Specific project goals to achieve this include improving the efficiency of the ship machinery, introducing alternative marine fuels, using wind energy as a complementary propulsion force and developing applicable technology for reducing the emissions of CO2, NOx , SOx and Particulate Matter. The project will result in solutions with respect to maritime fuels, energy efficiency and emission reduction technology that will contribute to the fulfillment of EU’s and the Swedish Government’s climate goals of 20% more efficient energy usage, 40% reduction of green house gas emissions, a minimum of 10% renewable energy in the transport sector in year 2020 and to fulfill and exceed upcoming international rules. In the project, there will be full scale tests of some of the developed technologies as well as a complete ship design including functional design of the best technologies. A state of the art ship design has been made available to the project to act as the platform for further development. The project results will be disseminated and exploited through the eight partners of the project consortium consisting of research organizations, ship design companies, suppliers of power and emission reduction solutions and heating systems.

The project is managed by SSPA together with ScandiNAOS AB. The project started December 1st 2009 and will be running until March 2013. A funding of 12 million SEK (about 1.2 million EUR) was obtained from VINNOVA (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) and further 8 million SEK in partner support. See the project web site www.effship.com for more details.