Croatia-based company building hydrogen-powered ship with partners

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ZAGREB, 7 Feb (Hina) – The Croatia-based company Lürssen Design Center Kvarner from Rijeka, together with 14 other partners from Austria, Greece, Croatia, Norway, Germany, Slovenia and Spain, will, in the next four years, design and build a hydrogen-powered passenger ship that will sail the Adriatic Sea, the company announced on Monday.

The total value of the project is €18.9 million, of which €13.5 million will be co-financed by the European Union from the “Horizon Europe” program.

The main goal of the ZEAS (Zero-Emission Adriatic Ship) project is to build a hydrogen-powered passenger ship that will demonstrate a sustainable climate-neutral fuel system.

Through the project, according to a press release states, a hydrogen filling station will be implemented on the shore and a digital twin system will be developed for the management, control and monitoring of the ship’s propulsion system, which will facilitate the use and maintenance of this technologically complex vessel.

Rijeka company Lьrssen Design Center Kvarner (Press)

In addition to Lürssen Design Center Kvarner, which is the coordinator of the ZEAS project, partners from Croatia are Jadrolinija, University of Rijeka – Maritime Faculty, Gitone Kvarner, Maritime Center of Excellence, Scan Projekt and the Croatian Hydrogen Association, from Greece DNV Hellas Single Member, from Austria HyCenta Research, from Spain Tecno Ambiente, from Germany Technische Universität Chemnitz, from Slovenia ZenLab, from Norway TECO 2030 ASA, while TECO 2030 AS and TECO 2030 Innovation Center from Norway are associated partners.