article thumbnail

‘It’s a net zero cargo solution’: could Victoria become home to an airship renaissance?

The Guardian Manufacturing

French startup Flying Whales has a vision to begin manufacturing its airships – which instead of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg, will rely on 180,000 cubic metres of helium – by 2025, with an eye to gaining regulatory certification to begin operating in skies by the end of 2027.

Cargo 72
article thumbnail

Burgeoning Freight and Logistics Demands to Fuel Recovery of China’s Commercial Truck Industry

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

The Chinese government has declared its intention of having more 40% of operating commercial trucks meet electric and China VI emission standards by 2025. Road transport is central to China’s freight and logistics services.

Freight 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Catalina Aircraft to build new versions of famous WWII seaplane

E&T

It served as a far-flying maritime patrol plane, long-range torpedo and land attack bomber, mine layer, submarine hunter, search-and-rescue plane, special operations transport and cargo-hauler. The commercial variant of Catalina is said to be able to carry up to 34 passengers or 12,000lbs of cargo, with a 32,000lbs maximum take-off weight.

Cargo 98
article thumbnail

Hydrogen, EVs may both be winners in new energy future

Plastics News

Because of weight differences, a fuel-cell truck on a 350-mile run can carry about 38,000 pounds of cargo compared with 33,000 pounds for a battery electric truck, according to Michael Roeth, executive director of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. It foresees fuel cell uses in trucks, trains and maritime vessels.

Cargo 52
article thumbnail

Nature-inspired tech to move transport towards net-zero

E&T

million in 2025 and 31.1 Over the years, the team has worked with haulage companies, offshore operators, logistics specialists and port authorities to create software systems that help to plan and manage complex freight logistic networks. Deloitte forecasts their numbers will grow from 2.5 million in 2020 to 11.2 million by 2030.

article thumbnail

Make it British: Supporting Sovereign UK Supply Chain for Connected and Automated Mobility

i4.0 today

On 1 February 2023, the Government announced the winners of its deployments competition, where seven successful projects from around the UK form the most advanced set of commercial, self-driving passenger and freight operations anywhere in the world. cargo dolly. With a total funding of £28.5

article thumbnail

Coca-Cola in Mannheim: new returnable glass line from KHS optimizes highly complex sorting processes?

Dinesh Mishra

This includes investing in an energy- and resource-saving machine park and fully converting the company’s 2,300 service and commercial vehicles to electric drives by 2025. In 2021 a freight network was set up with DB Cargo that links 13 sites with one another, allowing 1.7