UK govt forms unit focused on green shipping technologies

The UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) looks to spur research into clean maritime technologies such as hydrogen, electric and ammonia with government funding worth £206 million ($270 million).

PHOTO: A container terminal in the Port of Liverpool, with a container ship berthed. New Brighton lighthouse appears on the left. Getty Images

“UK SHORE is the biggest, greenest maritime R&D investment this country has seen in generations,” UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps boasts.

UK SHORE, nested under the UK’s Department for Shipping, is part of the government’s larger £4 billion ($5.2 billion) National Shipbuilding Strategy to revitalise the UK’s shipbuilding industry.

Over 150 new naval and civil vessels could be delivered under the strategy over the next 30 years, the UK government says.