{"id":21579,"date":"2020-11-17T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/grieg-star-creates-innovation-spin-off-with-sustainability-in-mind\/21579\/"},"modified":"2020-11-17T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:31:10","slug":"grieg-star-creates-innovation-spin-off-with-sustainability-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/grieg-star-creates-innovation-spin-off-with-sustainability-in-mind\/21579\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieg Star creates innovation spin-off with sustainability in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwegian shipowner Grieg Star has set up a separate company, named Grieg Edge, to drive innovations within sustainable maritime services.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As informed, the new subsidiary has already taken over the practical follow up of Grieg Star\u2019s participation in the Zero Emission Energy Distribution at Sea (ZEEDS) initiative that envisions making zero-emission fuels available to the shipping industry. <\/p>\n<p>What is more, the company has started developing several new projects, aiming to identify and develop new business opportunities within shipping and related maritime segments \u2013 with\u00a0sustainability\u00a0as a requirement.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShipping has prided itself on being the most environmentally friendly way of transporting cargo. It is time to take it further. Industry disruption, climate change and shifts in customer behaviour demand a new approach,&#8221; <\/em><strong>Matt Duke<\/strong>, Grieg Star Group CEO, pointed out. <\/p>\n<p> <em>&#8220;For our deep-sea investments, we have a &#8230; platform for innovation with\u00a0G2 Ocean, and together with our partner\u00a0Gearbulk\u00a0we will strive to develop the Open Hatch trade further.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"block block-related-article\">\n<div class=\"card-rich \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/grieg-star-g2-ocean-join-norwegian-autonomous-ship-project\/\" class=\"card__lazyload card-rich__image\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/17131842\/48071187697_0cd7f3702b_c.jpg')\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-rich__element card-rich__time-ago\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Posted:<\/span> 5 months ago\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-rich__content\">\n<div class=\"card-rich__partner-label\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"card-rich__title\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/grieg-star-g2-ocean-join-norwegian-autonomous-ship-project\/\" class=\"card-rich__link\" aria-label=\"Read more about: Grieg Star, G2 Ocean take part in Norwegian autonomous ship project\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tGrieg Star, G2 Ocean take part in Norwegian autonomous ship project<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<div class=\"card-rich__element card-rich__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Categories:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"card-category-list no-list\">\n<li class=\"card-category-list__item\">Research &amp; Development<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"card__element card-rich__time-ago\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Posted:<\/span> 5 months ago\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u201cBut looking adjacent to our core business, we see a multitude of challenges that require new sustainable solutions. These solutions will both have a positive environmental effect, but also serve as a catalyst to new business models and developing our group competencies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> &#8220;This new knowledge, new business models and the ability to look beyond our main activities will be highly valuable in its own right. It will also provide a critical knowledge platform that can benefit our core ship owning and ship management divisions. We are confident that Grieg Edge will be able to solve several of the problems our industry &amp; society face today,\u201d<\/em> Duke concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Grieg Edge is <strong>Nicolai Grieg<\/strong>, former Head of Finance at Grieg Star.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn the Grieg Group, we say that we will restore our oceans. Grieg Edge as a company is dedicated to this work and with the ambition to take part in the development of new sustainable businesses and technologies. We focus on short-sea shipping, offshore wind, energy and infrastructure, and cleaning up the seas,&#8221;<\/em> Grieg explained.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/grieg-star-creates-innovation-spin-off-with-sustainability-in-mind\/\">Grieg Star creates innovation spin-off with sustainability in mind<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\">Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian shipowner Grieg Star has set up a separate company, named Grieg Edge, to drive innovations within sustainable maritime services.\u00a0 As informed, the new subsidiary has already taken over the practical follow up of Grieg Star\u2019s participation in the Zero Emission Energy Distribution at Sea (ZEEDS) initiative that envisions making zero-emission fuels available to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6343,7755,5179,10665,7817,1141,1782],"class_list":["post-21579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-creates","tag-grieg","tag-innovation","tag-mind","tag-spinoff","tag-star","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579","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=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/21580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}