In Florida, Crowley announced they have taken delivery of the LNG bunker barge Progress, the largest U.S. Jones Act-compliant vessel of its kind, built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The Progress will enhance access to cleaner energy for ship operators at the Port of Savannah, Georgia, upon its final commissioning this month. […]
In Florida, GA Telesis Engine Services adopts use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) provided by Neste. This strategic initiative to choose SAF underscores GATES’s long-term dedication to reducing its carbon footprint and promoting more sustainable aviation practices. In collaboration with DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, and highlighting DHL’s role as GATES launch customer for […]
In Florida, Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest cruise company, has finalized an agreement with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to construct three new liquified natural gas (LNG)-powered ships for Carnival Cruise Line. Scheduled for delivery in 2029, 2031, and 2033, these vessels will mark a new class of ships, boosting Carnival’s LNG-powered fleet to 16 […]
In Florida, CREO Group, a specialist in sustainable packaging solutions, announced the introduction of Asili and AgaveGrow, two new bio-based products. The firm stated that Asili contains more than 70% biobased material without compromising performance, strength, or flexibility. “Fully colorable and printable, these thermoformed containers resist mold and discoloration, and break down naturally over time. […]
In Florida, KLFY Lafayette reports Delta Biofuels has nearly completed its $100 million sugarcane bagasse-based pellet plant in Iberia Parish. The facility will produce 340,000 metric tons of pellets annually from leftover bagasse from the state’s sugarcane mills. Pellet production should kick off this fall while energy production is set to start in the next […]
In Florida, the Associated Press reports that some citrus producers have turned to pongamia trees as a replacement for their previous trees that were killed by greening and citrus canker. In hopes that pongamia will be more climate resilient than citrus, Terviva buys the beans from the tree that are too bitter for even wild […]
In Florida, the National Marine Manufacturers Association, alongside partners Suzuki Marine, Hyperfuels and LyondellBasell, held an event to launch the first-ever pilot program for sustainable marine fuels at St. Andrews Marina in Panama City, FL, on the heels of new research investigating the porfolio of technologies to further reduce the 0.1% of global carbon emissions […]
In Florida, M2X Energy Inc., an end-to-end developer of modular, transportable gas-to-liquids systems that economically produce low-carbon methanol from stranded methane, announced a $40 million Series B financing round led by Conifer Infrastructure Partners. Also participating in the round are the existing Series A investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures (“BEV”), Eni Next, Add Ventures by […]
In Florida, as a hybrid of Saccharum officinarum and Saccharum spontaneum, sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. This complexity means that improving sugarcane through conventional breeding is challenging. Because of this, researchers turn to gene editing tools, such as the CRISPR/Cas9 system to precisely target the sugarcane genome for improvement. In their […]
In Florida, Blue Biofuels, Inc announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance in Canada for the primary patent on its CTS process, #3,121,695 “System to Convert Cellulosic Materials into Sugar and Method of Using the Same.” The Company previously received the primary patent in the United States, Japan, and El Salvador, and we […]
