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#Porthos | Development

#Port of Rotterdam | 20-kilometer-long offshore pipeline for Porthos CO2 transport and storage project completed | Pipeline will transport captured CO2 from Rotterdam port industry to storage reservoirs under North Sea | Compressor station on Maasvlakte to platform P18-a above depleted gas fields | CO2 stored permanently and safely, more than three kilometers below seabed | Pipes welded together on ship and lowered to seabed | Once pipeline completely laid, it was sunk in trenches along entire route and covered with layer of sand for extra stability and protection

#Shell | Integrated Hydrogen Hubs Development

#Gasunie | Hydrogen Transportation Infrastructure

#Maasvlakte Pernis Pipeline | HyTransPort

#AmpHytrite Project Phase 1 | Feasibility study into offshore offgrid production of green hydrogen

#AmpHytrite Project Phase 2 | Developing and building a production unit that will be placed near the Sif factory on the Maasvlakte

#AmpHytrite Project Phase 3 | Scaling up the concept in order to apply it on a full scale in a wind farm at sea

#The Port of Rotterdam Authority accelerating the reduction of its own carbon emissions | Reducing Patrol Vessels CO2 Emissions

#Hydrogen Economy Northwest Europe

#HyTransPortRTM | National Transport | Inter National Transport

#GoodFuels | Cruise ship successfully refuelled with biofuels in the port of Rotterdam | Bio bunkering | Carnival Corporation | AIDAprima

#Thyssen Krupp | Crude steel producer

#Chlorine Engineers | Engineering and manufacturing of electrolysis devices

#Profuction of Green Hydrogen | Sif factory on the Maasvlakte | Hydrogen produced from Wind Power | Pondera | KCI | GE Renewable Energy

#HydrogenHub | Driving investment in hydrogen and fuel cell technology in UK

#FRIEM | Green Hydrogen Production

#Port Automation | Supply chain automation | Software assisted cranes | Autonomous vehicles | Digital checkpoints | Metrics: average minutes to unload a container, hours a ship spends in port to complete delivery of its cargo | Container Port Performance Index | Fully automated cargo handling equipment | Automated terminals | Automated cranes | More than 300 seaports in USA contributed $5.4 trillion to the economy before the pandemic | Los Angeles and Long Beach, California Ports | American Association of Port Authorities | Blomberg Business News

#Hollandse Kust Noord | Wind Farm

#Reusable Construction Materials

#Rotterdam North Rhine Westphalia Hydrogen Pipeline

#TradeLanes to Import for Hydrogen

#World Hydrogen Summit

#Sustainable Energy Council

#Uniper | Developing green hydrogen at the Uniper location on Maasvlakte

#Rijnmond Hydrogen Value Chain

#Delta Corridor Pipeline

#Moerdijk Chemical Cluster

#Geleen Chemical Cluster

#North Rhine Westphalia Chemical Cluster

#South Australia Hydrogen | Hydrogen export to Port of Rotterdam

#ClassNK | Carrier Production Liquification Hydrogen

#Switching port vessels to biofuel | Port Of Rotterdam Authority

#New port vessels to be emission free | Port Of Rotterdam Authority

#Reducing employees air travel | Port Of Rotterdam Authority

#Participating in a biokerosene programme | Port Of Rotterdam Authority

#Bunkering clean fuels | Port Of Rotterdam Authority

#Optimising logistics processes | Port Of Rotterdam Authority

#Plans for highly automated port | Strategy for easing global supply chain congestion | Container lines reeling in record profits

#Sennebogen | 300 tonne material handler | Reaching up to 38 m | Taking into account the growing ship sizes

#Transporting green hydrogen from Portugal to the Netherlands | Shell New Energies NL BV | ENGIE | Vopak | Anthony Veder | Sines port

#JAKA Robotics | Graphic Programming | Set and adjust positions and tasks with ease | Drag Teaching | Moving the cobot to any position, and it will memorize it instantly | JAKA APP | Teaching the robot | Remote Monitoring | Monitor robot tasks and set alerts

#FedEx | FedEx Mobile | Track | Ship

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Monitoring port activity to gain intelligence in the type of vessels that are coming and going

#Robotics Engineering | Intelligent Sensing for Object Recognition, Manipulation and Control | Design, Development and Simulation Tools for Robotics Development | Developing Intelligent Robots - Machine Learning on Edge, Cloud and Hybrid Architectures | Advanced Motion Control Solutions for Robotics Systems | Intelligent Vision and Sensing Solutions for Autonomous Mapping and Navigation | Motion Control for Healthcare Robotics Applications: Functional Requirements, Critical Capabilities

#Gaptek | Modular hangar construction | Lightweight system | Turnkey facilities | Fast deployment | Low environmental impact | Capability to be easily adapted and relocated

#Neste | Refinery expansion investment of 1.9€ billion | Renewable product capacity to 2.7 million tons annually | Sustainable Aviation Fuel production (SAS) capability to 1.2 million tons | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change

#Methanol bunkering | Port of Rotterdam

#H2Sines | Supply chain for liquified hydrogen (LH2) | ENGIE | Shell | Airbus | Daimler

#UPM | BioVerno | Wood based advanced biofuels

#WISA Plywood | LNG shipbuilding

#Ouster (NYSE: OUST) | Lidar sensors | Automating and retrofitting container terminals and crane systems at ports with 3D digital lidar sensors | Loading and unloading container ships | Smart port market $2 billion 2023, $11 billion by 20302 | Over 800 container terminals worldwide

#Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) | Matarbari Port Development Project | Bay of Bengal | Matarbari coal based power plant | Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica)

#Hyster | Top pick container handler powered by hydrogen fuel cells (HFC) | Piloted at the Fenix Marine Services terminal at the Port of Los Angeles | Powered by two Nuvera 45 kW hydrogen fuel cells, working in tandem with an onboard lithium ion battery to either power the equipment directly or charge the onboard battery | Refuelling with hydrogen 15 minutes | Designed to provide 8 to 10 hours of continuous run time | Producing no harmful emissions | Recovers and stores energy from lowering loads and braking | Big Trucks, Hyster Company | HFC top pick project is part of California Climate Investments | World Hydrogen 2023 Summit & Exhibition in the Rotterdam Ahoy, Netherlands

#Neom Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) | Neom City | $8.4 billion | Green hydrogen production facility | Oxagon logistics hub, Oxagon, floating structure | Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman | Northwest Saudi Arabia | Oxagon fully automated port, and integrated logistics hub | Taking advantage of shipping traveling through the Suez Canal | Oxagon to be fully automated port and integrated logistics hub that takes advantage of shipping traveling through the Suez Canal

#ALJ Group | Decarbonizing Shipping Forum in Rotterdam

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#Otto Group | Boston Dynamics Spot robot |Autonomously roaming its facilities | Patrolling | Setting paths to support tunnel inspections | Predictive maintenance activities for operations equipment, including thermal monitoring, analog gauge reading, and acoustic detection of pressurized air and gas leaks | Collecting data for machine learning models to support tasks like fire exit egress monitoring | Detecting slight changes in storage racks to improve safety in Otto Group warehouses

#RAMLAB | Additive manufacturing

#Ampelmann | Motion compensated gangways

#Damen Shipyards | Fully electric intercity waterbuses

#ZES | Leasing exchangeable batteries to inland container vessels

#KOTUG | Autonomous operations

#OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67

#IDS | Industrial image processing | 3D cameras | Digital twins can distinguish color | Higher reproducible Z-accuracy | Stereo cameras: 240 mm, 455 mm | RGB sensor | Distinguishing colored objects | Improved pattern contrast on objects at long distances | Z accuracy: 0.1 mm at 1 m object distance | SDK | AI based image processing web service | AI based image analysis

#Canon | Micro stepping motors ranging from Φ 5 mm to 6 mm | DC micro motors with gears, pinions, encoders, and lead wires already attached | Brushless servomotors | Ultra sonic piezo motor | Frameless motors | Optoelectronic Components | 3D Machine Vision System

#Bishop-Wisecarver | 8th Axis vertical extendibility solutions for to increase reach for small robots and cobots | Vertical movement with travel lengths up to 4 meters | Expanding working envelope for large-scale tasks like painting, sandblasting, and pressure washing | Single robot in place of several larger robots | Actuated linear guide system | Rotary motion guides | Rotary actuators | Customized rotary motion solutions to follow virtually any path | DualVee Motion Technology | DualVee-Single-Edge-Track | DualVee-Journals | Guide wheel components | Linear guide wheel | Track lubricator assemblies | HepcoMotion aluminum profile sections | HDRT track systems combine ring segments and straight slides to follow virtually any path | HepcoMotion PRT2 (Precision Ring and Track), DTS (Driven Track System), and HDRT (Heavy Duty Ring and Track) product lines | HDS2 Heavy Duty Slide System | Precision linear guide components utilizing guide wheel and roller wheel technology

#Wilhelmsen | Smart Rope | Measuring unit embedded within Timm Master rope | Making mooring operations safer and more efficient | Improving longevity for ropes | Unit transmits key tension, time and temperature information via wireless communication to command module on bridge | New mooring lines can be ordered and delivered when needed, not based on arbitrary schedules | Bridge sees tension in each of their mooring lines via app | Reduced life span if mooring ropes are used to manoeuvre out of port | Lack of insight into rope usage leads to inefficient replenishment | Visual inspections are not sufficient to determine if ropes are deteriorating faster than expected

#NavVis | Reality capture technology | Tools for creating photorealistic digital twins of physical environments | Enhancing productivity in surveying and construction | Enablinging faster and more accurate spatial data collection and analysis | Allinq Digital used NavVis VLX and automatic modeling tools to decrease Schiphol airport to scan for BIM | BOND Construction scanning and modeling facilities across Massachusetts, USA, including airports, cruise terminals, warehouses | Four people scanned terminal in five working days | Point cloud cleaned and registered in under three days | Modelers work remotely through NavVis IVION | Hiding walls and ceilings toggles off visual clutter so you can focus on equipment, layouts, and assets | Point cloud cleanup | Georeferenced model alignment: NavVis IVION recognizes coordinate systems in IFC files and positions models automatically | TopoDOT integration: convert NavVis panoramas to IPRJ files

#Rijkswaterstaat | Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management | Harbour Master of Rotterdam | Planning to develop a warning system based on lidar (3-D radar) | Inland vessels collide with Willemsbrug | Collisions receive a great deal of public attention occurring in densely populated urban area | Collisions involving bridges involve a certain level of risk | Royal Dutch Inland Shipping Association | Platform Zero Incidents | Rotterdam-Rijnmond Safety Region | Dutch Ministry of Defence | Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) | FERM Foundation

#Saronic | Port Alpha | Shipyard designed to build autonomous ships for hybrid fleet | Investors: General Catalyst, a16z, Caffeinated Capital, 8VC | Delivering new classes of unmanned ships | U.S. Navydeclared need for hybrid fleet which integrates significant number of unmanned systems operating alongside manned platforms

#MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity development for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Orca AI | FleetView for fleet operators and management | SeaPod | Artificial intelligence-based maritime navigation assistant, watchkeeper | Automated object detection and prioritization | All marine object detection | Curbing marine mammal strikes | Reducing whale mortality rates

#OLogic | Robotics | Pumpkin Pi i350 EVK | Edge AI platform | Designed for mainstream AI + IoT applications | Vision and voice edge processing | Facial, object, gesture, motion recognition | LPR, voice activation and speed recognition | Sound isolation, bio-tech and biometric measurements

#Ningbo Zhoushan Port | Coastline stretching across 220 kilometers | 19 port areas | Owns more than 200 large deepwater berths for vessels over 10,000 dwt | More than 115 large and super-large deepwater berths for vessels over 50,000 dwt | Connecting to the busiest trade routes in Pacific ocean | China most vigorous Yangtze River Delta economic region as its hinterland |Ningbo Zhoushan Port is the ideal distribution center for cargos to and from Mainland China | Connections to more than 600 ports in 190 countries and regions, with nearly 250 trade routes, among which 120 ocean-going lines | Container throughput reached 27.535 million TEUs, the 3rd place in the world | Cargo throughput reached 1.12 billion tons, ranking 1st worldwide for 11 consecutive years

#Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) | Promoting interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description) | Providing written specification for OpenUSD core functionality | Coordinated development of new OpenUSD functionality | Providing repository to house reference implementations | Technology, platform, and ecosystem built to empower 3D creativity and visualization at cinematic scales | Framework and ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaboratively navigating and constructing 3D scenes | Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is being embraced by industries beyond the film industry, including architecture, engineering, construction, automotive, and manufacturing

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters

#Edge Navigation | Contracting commercial ships with non-fossil zero emission propulsion | Offering to substitute conventional ships to enable switch to renewable energy for logistic operators, shippers | Developed cryogenic LH2 fuel tanks | MOU signed with MAN Energy Solutions (Cryo) for LH2 cargo containment system | MOU for transport of liquid hydrogen | MOU signed with HMM Ocean Services for Zero-Emission Hydrogen-Powered Cargo Ships

#HMM Ocean Service | 70 container vessels | 23 tankers | 2 LNGC carriers | 1 LPG carrier | 14 bulk carriers | 4 MPV carriers

#Hydrogen Chemistry Company (HyCC) | Realizes and operates large-scale facilities for green hydrogen roduction | Sustainable methanol, ammonia or pure hydrogen to make shipping more sustainable | HyCC is developing a large-scale electrolyzer in Rotterdam, named H2Next

#Metafuels | Aerobrew | Technology to convert green methanol to SAF

#GAM | Precision mechanical manufacturer of drive solutions used in automation technology | Engineering solutions for demanding environments | Robotic gearboxes | Servo-gearboxes | Precision spiral bevel gearboxes | Rack and pinion | Servo-couplings | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots | Backlash <0.1 arcmin (6 arcsec) of gearbox, no adjustment necessary | Operation temperatures -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 160°F) | 20,000 hours operational life | Torque 3500 Nm (31,000 in-lb)

#Sevensense | Robot autonomy system combining the benefits of Visual SLAM positioning with advanced AI local perception and navigation tech | Visual Al technology | AI-based autonomy solutions | Visual SLAM | Dynamic obstacle avoidance | Constructing accurate 3D maps of the environment using sensors built into robots | Algorithms precisely localize robot by matching what it observes at any given time with 3D map | Using AI driven perception system robot learns what is around it and predicts people actions to react accordingly | Intelligent path planning makes robot move around static and dynamic obstacles to avoid unnecessary stops | Collaborating with each others robots share important information like their position and changes in mapped environment | Running indoors, outdoors, over ramps and on multiple levels without auxiliary systems | Repeatability of 4mm guarantees precise docking | Updates the map and shares it with the entire fleet | Edge AI: All intelligence is on the vehicle, eliminating any issue related to the loss of connectivity | VDA 5050 standardized interface for AGV communication | Alphasense Autonomy Evaluation Kit | Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) | Hybrid fleets: manual and autonomous systems work collaboratively | Equipping both autonomous and manually operated vehicles with advanced Visual SLAM and AI-powered perception | Workers and AMRs share the same map of the warehouse, with live position data of each of the vehicles | Turning every movement in warehouse into shared spatial awareness that serves operators, machines, and managers alike | Equiping AGVs and other types of wheeled vehicles with multi-camera, industrial-grade Visual SLAM, providing accurate 3D positioning | Combining Visual SLAM with AI-driven 3D perception and navigation | Extending visibility to manually operated vehicles, such as forklifts, tuggers, and other types of industrial trucks | Unifying spatial awareness across fleets | Unlocking operational visibility | Ensuring every movement generates usable data | Providing foundation for smarter, data-driven decision-making | Merging manual and autonomous workflows into a single connected ecosystem | Real-time vehicle tracking | Traffic heatmaps | Spaghetti diagrams | Predictive flow analytics | Redesigning layouts | Optimizing pick paths | Streamlining material handling | Accurate vehicle tracking | Safe-speed enforcement | Pedestrian proximity alerts | Lowerung insurance claims | Ensuring regulatory compliance | Making equipment smarter, scalable, interoperable, and differentiable | Predictive maintenance | Fleet optimization | Visual AI Ecosystem connecting machines, people, processes, and data | Autonomous robotic floor cleaning | Industry 5.0 by adding people-centric approach | Visual AI to providing real-time, people-centric decision-making capabilities as part of autonomous navigation solutions | Collaborative Navigation transforming Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) into mobile cobots | Visual AI confering robots the ability to understand the context of the environment, distinguishing between unobstructed and obstructed paths, categorizing the types of obstacles they encounter, and adapting their behavior dynamically in real-time | Automatically generating complete and very accurate 3D digital twin of an elevator shaft | Autonomous eTrolleys tackling last-mile problem |Autonomous product delivery at airports

#Export-Import Bank of the United States | The official export credit agency of the United States | Supporting American job creation, prosperity and security through exporting | Issuing letters of interest for over $2.2 billion in financing for critical mineral projects | Supply Chain Resiliency Initiative (SCRI) to help secure supply chains of critical minerals and rare earth elements for U.S. businesses | Maintaining access to critical materials to secure U.S. jobs in sectors like battery, automobile, and semiconductor manufacturing | SCRI provides financing for international projects with signed long-term off-take contracts with U.S. companies, providing these U.S. companies with access to critical minerals from partner countries | SCRI: EXIM financing is tied to import authority and the financed amount depends on the amount of the off-take contract between the foreign project and the U.S. importer | Off-take agreements ensure that EXIM financing for critical minerals projects benefits American companies and workers | For U.S. domestic production in critical minerals and rare earth elements, EXIM can provide financing through Make More in America Initiative (MMIA) | SCRI: project must have signed off-take contracts that will result in the critical minerals and rare earth elements output being utilized in the United States, for products that are manufactured in the United States

#Sverdrup Steel | Stainless steel for marine industry due to its durability, corrosion resistance, and high tolerance to stress | Boat construction | Offshore oil platforms | Structural integrity, high tensile strength of stainless steel makes it indispensable for marine industry, particularly in crafting hulls, superstructures, and vital components of ships |.100% recyclability

#NVIDIA | GPU Deep Learning | GPU acting as the brain of computing | Robots and self driving cars can perceive and unferstand the world | Accelerating the entire AI workflow | AI agents designed to reason, plan, and act | Conversational AI: multilingual speech and translation AI | Vision AI: multimodal real-time insights | AI factories: manufacturing intelligence at scale | Purpose-built AI factories | AI life-cycle | Humanoid robotics research and development platform | Machine Learning | Neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentation | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning

#Open Ocean Robotics | Redefining port operations with real-time, autonomous data collection from water surface | Solar-powered, uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) provide port authorities, terminal operators, and environmental managers with continuous maritime intelligence | Low-cost, high-impact solution to improve visibility above and below surface without emissions, noise, or operational disruption | High-resolution seabed and structure mapping supporting terminal operations | Monitoring underwater noise and marine life in real time, helping ports reduce environmental impact and meet regulatory standards | Enhancing situational awareness with real-time vessel detection and tracking, supporting traffic management and compliance efforts | Providing agile, low-impact monitoring in hard-to-reach areas, helping ports protect subsea assets and reduce maintenance costs

#Port of Long Beach | The premier U.S. gateway for trans-Pacific trade | Port handles trade valued at $300 billion annually | Jobs supported: > 2.7 million across nation, > 1.14 million in California, > 543,000 in Los Angeles and Orange counties | Serving 175 shipping lines with connections to 217 seaports around the world | Port handled more than 9.6 million container units