry\u2019s transition towards a low-carbon future, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) have launched a joint call for proposals on the electrification of harbour craft.<\/strong><\/p>\n A total of S$9 million from the Maritime GreenFuture Fund will be set aside to co-fund such harbour craft projects. <\/p>\n As explained, proposals should seek to develop commercially-ready fully electric harbour craft and\/or interoperable shore charging infrastructure for electric harbour craft and other electric vessels operating in the Port of Singapore. Proposals with a viable business model for scalability will be more favourably considered, according to MPA.<\/p>\n Proposals are expected to be put up by consortiums comprising industry players and institutes of higher learning\/research institutes. <\/p>\n \u201cSingapore is committed to invest in maritime decarbonisation technologies. Through this call, we want to spur collaborative efforts to generate innovative ideas and facilitate cross-sharing of domain expertise in vessel electrification between industry and academia,”<\/em> Kenneth Lim<\/strong>, MPA\u2019s Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director, Innovation, Technology and Talent Development, said.<\/p>\n “We look forward to co-creating solutions with our industry partners and institutes of higher learning to make our port more sustainable.”<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGreen supply chain is the future of shipping and for Singapore to maintain its hub status, innovation must enable the transformation of the shipping industry through co-creation,”<\/em> Sanjay C. Kuttan<\/strong>, SMI\u2019s Executive Director, commented. <\/p>\n “To accelerate our decarbonisation efforts of the local harbour craft industry, we invite industry innovators to lead a consortium with our local researchers to deliver impact in our fight against climate change.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The deadline for submission of whitepapers is 31 October 2020. <\/p>\n The post MPA, SMI launch call for proposals to decarbonise harbour craft industry<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To support Singapore\u2019s harbour craft industry\u2019s transition towards a low-carbon future, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) have launched a joint call for proposals on the electrification of harbour craft. A total of S$9 million from the Maritime GreenFuture Fund will be set aside to co-fund such …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3074,7293,6323,314,1277,3297,3914,9539,11578],"class_list":["post-18133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-call","tag-craft","tag-decarbonise","tag-harbour","tag-industry","tag-launch","tag-mpa","tag-proposals","tag-smi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}