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The green revolution of waterborne transport
Waterborne transport must become sustainable. The EU-funded FASTWATER project aims to reduce its greenhouse and pollutant emissions by using methanol fuel. Methanol is a clean fuel, available in large quantities in most ports, and can easily be stored on board. FASTWATER elaborates an evolutionary pathway for methanol, including retrofit solutions. The project will develop retrofit kits and methanol engines and demonstrate these in a harbour tugboat, a pilot boat and a coast guard vessel. A methanol powered river cruise vessel design is also included, as well as logistics and bunkering, revision of rules and regulations, and crew training. Eventually, FASTWATER will implement business plans including the life cycle performance analysis of costs, CO2 and pollutant reductions, to commercialise the developed solutions.
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22100 Lund
Sweden
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28203 Bremen
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9000 Gent
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79677 Schonau Im Schwarzwald
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2030 Antwerpen
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9000 Gent
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414 51 Goteborg
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400 22 Goteborg
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26871 Papenburg
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EC3M 4BS London
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157 80 Athina
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194 00 Koropi
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1410 Waterloo
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60178 Norrköping
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