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La LR2 tanker Monza , equipaggiata con due WindWings® da 37,5 m e motorizzazione dual-fuel LNG, è stata consegnata a Union Maritime . È la terza unità di una serie che adotta le ali rigide, un segnale del passaggio della tecnologia da installazioni isolate a soluzioni ripetibili su larga scala, mentre il quadro regolatorio internazionale resta ancora indefinito. Il profilo metallico delle due ali rigide si staglia contro il cielo di Jiangsu: non un vezzo estetico ma la traccia visibile di un cambiamento operativo. La LR2 tanker Monza è stata consegnata il 7 maggio 2026 a Union Maritime con due WindWings® da 37,5 metri sviluppate da BAR Technologies. L'installazione, realizzata durante la costruzione presso Yangzijiang Shipbuilding con strutture fornite da CMET, è la terza unità della serie newbuild dotata di ali rigide. L'adozione di WindWings su una LR2 come la Monza sposta l'attenzione dalle prove puntuali alla gestione seriale: processi ripetibili in cantiere, procedure di classificazione adottabili su più nuove costruzioni e routine operative che entrano a far parte del manuale di bordo. Il risultato è una soluzione integrata che combina propulsione LNG e assistenza eolica su grandi tonnellaggi. Dettagli tecnici della Monza La Monza è una LR2/Aframax con lunghezza fuori tutto tra 248,8 e 249 metri, baglio di 44,0 metri e portata di carico (DWT) di 113.346 tonnellate. La stazza lorda è compresa tra 64.350 e 64.431 GT; il pescaggio estivo è di 15,0 metri e la profondità di scafo raggiunge i 21,5 metri. La propulsione principale è affidata a un MAN B&W 6G60ME-C10-HPSCR a 2 tempi, con potenza di 8.910 kW e velocità di servizio dichiarata di 14 nodi. Le WindWings® sono state integrate mantenendo le caratteristiche di progetto e le procedure di classificazione previste da Lloyd's Register. La nave è registrata sotto bandiera Marshall Islands. L'accoppiamento tra motorizzazione dual-fuel LNG e ali rigide rimane centrale per la flessibilità operativa della nave: il sistema eolico è stato pensato come supporto alla propulsione principale, non come sua sostituzione. Perché installare WindWings su LR2 ora La scelta di Union Maritime trova giustificazione pratica nell'esigenza di ridurre consumi e emissioni durante le rotte commerciali senza dipendere unicamente dalla disponibilità o dai prezzi dei combustibili alternativi. Le ali rigide sfruttano energia del vento, diretta e gratuita, mentre la propulsione LNG conserva la possibilità di adottare altri vettori in futuro. Questo approccio mantiene opzioni tecniche aperte nel lungo periodo e introduce risparmi misurabili nelle operazioni quotidiane. Le prestazioni delle WindWings® sono già osservabili su precedenti installazioni commerciali e su altre unità della stessa serie: i dati di progetto e le verifiche in mare hanno guidato l'adozione su scala ripetitiva. L'integrazione su nuove costruzioni permette di ottimizzare posizioni sul ponte, rinforzi strutturali e gestione degli ingombri, riducendo l'impatto sulle routine di carico e sulle operazioni in porto rispetto a retrofit applicati a navi in servizio. Impatto operativo e industriale L'installazione delle ali rigide su una LR2 comporta scelte progettuali che toccano ponte, stabilità, accessi e sicurezza. Le WindWings® sulla Monza adottano un design a tre elementi che aumenta la portanza rispetto a soluzioni a singolo elemento e si regola automaticamente per ottimizzare il rendimento con venti variabili. Questo sistema di regolazione riduce il carico decisionale dell'equipaggio e agevola l'integrazione con i sistemi di navigazione e gestione del carburante. Dal punto di vista industriale, la serializzazione implica un livello di coordinamento esteso: progettisti, cantiere, fornitori di componenti, società di classificazione e amministrazione di bandiera lavorano con procedure comuni. Processo e documentazione standardizzati riducono tempi e costi unitari rispetto a interventi una tantum, facilitando la replica tecnica su altre nuove costruzioni con specifiche analoghe. Osservazioni economiche e normative La valutazione economica si basa su riduzioni misurabili del consumo di combustibile e sui modelli di prezzo dei carburanti alternativi. Per l'armatore, la combinazione di motorizzazione LNG e assistenza eolica conserva margini di flessibilità: il sistema WindWings contribuisce a contenere il consumo in molte tratte commerciali senza precludere l'adozione di altri vettori in futuro. La disponibilità di procedure di classificazione condivise favorisce l'adozione perché riduce l'incertezza tecnica e facilita la pianificazione della manutenzione. Sul piano normativo, la discussione internazionale su strumenti come FuelEU Maritime e gli obiettivi di efficienza IMO continua a orientare scelte e investimenti: la tecnologia è già applicabile e viene adottata mentre si definiscono regole e meccanismi di mercato. Prospettive e scala di adozione Con la terza consegna di una serie equipaggiata con WindWings®, la pratica costruttiva evolve: non si tratta più di singole sperimentazioni ma di processi replicabili, con contratti e specifiche che possono essere standardizzati. La replicabilità su grandi tonnellaggi sarà influenzata dalla convergenza di tecniche di progettazione, prassi di cantiere e procedure di classificazione; la Monza funge da esempio operativo di questa concatenazione. Restano questioni pratiche da risolvere sul piano operativo, come l'ottimizzazione delle rotte per massimizzare il beneficio e la formazione degli equipaggi alla gestione di sistemi misti. Ogni nuova consegna aggiunge esperienza e dati che servono per definire procedure, checklist di manutenzione e benchmark di performance che saranno utili sia agli armatori sia ai costruttori nella fase successiva di diffusione. La Monza mette sul tavolo dettagli concreti: specifiche di progetto, un pacchetto di installazione ripetibile e la dimostrazione che ali rigide e propulsione LNG possono coesistere in un programma di nuove costruzioni. Quel che segue sarà il consolidamento di pratiche tecniche, logistiche e formative che tradurranno i benefici attesi in routine operative standard.

Si è svolto nella sede della Regione Veneto un incontro del tavolo dedicato all’evoluzione del polo industriale petrolchimico di Porto Marghera, a Venezia. La riunione, coordinata dall’assessore regionale allo Sviluppo economico Massimo Bitonci, ha riunito i rappresentanti del gruppo ENI, delle società Versalis, Enilive ed ENI Rewind, oltre alle organizzazioni sindacali Filctem Cgil, Femca Cisl e Uiltec Uil insieme ai rappresentanti dei lavoratori. Al centro del confronto gli investimenti e le prospettive industriali dell’area veneziana, con particolare attenzione ai progetti di riconversione e sviluppo. Investimenti per 900 milioni di euro “L’incontro di oggi è stato l’occasione per fare il punto sugli investimenti posti in essere dal Gruppo ENI nell’area veneziana di Porto Marghera”, ha dichiarato Bitonci. Secondo quanto illustrato durante il tavolo, il gruppo ENI ha previsto nell’area investimenti complessivi pari a 900 milioni di euro nel periodo tra il 2022 e il 2028. L’assessore ha spiegato che il gruppo ha presentato gli interventi già realizzati e quelli in corso nella bioraffineria Enilive, definita uno stabilimento “pioniere in Italia e secondo in Europa per capacità produttiva di biofuel”. Nel corso dell’incontro sono stati richiamati anche gli investimenti nella stazione di distribuzione di idrogeno rinnovabile e quelli relativi alla chimica di Versalis, legati sia alla funzione logistica di Porto Marghera sia al riciclo meccanico delle plastiche. “Un impianto che vedrà il completamento di 4 linee produttive entro la fine del mese e poi l’avvio di un ulteriore ampliamento”, ha aggiunto Bitonci. Il tema della reindustrializzazione Durante il confronto è stato affrontato anche il tema delle aree da reindustrializzare all’interno del polo industriale veneziano. “Parliamo di una superficie particolarmente estesa e di lotti già messi a disposizione da ENI in un accordo con l’Autorità Portuale per l’insediamento di nuove attività”, ha spiegato l’assessore regionale. Nel corso della riunione le organizzazioni sindacali hanno espresso preoccupazione sul rischio che il futuro di Porto Marghera possa essere limitato a una funzione esclusivamente logistica. “Su questo tema abbiamo registrato la preoccupazione sindacale che il futuro industriale di Porto Marghera non la declassasse a una funzione di mera logistica o di “parcheggio””, ha dichiarato Bitonci. L’assessore ha precisato che la Regione Veneto punta invece ad attrarre nell’area “attività industriali ad alto valore aggiunto”, obiettivo condiviso anche con il gruppo ENI. Nuovo incontro previsto a settembre Al termine del tavolo è stato deciso di aggiornare il confronto nei prossimi mesi. Bitonci ha annunciato che ENI trasmetterà alla Regione il dettaglio dei progetti previsti nell’area e il relativo cronoprogramma aggiornato. “Riceveremo da ENI il dettaglio della progettualità del Gruppo nell’area e il cronoprogramma aggiornato, un documento che condivideremo con le Parti sindacali”, ha concluso l’assessore. Il tavolo tornerà a riunirsi nel mese di settembre per verificare l’avanzamento degli interventi e i risultati raggiunti.

Δείτε περισσότερα άρθρα μας στα αποτελέσματα αναζήτησης Hello, today’s news is focused more on the internal affairs of New Democracy (ND) and less on government activity. Yes, indeed, the ND parliamentary group meeting is interesting, but intuitively I’d say that when you expect a lot of noise, it usually doesn’t happen. Ever since Mitsotakis decided to “look squarely” at the possibility of elections in the autumn, everything will start being viewed through the prism of elections. MPs will become more cautious, and he himself is now personally dealing with them. The blue group therapyToday’s meeting of the ND Parliamentary Group is expected to last at least 3–4 hours, as more than 40 MPs have registered to speak. I’m told that Mitsotakis’ speech, as I already mentioned, will be mild and unifying, though with some pointed remarks; that is, he won’t pretend not to understand what is happening within his party, but neither will he escalate matters. He is also expected to stay to listen to all the MPs and respond where necessary. In any case, it appears there will be no extremes, although there will be sharp interventions. Certainly, the “five” MPs who sent the open letter toTa Neaa few days ago have signed up to speak, though they say their interventions will be political rather than emotional or filled with personal barbs. Still, there is a sense of self-preservation inside the party, because if things get out of hand today, ND will enter an unnecessary spiral of introversion, despite maintaining a fifteen-point lead over the second party in every poll. They’ll say it at the congressThere is also a category of ND MPs who have concerns and reservations but will not speak at the Parliamentary Group meeting. For example, Stelios Petsas is preparing a political intervention with sharp edges for the upcoming party congress. Others are in the same category; after all, I have also written that the Congress will be interesting regardless. Dendias’ absenceDendias will also be absent from another milestone event with internal party significance. Obviously, ministers have independent schedules and rarely all attend the full sessions of the Parliamentary Group, where the main “game” is usually played by those who are not ministers. Still, symbolism matters. For the record, the Defence Minister has a scheduled two-day trip to Portugal, just as he had “something else scheduled” during the vote on lifting MPs’ immunity, and “something else” during the debate on the rule of law, while he also did not attend the amendment concerning his ministry’s authority over guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Karamanlis (1)Karamanlis, through his…silence toward Dora, confirmed that he will not attend the ND congress next weekend, unlike what he did in 2024. Of course, back then he attended together with Samaras, who has now been expelled, so attending alone would seem somewhat strange. Technically, however, he has not refused yet. By the end of the week, he will receive the invitation from the chairman of the Organizing Committee and his long-time interlocutor, Theodoros Roussopoulos, which will give him every opportunity to formally decline. Karamanlis (2)As you may have noticed, I rarely deal with Karamanlis (of Rafina), because frankly there is no reason to, but it is beyond me that the politician under whose premiership the deficit reached 12% of GDP, with 270,000 public-sector hires, leading Greece to bankruptcy and the memoranda, now speaks of “clientelist mentality.” A little shame, please! OppositionMeanwhile, the opposition is reading the latest polls and is probably disappointed because it realizes that “OPEKEPE 2” and the wiretapping affair have not really worked as weapons against the government. My impression is that the losses it suffered, around 1%–2%, are due more to demobilization following the end of the “rally around the flag” effect from the Gulf war than to the scandals themselves. A highly experienced source told me that the reason the government is not rapidly deteriorating—or rather remains stable around 30% (roughly what it had before the 2023 election)—is not so much due to subsidies, but to the opposition itself. “What have we seen in recent days?” the source asks and continues: “Androulakis got rid of Kastanidis, someone whose clash with him signified nothing, and brought in Farantouris. A guy whom older people remember as a blue-party employee in the offices of Souflias, Voulgarakis, and Kefalogiannis, who later became Syriza-aligned, then aligned with Kasselakis, flirted politically with Karystianou, and finally was taken in by Androulakis. At the same time, we are reminded again of Tsipras and Syriza in 2015 and what happened to us through the SKAI documentary, while every day we hear another episode in Parliament involving Zoe. So what do you expect ordinary people who just want peace and quiet to work and produce to do—open the doors of the madhouse?” says the source, who also works with focus groups. I won’t disagree, because every poll you read ends up more or less there in the qualitative findings, especially regarding suitability for governing and for prime minister. When the second most preferred figure after Mitsotakis, who stands at 32%–33%, is Tsipras at 9%, you understand the level of despair in public opinion regarding the opposition. Pierrakakis inLe PointIt’s not the most common thing for major international media outlets to cite the remarks of a Greek politician when discussing Europe’s greatest challenge. Yet that is what happened in yesterday’sLe Pointarticle. In its detailed feature on the Savings and Investments Union, the iconic French outlet chose as its headline Kyriakos Pierrakakis’ reference to “wooden walls” at last week’s EU finance ministers’ summit. The article begins with the phrase: “At the ECOFIN meeting of May 5, Themistocles appeared invited to the battle for the Capital Markets Union,” and continues by referring to “a lesson in ancient history that gave the discussion a special color.” The article’s author particularly highlighted the Greek Finance Minister’s remark to his counterparts: “Will we remain at words, or move to actions? Do you want to build walls or build ships?” The blunder and the seriousnessYou’ve already read the news that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Greece sent MPs being investigated in the OPEKEPE case summonses for felony charges, while in reality they are facing misdemeanors. Obviously, a “corrected version” will be sent, like with press releases, but this story was widely discussed in political backstage circles yesterday. According to the political figures mentioned, it also reveals the seriousness of the local Prosecutor’s Office mechanism (Papandreou & Co.), who conducted the criminal assessment of the case. One might say that we are all human and make mistakes, but in certain cases mistakes carry significance, don’t they? Greek-Dutch rapprochement in bancassurance While National Bank is in the final stage of talks with Allianz, a new deal appears to be developing behind the scenes. CrediaBank—without hiding it—is seeking a strategic ally and is said to be in advanced talks with the NN Insurance Group. CrediaBank’s management wants to upgrade its bancassurance segment, despite already cooperating with ERGO and Interamerican. However, its revenues from those partnerships remain low. On the other hand, NN Hellas has already demonstrated the strategic importance it places on Greek bancassurance through its long-term partnership with Piraeus Bank, a collaboration that on paper was renewed for 10 years with an option for another 5. However, Piraeus chose to “marry” Ethniki Insurance, so discussions now concern only the terms of the “divorce” with NN. Sources say that mutual funds have also been placed on the negotiating table, with NN’s asset management arm upgrading its relationship with Credia from simple distribution to a substantial strategic partnership. CrediaBank, with its renewed capital structure, retail focus, and considerable ambitions, represents an attractive alternative for the angry Dutch. Vakakis insists and raises the bet in RomaniaJUMBO’s stock (-0.87% at €22.7) did not participate in yesterday’s stock-market rally, where all the “high-beta” aggressive stocks starred. Still, it is interesting that more than 1.16 million shares changed hands yesterday, a volume exceeding even that of the rebalancing day on February 27. Some sold in panic. Others bought with conviction. JUMBO’s Achilles’ heel today is the Romanian market, whose potential Apostolos Vakakis trusts, which is why he continues investing heavily there. Romania’s currency, the leu, has fallen to a historic low, requiring 5.23 lei for €1. The government lost parliament’s confidence, inflation is running at 8%, and Romanian consumers see their real income shrinking. Vakakis persists. He will create a new store in Baia Mare and a huge new 60,000-square-meter distribution center this year, which may also be used for sales outside Romania. In April alone, JUMBO sales in Romania—both physical stores and e-jumbo.ro—recorded a 15% drop compared with April 2025. Usually pessimistic, Vakakis is ignoring the warning signs and investing optimistically in the region. There is no agreementThe company “Amoiridis-Savvidis SA” informed the column regarding yesterday’s comment about an acquisition by Kotsovolos that “there is no agreement to be implemented.” Behind-the-scenes discussions on ferries and expensive fuelA few days ago, Vasilis Kikilias met with the president of the Association of Passenger Shipping Companies. The subject was the serious problems ferry companies are facing due to expensive fuel as a consequence of the war in the Middle East. The minister is actively working on the issue and exploring every institutional possibility before the government as a whole decides what measures to take to prevent increases in ticket prices. The data are as follows: during March and April, the additional monthly burden on the ferry sector due to fuel costs reached €18 million, and May is expected to remain at that level, bringing the total to €54 million. If the war continues, from June onward, when routes increase, ferry operators estimate the total monthly burden will rise to €25 million. At their first meeting at the Maximos Mansion earlier this spring, representatives of the shipping association and the government decided to subsidize the mandatory discounts, which amount annually to €56 million, though the companies will receive these funds gradually over time. For now, the law has been passed, published in the Government Gazette, and everyone is waiting for implementation. At that first meeting, both sides agreed they would proceed step by step. They said that if the war continued, a second meeting would follow in May. It has not yet been scheduled. Through the association, ferry operators are requesting fuel subsidies at the refinery level to cover the increase in costs. The subsidy is estimated to burden the state budget by around €25 million per month for as long as disruptions in navigation through Hormuz continue. The association also brought up the recent EU decision to relax state-aid rules as part of measures to help member states confront the energy crisis. Attica Beauty is comingAttica department stores, which are currently being discussed because of their upcoming stock-market listing, are promoting a new store concept focused exclusively on cosmetics and personal-care products under the brand name “Attica Beauty.” In this context, they closed the store on the first floor of the Mall and are preparing to open the first Attica Beauty on the second floor of the shopping center, occupying a 470-square-meter space. The second Attica Beauty will open at Riviera Galleria in Ellinikon. Management will monitor the performance of the first two stores before deciding whether and how to expand the concept further. This year, before the Middle East war, Attica department stores had targeted 6% growth and still consider that target achievable despite developments. Management’s key challenge is maintaining the EBITDA-to-sales ratio at 12%, one of the best performances internationally in the sector. Folias enters batteries tooChristos Folias appears hyperactive on the business front. The former minister and MP under Kostas Karamanlis’ governments started in business—with the most famous “achievement” being the founding of Goody’s fast-food chain together with his brother Achilles—and returned to entrepreneurship after retiring from politics years ago. At present he is chairman of Real Tobacco SA, CEO of Emerald Foods owned by the Yavroglou family, and, as I hear, also participates in a new corporate venture betting on many things, but mainly batteries, since energy storage is the modern market’s “holy grail.” The company Thalior S.A., established yesterday, Wednesday May 6, is headquartered on Kanari Street and has initial share capital of €25,000. The venture includes Michail Dingas as attorney, representative, and agent of the Chinese company Jade Peak Holdings Limited; Christos Folias representing “Christos Folias and Co. GP”; and Dimitrios Arvanitis as director and legal representative of Cyprus-based Malgani Ltd. As for the share capital: Jade Peak Holdings contributed €13,750 (55%), M. Dingas €4,375 (17.5%), “Folias and Partners” €5,625 (22.5%), and Malgani Ltd €1,250 (5%). In the first board of directors, M. Dingas became chairman, Chr. Folias vice chairman, and D. Arvanitis managing director. The company’s purpose includes manufacturing electric cells and accumulators, wholesale trade in machinery and equipment (including energy-storage batteries), installation of industrial machinery and equipment (including BESS systems), manufacturing motor vehicles, manufacturing electrical and electronic equipment for vehicles, and even manufacturing… airplanes and spacecraft. Big ambitions indeed. The “blessing” of debt under British lawYesterday another “anti-memorandum myth” was dismantled. The subjection of Greek debt to English law, which some considered a “treacherous” concession to creditors, ultimately proved to be the greatest protection for the Greek state. Greece won in the UK Supreme Court the case concerning the buyback of GDP-linked warrants. These were securities with nominal value exceeding €62 billion, the largest series of GDP-linked instruments ever issued by a sovereign state. British justice ruled in record time, less than a year after the lawsuit was filed. Had the case been judged by Greek courts, even a decade might not have been enough. The second lesson concerns the Public Debt Management Agency (ODDIH). Certain large institutional investors (VR Capital, Wellington Management, Pharo Management) challenged the buyback by the Greek state, claiming the acquisition price was 36% below market value. Rather than bowing to pressure and threats regarding Greece’s “reputation,” ODDIH chose to seek a declaratory judgment from British courts, which proved to be “the most effective” method of resolution, avoiding fragmented procedures and contradictory decisions. Rarely is public-debt management handled with such legal determination and professional composure. The third lesson is political: growth should not be punished. GDP warrants were designed so Greece could “share” the fruits of recovery with creditors. By repurchasing €156 million worth of securities at 25 cents on the euro, the state closed obligations extending to 2042 and avoided burdens estimated at €3 billion. The British court ruling can be appealed within three weeks. The opposing parties did not appear. But the essence of the matter has already been decided. Marinas rise, the institutional framework “sticks”Nearly two weeks have passed since the General Assembly of the Greek Marinas Association in Preveza, but the multiple messages sent in the speech by the Association’s president and Managing Director of LAMDA Marinas, Stavros Katsikadis, are still being studied, though it remains unclear what will happen. Officially, the picture is impressive: 30 member marinas, covering around 75% of organized berthing positions, 9,573 total berths, and facilities accommodating everything from small boats to 140-meter mega yachts. However, among industry insiders, the real interest lies elsewhere. Stavros Katsikadis spoke about a sector driving the Greek economy forward, generating multiplier benefits of up to €10 for every €1 spent on berthing, hundreds of jobs, and strong contributions to public revenues. Between the lines, however, references to licensing delays, bureaucratic obstacles, and the lack of a stable tax framework were interpreted as a clear jab at the institutional environment. Industry executives do not hide that fatigue from constant pending issues is beginning to affect investment decisions. Livanos’ big bet in Amsterdam that is changing the energy marketThe European energy market is entering a more practical phase. The issue is no longer only hydrogen production, but how it will be transported and delivered to the end user at a competitive cost. Within this framework comes the move by Peter Livanos’ company, Ecolog, to create a hub at the port of Amsterdam. The concept is simple in theory: import liquefied hydrogen while simultaneously exporting carbon dioxide. In practice, this is an attempt to connect two markets that until now have operated separately: clean energy and emissions management. The scale of the project—200,000 tons of green hydrogen and 1.8 million tons of CO₂ annually—is realistic by today’s standards. The problem is cost. Viability will depend on three factors: how cheaply hydrogen can be produced outside Europe, how much it costs to transport it in liquid form, and whether there is stable industrial demand. None of these factors has yet been locked in. On the technical side, transporting liquid hydrogen remains difficult. The technology exists, but it has not matured. Boil-off losses at temperatures of -253°C raise costs. Ecolog claims it has significantly improved this parameter and has received preliminary approval for a new ship design. That is a positive development, but not a definitive solution. As for distribution, the connection with the Hynetwork grid and Amsterdam’s infrastructure provides flexibility. Hydrogen can either enter the grid or be transported elsewhere. This improves the commercial profile, but actual demand remains fragile and heavily dependent on government support. The timeline for operations by 2030 is considered standard for projects of this scale, assuming permits move forward during 2026. Energy-intensive industries “took off”Shares of energy-intensive industries led yesterday’s market rise, transforming the de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East into profits. The market made a “peace leap” toward 2,300 points, while turnover surged above €440 million, reflecting the mass return of buyers. Industrial groups, which had suffered the greatest pressure due to rising energy costs and geopolitical uncertainty, staged an impressive rebound. The prospect of energy prices stabilizing at pre-war levels acted as a strong catalyst for stocks such as Metlen (fourth consecutive gain), Titan (jump of 7.65%), Viohalco (double-digit rally and new all-time high), Cenergy (also a new all-time high), and ElvalHalcor. Investors are now pricing in a significant improvement in profit margins for energy-intensive sectors, as reduced operating costs combine with sustained strong international demand for their products. Eurobank Equities and Piraeus Securities form a “duopoly” around AVAXAVAX became the focal point of buying interest in the mid-cap segment. The construction company benefited from the extremely positive market sentiment prevailing yesterday. However, the stock’s momentum was further strengthened by reports from Eurobank Equities and Piraeus Securities, both of which saw upside potential approaching 50% before publication of the reports. Following Wednesday’s 7.87% rally, AVAX reached the threshold of €3.5 and reduced the upside to approximately 38.7%. Specifically, Eurobank Equities initiated coverage of the stock with a “buy” recommendation and a target price of €4.85, emphasizing the group’s strong prospects. Analysts are focusing on the robust backlog of projects, healthy capital structure, and AVAX’s ability to play a leading role in major infrastructure and energy projects currently underway in the country. The market appears to be adopting the analysts’ perspective, recognizing that the company’s current market valuation does not fully reflect the value of its holdings and future cash flows. When Morgan Stanley succumbed to the charm of cryptocurrenciesMorgan Stanley announced that it is launching cryptocurrency trading through the ETrade platform, with transaction costs of 50 basis points. This cost is lower than that of competing platforms such as Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab. The pilot program will expand to ETrade’s 8.6 million customers by the end of 2026. The language used by Wealth Management head Jed Finn leaves no doubt about the strategic intent: “disintermediating the disintermediators.” Morgan Stanley wants to displace those who once displaced traditional banks. Coinbase was built in the vacuum left by Wall Street. Now Wall Street is returning. Morgan Stanley is already marketing its Bitcoin ETF mutual fund, planning new products for Ether and Solana, has filed for a national trust bank charter so it can itself custody digital assets, and is examining the possibility of converting crypto holdings into exchange-traded funds without selling them. MSBT, Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF, raised more than $100 million in its first six days exclusively from retail investor clients, before the bank’s advisers had even begun recommending it. Demand came before supply. That is the most eloquent sign. Coinbase popularized cryptocurrencies. Morgan Stanley institutionalized them. The Japanese government began interventions to support the yenThe Japanese government admitted that last Thursday it spent approximately $34.5 billion to halt the yen’s collapse. It was the first intervention in foreign exchange markets since July 2024. The exchange rate had reached 160.72 yen per dollar, the weakest level since mid-2024. Following the intervention, the yen rebounded to 155.50 per dollar, marking its biggest daily gain in three years. The estimated expenditure of ¥5.4 trillion exceeds the average ¥3.8 trillion spent in each of the four interventions during 2024. It is notable that Tokyo informed the US government before the intervention, in what appeared to be a climate of coordinated tolerance from Washington. This was the first such move under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, indicating that the new government is maintaining the same “red line” as previous administrations. The root of the problem remains untouched. The yen remains under constant pressure because of the large interest-rate differential between the US and Japan, worsened by high oil prices that strengthen the dollar. The Bank of Japan maintained its policy rate at 0.75% for a fourth consecutive meeting, while 10-year Japanese government bonds approached 2.50%, the highest level since July 1997. It is obvious that the battle is not over. Markets want rate cuts from the Fed and rate hikes from the BOJ in order to end the infamous carry trade once and for all—borrowing cheap yen and investing in dollar-denominated assets for easy profits. “Paper barrels” do not fill storage tanksLast week Brent crude oil reached $122 per barrel, its highest price since March 2022. Yesterday morning the market opened at $108, but after the suspension of the POTUS “Freedom Operation” and Axios reports suggesting an agreement was imminent, prices plunged—down 11% for Brent and 12% for US crude. Something similar had happened on April 17, when there were again hopes of normalization. Futures contracts rushed to price in the peace scenario. The problem, however, is that “paper barrels”—futures contracts—do not fill storage tanks today and tomorrow. At the peak of the crisis, prices for physically delivered crude oil approached $150 per barrel, far above futures prices. That was proof that the system operates with insufficient deliverables. The real crisis lies in refined products. Diesel and aviation jet fuel are especially exposed, because there is no flexibility to increase production elsewhere to offset the loss of exports from the Middle East. The EIA predicts that US distillate inventories will remain below the five-year average, while Europe and Asia remain critically dependent on diesel imports from the Middle East. Supply chains are already feeling the shortages. The collapse in LPG and naphtha supplies is forcing petrochemical plants to cut polymer production, worsening disruptions from the Gulf and affecting plastics, textiles, packaging, and construction. European airports are facing acute jet-fuel shortages, with estimates suggesting stocks could run out within weeks if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Who holds the world’s remaining oil reservesGlobal oil reserves are currently estimated at 8.1 billion barrels. Roughly half are located in advanced economies. Crude oil inventories in oil-importing Asian countries fell to 31 million barrels in March, with further declines in April. Asian petrochemical producers were forced to cut production as feedstocks ran out. This uneven distribution creates winners and losers. Countries with large strategic petroleum reserves—the US, Germany, Japan—can endure longer. Saudi Arabia and the UAE can redirect part of their production to terminals outside the Gulf, but those quantities are only a drop in the ocean. Brent prices have already risen 50% since the beginning of the year, while the World Bank forecasts a 24% increase in energy prices for 2026, higher than any year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In April, the oil market experienced something unprecedented. Global inventories outside the Persian Gulf recorded a record daily decline of 6.6 million barrels, amounting to 205 million barrels in a single month. This hemorrhaging of inventories is what kept prices contained. Artificial intelligence is abandoning copper and turning to glassNvidia announced yesterday that it will pay $500 million to acquire rights to purchase shares in Corning. Corning is a 175-year-old glass manufacturer that has suddenly found itself at the center of the artificial intelligence revolution. The deal expands the long-standing commercial and technological partnership between Nvidia and Corning in optical connectivity. Three new factories in North Carolina and Texas, along with more than 3,000 new jobs, will increase American optical-connectivity production capacity tenfold and boost optical-fiber output by more than 50%. Corning will attempt to bring glass fibers directly between the chips themselves, eventually replacing the 5,000 copper cables used in Nvidia systems. Optical fiber transfers data as photons, with speeds and energy efficiency that copper cannot approach. Corning’s stock surged as much as 20%. It has already gained more than 250% over the past year, further boosted by Meta’s commitment of up to $6 billion to expand optical-cable production. Corning announced targets of annual revenue reaching $20 billion by the end of 2026, $30 billion by 2028, and $40 billion by 2030. Explore related questions

TRADING UPDATE Irish Continental Group plc (“ICG” or “the Group”) issues this trading update which covers carryings for the year to date to 2 May 2026 and financial information for the first four months of 2026, i.e. 1 January to 30 April with comparisons against the corresponding period in 2025. All figures are unaudited. Volumes (Year to date, 2 May 2026) Volumes (Since last update, 1 March to 2 May 2026) Recent geopolitical developments in the Middle East have resulted in increased fuel prices, which can only be negative for everyone living on an island off Northwest Europe. Apart from the obvious increased cost of getting on and off the Island, there are secondary impacts on inflation, interest rates and the general cost of living. While the Group’s consistent policy is not to financially hedge fuel prices, we do have a well-established mechanism for applying fuel surcharges on all freight movements on a monthly lagged basis. The strength of the Group’s diversified business model and balance sheet continues to position us well to respond to changing market conditions and to capitalise on selective opportunities as they arise. The Group has remained disciplined in deploying capital and continues to evaluate opportunities to enhance its fleet and service offering on attractive terms. Recent investments, including vessel acquisitions, support the Group’s long‑term growth strategy and enhance capacity across key routes. Consolidated Group revenue in the period was €215.9 million (2025: €189.5 million), an increase of 13.9% compared with last year. The 100% application of the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) for 2026 and increased fuel surcharges have contributed to this increase. For banking covenant purposes, pre-IFRS 16 net debt figures were €128.9 million compared to €133.5 million at 31 December 2025. On an IFRS basis to include lease obligations, net debt figures were €255.8 million compared to €256.1 million at 31 December 2025. Ferries Division Total revenues recorded in the period to 30 April amounted to €138.6 million (2025: €118.8 million) (including intra-division charter income), which was a 16.7% increase on the prior year. For the year to 2 May, Irish Ferries carried 135,200 cars (2025: 139,200 cars), a decrease of 2.9% on the previous year. Freight carryings were 270,900 RoRo units (2025: 257,600 units), an increase of 5.2% compared with 2025. The beginning of 2026 has seen volume growth in the Group’s freight business, alongside softer car volumes. In the prior year, both car and freight volumes were impacted by the temporary closure of Holyhead Port in early January 2025. Total revenues also include customer surcharges related to fuel movements and the cost of emission allowances under the EU Emission Trading System (ETS). Container and Terminal Division Total revenues recorded in the period to 30 April amounted to €87.6 million (2025: €80.9 million), an 8.3% increase on the prior year. For the year to 2 May, container freight volumes shipped were 126,800 teu (2025: 131,800 teu) a decrease of 3.8% on the previous year. Volumes handled at our terminals in Dublin and Belfast totalled 125,200 units (2025: 122,500 units), an increase of 2.2% year on year. Total revenues include customer surcharges covering fuel movements, emission costs under ETS and the impact of changes in the costs of chartering container ships. About Irish Continental Group plc Irish Continental Group plc is the leading Irish-based maritime transport group. The Group’s activities include the transport of passengers, cars and Roll on Roll off (RoRo) freight under the Irish Ferries brand, on routes between each of Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe. The Group also provides Container Lift on Lift off (LoLo) freight services on routes between Ireland and Continental Europe under the Eucon brand. Other activities include the operation of container terminals in the ports of Dublin and Belfast and ship chartering activities. For the year ended 31 December 2025, ICG reported revenue of €666.7 million and EBITDA of €150.6 million. Dublin.7 May 2026 Enquiries Eamonn Rothwell, CEO +353 1 607 5628 info@icg.ieDavid Ledwidge, CFO +353 1 607 5628 info@icg.ieQ4 Public Relations +353 1 475 1444 press@q4pr.ie

Hyperscalers building out AI infrastructure have run into a hard constraint: electricity. Training clusters and inference farms need round-the-clock baseload power, and grids in Virginia, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest are already strained. That has pushed Microsoft, Amazon, and Google toward direct purchase agreements for nuclear power with utilities and small modular reactor developers, with all three having signed such agreements over the past two years. The three exchange-traded funds most directly exposed to that buildout are theSprott Uranium Miners ETF(NYSEARCA:URNM), theRange Nuclear Renaissance Index ETF(NASDAQ:NUKZ), and theThemes Uranium & Nuclear ETF(NASDAQ:URAN). Uranium exposure comes in three distinct flavors across these funds. URNM focuses almost entirely on pure uranium miners and physical uranium, giving it the most concentrated link to the commodity. NUKZ takes a wider view of the sector by spreading its holdings across the full nuclear value chain, including reactor operators and SMR developers. URAN offers a quieter blended approach that mixes miners with broader nuclear‑related names. Recent performance has moved in the same direction but at different speeds. URNM has climbed roughly 89% over the past year, NUKZ has gained about 73%, and URAN has advanced around 65%, all of which have benefited from the surge in AI‑driven power demand. Data center load growth is the force that broke the grid‑planning assumptions of the past decade. Solar and wind can add capacity, but they cannot provide the firm, round‑the‑clock supply that AI training demands without storage costs that wipe out the economics. Natural gas can meet the load, yet it brings carbon obligations that clash with the net‑zero commitments hyperscalers have already made to shareholders. Nuclear ends up as the only scalable zero‑carbon baseload option, which explains why operators have begun restarting retired reactors and signing long‑dated offtake agreements with cloud providers. The investment case for the three funds below flows directly from that supply‑demand setup. URNM is the most direct way to express a view that uranium prices keep rising as utilities and hyperscalers compete for fuel. The fund tracks the North Shore Sprott Uranium Miners Index and concentrates capital in companies whose earnings move with the spot and term uranium prices rather than with broader nuclear services revenue. The portfolio leans heavily on a small group of names. Cameco sits at the top at about 21% of net assets, followed by the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust at roughly 14% and NexGen Energy near 13%. The top three holdings make up about 47% of the fund. The physical uranium trust position gives URNM something most peers do not: a slug of direct commodity exposure that responds to spot price moves without the operational risk of a single mine. Geographic spread spans North American producers such as Uranium Energy, Denison, and Energy Fuels, Australia’s Paladin, UK-listed Yellow Cake, and Kazakhstan’s Kazatomprom. The expense ratio is about 0.8%, on the higher end for thematic ETFs but standard for a specialized commodity miner fund. The trade-off with URNM is the risk of concentration in both names and themes. A weak quarter from Cameco or a uranium price pullback hits the fund harder than it would a diversified nuclear vehicle. Year-to-date, URNM has gained about 18%, and the five-year return is near 130%, capturing both the upside and the volatility associated with uranium-linked equities. NUKZ is the fund that most closely aligns with the AI data center thesis. Where URNM bets on uranium fuel pricing, NUKZ holds companies that actually sell power to hyperscalers, build next-generation reactors, and supply engineering services for new construction. The portfolio combines reactor-operating utilities, advanced-reactor and small-modular-reactor developers, uranium miners, and nuclear construction and services firms. That mix matters because the AI nuclear story spans fuel demand, utilities like Constellation negotiating long-term offtake contracts, about SMR developers like Oklo and NuScale pursuing first commercial deployments, and about engineering firms positioned to capture reactor restart and new-build work. NUKZ holds across those layers in a single product, which means a single hyperscaler PPA announcement tends to lift multiple holdings at once rather than concentrate gains in the miner side of the trade. Performance over the past year reflects that breadth. NUKZ has returned about 15% year to date and 73% over the past year, with a smoother trajectory than URNM because utility holdings dampen the swings tied to uranium spot moves. The tradeoff is the inverse of URNM’s: investors give up direct fuel-price leverage in exchange for diversified exposure to the buildout. If uranium spikes sharply, URNM captures more of it. If the story plays out as a multi-year capex cycle across utilities and reactor builders, NUKZ captures more of that. URAN is the overlooked option in this category. Themes ETFs, the issuer behind the fund, has built its product line around competing on cost against established thematic peers, and URAN follows that pattern. The fund holds a global mix of uranium miners and nuclear-energy companies, which puts its exposure profile somewhere between URNM’s pure-miner concentration and NUKZ’s broader value-chain approach. Smaller AUM and a more recent launch mean URAN trades with wider bid-ask spreads than its larger peers, which matters more for active traders than for buy-and-hold investors. The fund has logged about an 11% year-to-date gain and a 65% one-year return, tracking the category but at a lower cost basis if the issuer’s typical expense ratio positioning holds. For investors seeking blended uranium-plus-nuclear exposure without paying the premium associated with category-leading AUM, URAN serves as a reasonable substitute. The tradeoff is liquidity and track record. The fund has not been through a full uranium cycle, and lower trading volume can produce execution friction during sharp moves in the underlying equities. Choosing between the three funds starts with deciding what an investor wants the trade to express. URNM speaks to a view that uranium spot and term prices keep climbing as utility and hyperscaler demand outstrips mine supply, and its concentration in Cameco, NexGen, and physical uranium magnifies that bet. NUKZ lines up most directly with the AI data‑center story because it bundles utilities signing long‑dated PPAs, SMR developers drawing hyperscaler capital, and the engineering firms building new capacity. URAN appeals to a cost‑conscious investor who wants blended exposure and is comfortable trading lower liquidity and a shorter history for a lighter expense profile. The three funds are not substitutes for one another. The right choice depends entirely on which slice of the nuclear‑AI buildout an investor wants to own.

Si è tenuto in sede regionale l'atteso incontro del tavolo avente ad oggetto l’evoluzione del polo industriale petrolchimico dell’area veneziana di Porto Marghera, Venezia. Una delegazione di Eni e delle sue società controllate Versalis, Enilive ed Eni Rewind, ha rappresentato all’assessore regionale Massimo Bitonci e alle parti sociali, lo stato di attuazione e gli investimenti previsti per la trasformazione dell’area industriale di Porto Marghera. Clicca qui per iscriverti al canale WhatsApp di VeneziaToday Il progetto, avviato nel 2022 con la fermata del cracking, vale complessivamente oltre 900 milioni di euro, rispetto ai 500 previsti, e prevede attività in ambito di chimica circolare di Versalis, il potenziamento della bioraffineria Enilive e lo sviluppo di un polo per la produzione e l’utilizzo dell’idrogeno per la mobilità pubblica. «Il confronto – ha detto Bitonci – dopo il riferimento al contesto globale turbolento e in continua ridefinizione, si è sviluppato in merito alle aree da reindustrializzare. Parliamo di una superficie particolarmente estesa e di lotti già messi a disposizione da ENI in un accordo con l’Autorità Portuale per l’insediamento di nuove attività. Su questo tema abbiamo registrato la preoccupazione sindacale che il futuro industriale di Porto Marghera non la declassasse a una funzione di mera logistica o di “parcheggio”. Su questo punto ho chiarito che, come Regione, l’azione per attrarre gli investimenti nell’area punta ad attività industriali ad alto valore aggiunto, un obiettivo che abbiamo condiviso anche con il gruppo ENI». Il piano da 900 milioni dopo lo stop al cracking Eni infatti ha riassunto i suoi piani nell'area, ma per i sindacati non basta, si tratta di «impegni generici». In breve. Versalis ha completato la prima fase del polo per il riciclo meccanico avanzato delle plastiche post-consumo (polimeri stirenici e poliolefine) da 20 mila tonnellate anno: le 4 linee saranno in marcia entro maggio 2026. La seconda fase è in fase di sviluppo, è stata ottimizzata la configurazione dell’impianto e conclusa l’ingegneria di base, e si procede con lo studio di fattibilità che definirà i prossimi step. Gli investimenti per il potenziamento dell’hub logistico, per Eni sono da tempo avviati al fine di aumentare la flessibilità e affidabilità degli approvvigionamenti. Nello specifico, è già completata l’installazione di nuovi bracci di carico per etilene/propilene, sono in corso gli interventi alle banchine e le attività preliminari sull’area dove è previsto il nuovo serbatoio criogenico etilene, che consentirà di incrementare la flessibilità di stoccaggio. La Bioraffineria Enilive «è al centro di importanti investimenti finalizzati ad aumentare l’impiego di materie prime di scarto e residui, tra cui oli vegetali esausti, grassi animali e altri sottoprodotti dei processi industriali, utilizzati per la produzione di biocarburanti». È in fase di completamento il nuovo impianto di Steam Reforming, che consentirà la produzione di idrogeno non solo da metano, ma anche da HVO nafta e HVO GPL, rafforzando la flessibilità e la sostenibilità del sistema industriale. Parallelamente è previsto il potenziamento dell’impianto Ecofining, con un incremento della capacità di trattamento da 400.000 a 600.000 tonnellate annue. Sempre nell’area di Porto Marghera sono inoltre in costruzione la stazione di distribuzione di idrogeno rinnovabile di Enilive, destinata al rifornimento degli autobus a idrogeno del trasporto pubblico AVM, e l’impianto da 8 MW per la produzione di idrogeno rinnovabile di Green Hydrogen Venezia. L’idrogeno prodotto sarà fornito tramite pipeline alla nuova stazione di distribuzione idrogeno di Enilive. Infine, in ambito rinnovabili, Plenitude ha realizzato e da tempo avviato impianti fotovoltaici in due aree di Eni Rewind non idonee ad altri utilizzi: sono in produzione in totale 6,2 MW (“Lotto 12 - Area ex-Ausidet” e “Lotto 15” nelle aree del Nuovo Petrolchimico a Porto Marghera). Manca il cronoprogramma, preoccupazione dei sindacati «Nei prossimi giorni - conclude Bitonci - riceveremo da ENI il dettaglio della progettualità del Gruppo nell’area e il cronoprogramma aggiornato, un documento che condivideremo con le Parti sindacali. Abbiamo convenuto che il tavolo si riaggiornerà nel mese di settembre per valutare risultati e avanzamenti». Michele Pettenò, segratario di Filctem Cgil Venezia, non è per nulla soddisfatto: «Il punto centrale resta irrisolto: cosa intende fare Eni delle aree che non utilizza più? Quale piano industriale esiste per garantire nuova occupazione, investimenti, riconversione produttiva e continuità industriale? Su questo non abbiamo avuto risposte sufficienti. E senza una risposta chiara sull’utilizzo delle aree, ogni ragionamento sul futuro di Marghera rischia di rimanere sospeso». Critico anche Francesco Coco, della Femca Cisl, pur con toni diversi: «Come Femca Cisl di Venezia abbiamo ribadito l'importanza della realizzazione degli investimenti nella Bioraffineria, quello che manca è un vero progetto industriale nell’area del Petrolchimico per evitare che tale area diventi solo un hub logistico. Abbiamo fatto presente che serve dare risposte di prospettiva anche ai lavoratori del Consorzio Spm (Servizi Porto Marghera), che non essendo Eni, vanno tutelati e collocati in un contesto di tenuta industriale». Più ottimista Roberto Toigo, della Uil Veneto: «Le notizie sugli investimenti assicurati da Eni ci dimostrano che è possibile una reindustralizzazione. La partita è complicata, ma va riconosciuto il lavoro che l’assessore Bitonci e l’unità di crisi stanno portando avanti. Seguiremo, come confederazione e con le categorie interessate, i prossimi passi, pronti a dare il nostro supporto per il rilancio dell’area» commenta.

Delfin Midstream, a U.S.-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure development company, has sealed a new multi-year LNG supply agreement with Gunvor International B.V. Amsterdam, Geneva Branch (Gunvor). Gunvor has entered into a 20-year LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) withDelfin LNGfor the supply of 0.3 million tonnes of LNG per annum (mtpa) on a free-on-board (FOB) basis at theDelfin FLNG1facility, located 40 nautical miles off the coast of Louisiana. This followsthe SPAwith Expand Energy for approximately 1.15 million tonnes per year of LNG on April 22, 2026. Kalpesh Patel, Co-Head of LNG Trading and member of the Management Board of Gunvor, commented:“We are very pleased to announce another long-term partnership with Delfin. The deal represents further enhancement of Gunvor’s LNG portfolio and together with our robust fleet, we will continue to position ourselves as a reliable supplier of LNG to all destinations around the globe.” The Delfin LNG brownfield deepwater port is said to require minimal additional infrastructure investment to support up to three floating LNG (FLNG) vessels producing up to 13.2 mtpa of LNG. The project alreadyreceiveda deepwater port license from the Maritime Administration (MARAD) andapprovalfrom the U.S. Department of Energy for long-term exports of LNG to non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries. Dudley Poston, CEO of Delfin, highlighted:“We look forward to building on our longstanding partnership with Gunvor as we continue to advance the development of critical energy infrastructure in the U.S. This additional agreement further highlights our strength as a dependable long-term supplier of clean and scalable LNG solutions.” Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

3 minuti di lettura Nel mondo della nautica le dichiarazioni ambientali sono sempre più diffuse. Tuttavia, ciò che spesso manca è la qualità delle evidenze che le sostengono. È proprio su questa distinzione che nasce Blue Wake, il framework sviluppato dal Monaco Yacht Show in collaborazione con la Water Revolution Foundation, con l’obiettivo di introdurre un nuovo standard di validazione delle soluzioni sostenibili. Non si tratta, infatti, di premiare intenzioni o promesse, ma di verificare ciò che è realmente operativo, misurabile e dimostrabile. In altre parole, un sistema costruito per distinguere tra innovazione concreta e semplice comunicazione “green”. Quattro dimensioni per valutare l’impatto reale Alla base del modello Blue Wake c’è una valutazione tecnica strutturata su quattro aree chiave, pensate per analizzare l’impatto ambientale in modo completo e non parziale. In primo luogo, la riduzione delle emissioni viene esaminata lungo l’intero ciclo di vita della soluzione, includendo non solo i gas serra (GHG), ma anche NOx, SOx e particolato, superando così l’analisi limitata alla fase di utilizzo. A questa si affianca la circolarità dei materiali, che prende in considerazione aspetti come il contenuto rinnovabile, la possibilità di riparazione e le strategie di fine vita, come il recupero o il riciclo. Un terzo elemento riguarda l’eco-design e l’innovazione, valutando se la sostenibilità sia stata integrata fin dalle prime fasi progettuali o introdotta solo successivamente. Infine, particolare attenzione viene dedicata alla protezione degli ecosistemi marini, includendo parametri spesso trascurati come l’utilizzo di rivestimenti non tossici o la riduzione del rumore subacqueo, fattori fondamentali per la tutela dell’ambiente. Nel loro insieme, questi quattro pilastri impediscono approcci selettivi e garantiscono una lettura completa dell’impatto reale di ogni soluzione. Soglie calibrate per favorire l’innovazione concreta Uno degli aspetti più interessanti del framework 2026 è l’introduzione di criteri differenziati in base alla tipologia di tecnologia. Le soluzioni ad alto impatto, come i sistemi di propulsione, beneficiano di soglie di accesso più flessibili, con l’obiettivo di non penalizzare innovazioni complesse ma potenzialmente rivoluzionarie. Al contrario, prodotti appartenenti a categorie meno impattanti o con maggiore rischio di greenwashing sono sottoposti a requisiti più stringenti. Una scelta progettuale precisa, che mira a accelerare l’innovazione credibile, evitando di premiare soluzioni che si limitano a miglioramenti marginali o comunicativi. La centralità della prova: dati, documenti e verifiche Elemento distintivo di Blue Wake è il principio della prova documentata. “Blue Wake – sottolinea Leah Werner, Executive Director della Water Revolution Foundation – si basa su dati e trasparenza: non accettiamo dichiarazioni di marketing senza evidenze quantificabili. I partecipanti devono fornire documentazione verificabile, dalle valutazioni YETI o TS23099 agli studi di ciclo di vita ISO 14040/44, fino a dati reali raccolti in condizioni operative.” Si tratta quindi di un approccio rigoroso, che introduce nel settore nautico strumenti tipici della ricerca scientifica e dell’ingegneria ambientale, elevando il livello di affidabilità delle informazioni disponibili. Trasparenza come valore competitivo Il valore del framework Blue Wake non risiede soltanto nel riconoscimento finale, ma soprattutto nella trasparenza che rende leggibili i dati. In un mercato in cui armatori, charterer, investitori e regolatori sono sempre più attenti alla sostenibilità, la capacità di distinguere tra affermazioni verificate e non verificate diventa un elemento strategico. Proprio per questo, sistemi come Blue Wake assumono un ruolo sempre più centrale: non come semplice etichetta, ma come strumento di verifica indipendente, basato su metodologia chiara, evidenze tracciabili e criteri condivisi. In definitiva, un modello che segna un passaggio importante per l’intero settore: dalla sostenibilità dichiarata alla sostenibilità dimostrata.

Getty Images/iStockphoto AI needs data centers, but many residents don't want them. Developers are building data centers across the country to support growing cloud demand and AI infrastructure needs. What started as mundane industrial development has snowballed into a charged public debate, raising questions about how data center development affects the communities around them. Through town hall shouting matches, ballot petitions, rallies and sometimes even violent altercations, communities are coming together to oppose development. According to arecent reportfrom Data Center Watch, local, bipartisan opposition blocked or delayed $64 billion worth of data center projects between March 2024 and March 2025. As of March 2025, at least 142 activist organizations existed across 24 states -- and experts have suggested that number has grown in the past year as data center opposition gathers even more traction. "Community groups are not going away," said Jessica Sharp, a Wilmington, Ohio, resident who's organizing efforts to oppose the proposed $4 billion AWS data center campus in her city. "You're not just going to steamroll us. We've built too much momentum by working together … and we're not giving up the fight and our way of life." Many residents feel they're owed more than what operators are offering in exchange for accepting data centers in their towns and cities. Others feel that data center development should be halted or significantly reduced. And many more say that, above all else, the system for data center development is broken, as new developers too often ignore stakeholder concerns to bullishly push their builds forward. As more businesses adopt and deploy AI, they will increasingly depend on these data centers. Business leaders consequently need to consider how concerns about data center development can affect their own AI strategies -- from delayed or canceled projects to escalated costs to reputational backlash. Businesses have a role to play in advocating for input, transparency, participation and collaboration from all affected parties, especially residents, to help move the needle on the issues surrounding AI data center development today. Burgeoning interest in AI has led to the proliferation of new data centers in recent years. They house the servers, networking equipment and other IT infrastructure that power AI. While similar to traditional data centers, the current crop ofdata centers supporting the AI boomhas unique needs, such as specialized hardware and vast computing power. Recent McKinsey & Company researchestimatedthatAI data centerswill require $5.2 trillion in Capex by 2030 to meet global demand for AI. Many companies are already making the necessary investment; S&P Globalsaid at the end of 2025that data center M&A and investment hit over $61 billion worldwide, with the U.S. leading the way in data center growth. Much of that growth comes from massive cloud service providers such as AWS and Google. Often called hyperscalers, these companies operate specialized data centers for extreme scale. A hyperscale data centercan housemore than 5,000 servers and use upward of 100 megawatts (MW) of power, covering 10,000 or more square feet and requiring massive energy and cooling systems. "We need more data centers because AI is taking off," said Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation. "AI is being deployed virtually in every area … and it requires very high computational power, so data centers provide that type of computer processing." To build these data centers, developers are turning to rural areas with less advanced technology. Large land masses in states like Virginia, Texas and Ohio are prime targets. As of April 2026, according to Data Center Map,Virginia alonehas 598 data centers, many of which make up what's called the Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Va. Texas sits at 439, and Ohio has 203. Data center locations usually depend on the availability of land, electricity, water and other resources, as well as the incentives and other unique advantages a community or state might offer, West said. For example, Virginia offers proximity to federal government agencies, which are increasingly using AI, especially for defense, along with the state's land and energy resources, he said. Community leaders often pursue and partner with data center operators, welcoming development of these facilities for their potential benefits, such as job growth and tax revenue. An AI data center can create hundreds of jobs, said Douglas Swain, president of Logistix Property Group, a land development company specializing in data center land entitlement. What's more important is the quality of jobs, he added, noting that jobs at these facilities typically pay 50% more than a state's average wage. They're tech jobs in a growing tech industry. Data centers particularly promote job growth during construction, said Dan Diorio, vice president of state policy at the Data Center Coalition. For example, from May 2023 to May 2024, the U.S. Census Bureaumeasuredthat data center construction spending increased by 69%, he said. And in 2023 alone, the U.S. data center industry contributed over four million jobs and $400 billion in labor income, according to the Data Center Coalition's2025 study, "Economic contributions of data centers in the United States." "[Workers] make careers out of these short-term jobs," Diorio said. These jobs give them the experience and education they need to move on to more projects. For campus data centers -- which are particularly large and often hyperscaler-funded -- community benefit is even more fruitful, Swain added. Those projects take longer and involve multiple buildings and long-term vendors, so the jobs are more sustainable. That, in turn, can lead to more demand and investment in nearby housing and other infrastructure. "There's a lot of spin-off benefits in terms of eating, living and spending money within the community," he said. Data centers also sometimes offer a cleaner alternative to existing industrial infrastructure. For example, adata center projectin Jay, Maine, is on the site of a former paper mill. The data center would use less water than the paper mill did, and developers plan to replace the on-site gas-fired power plant with a solar field. Because the state anticipated the project to be significantly beneficial to the town, Gov. Janet Mills sought to exempt it from a bill proposing a temporary moratorium on data center development in March 2026; Gov. Mills subsequently vetoed that bill in April, and the state legislature wasunable to override that veto. Another benefit that spurs community involvement is property tax revenue. Operators can pay massive property taxes back to the cities and towns, money that these communities can use for infrastructure and other needs, West said. This is already happening in certain areas. For example, Covington, Ga.,plans to eliminateresidential property taxes entirely due to the revenue it expects to receive from an AWS data center under construction there, Diorio said. In exchange for the tax revenue AI data centers promise and to compete with offers from other municipalities, community leaders have historically offered operators tax abatements or other incentives. These can include sales tax exemptions, tax incremental financing (TIF) agreements and payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs). These financial incentives ensure that AI data centers return predictable, long-term revenue. However, some residents said tax incentives aren't always in the community's best interest. Quintin Kroger Kidd, a Wilmington resident, is part of active protests against the AWS data center campus, which is in the initial stages of development. AWS sought a 30-year, 100% property tax abatement for the data center. Under theproposed TIF agreement, the city and various city organizations, such as the Wilmington City Schools, would receive a PILOT that amounts to only about 30% of the property tax AWS would have to pay without the abatement, Kidd explained. Many residents, including Kidd, view these tax breaks as a free handout to billionaire developers. And sentiment against tax abatement is prevalent in other areas where data centers are going in. "These big tech companies think that they have their choice of the land, and they have these small rural towns, whose officials don't know better, tripping over themselves to hand out things like tax abatements," Sharp said. "It stems from misunderstandings and also data center lobbyist groups acting like this is a clean industry and no public health impacts, which couldn't be further from the truth." Prior to the AI boom, data center development often facilitated a symbiotic relationship between developers and communities. However, given rising concerns about the negative effects that hyperscale data centers can potentially have on communities, residents are realizing they have more bargaining power with data center developers than they might have originally thought, Brookings' West said. For that reason, tax abatements are becoming less common than they were even six months ago. "Instead of paying the companies by offering tax incentives, [communities] are now demanding that companies pay them -- that they pay their full taxes and also provide other financial benefits in the community to quell the public concerns that have developed about data centers," West said. Despite the allure of economic growth, many residents are concerned about living near an AI data center. There's often a fundamental ideological difference between community members and what a data center represents, West said. In rural areas, residents particularly enjoy the rugged landscape; they would much rather look out their window at farmland instead of a large data center. Aside from data centers being an eyesore, residents cite a range of concerns, starting with their utility bills. Because AI data centers require massive amounts of electricity, residents worry they'll drive up regional electricity demand, causing bills to skyrocket. Another fear is that increased demand could cause grid overload that leads to supply issues, especially in hot summer months. "On social media, you see a lot of posts about people complaining about their utility bills," Kidd said. These facilities can sometimesuse more energythan large cities. That, coupled with the rapid growth of data centers in concentrated areas, could cause bills to rise -- either because of distributed increases in utility infrastructure costs or because demand is rising faster than energy supply. Data center operators often disclose plans to bear the cost of new infrastructure or demand, but verifying these commitments and operator compliance can be difficult due to confidential contracts. "We had an [electricity] rate increase last year, and AEP Ohio just announced there's another 40% interest increase coming this year," said Nikki Gerber, a resident of Adams County, Ohio. "We don't even have a data center here yet -- we are paying for the demand needed up at the ones in Columbus and New Albany," two other Ohio cities with data center development. There's also growing concern over water use. AI data centers often consume up tofive million gallonsof water per day for cooling. Many residents anticipate that water will primarily come from surrounding freshwater sources, leading to increased strain and even shortages. For Gerber, water is a particular concern. She has repeatedly asked officials and developers what damage the proposed data center in Adams County will cause the town's aquifer and has suggested they conduct impact studies. She said she hasn't received a response. Water use has also raised red flags for environmental conservationists. For example, a proposed data center in Urbana, Ohio, is two miles from Cedar Bog Nature Preserve, a protected wetlands area. Many residents, along with the Cedar Bog Association, haveopposed the development, citing concerns over how groundwater disruption could affect Cedar Bog. The Urbana city councilrecently passeda 12-month moratorium on data center development to study its potential impact. The proposed AWS data center in Wilmington has sparked similar concerns about its effects on wildlife. TheOhio Environmental Protection Agencyis currently deciding whether to permit data centers to release untreated wastewater and stormwater into Ohio rivers and streams.Data center water pollutantsinclude biocides, corrosion inhibitors and heavy metals, such as lead. Many people are anxious about how introducing these pollutants into the water systems will affect wildlife and potable water in Wilmington and across the state, Kidd said. Living close to a hyperscale data center can also cause adverse health effects from air pollution, noise and other sources,according to a recent studyof Virginia's Data Center Alley. Effects range from steady light pollution that keeps residents awake at night to long-term health outcomes like respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Data Center Coalition's Diorio questioned the methodology of that study, noting how it, and much of the rhetoric on health effects, overestimated the time data center generators are on. Those generators operate only during emergencies and short testing and maintenance periods, he said, citing Virginia's Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (VJLARC)2024 studythat found generators in the Data Center Alley area were used at most twice a year and only for a few hours each time. Diesel generators are a "relatively small contributor to regional air pollution," the study said. At the AWS data center in Wilmington, Ohio, the plans include 252 generators that will be used for backup power. Each generator is expected to run for about ten hours per year for testing, maintenance and emergencies, said John Werkman, economic development manager with Amazon, at arecent special town meeting. That's higher use than the VJLARC study found. Sharp's backyard faces the proposed Wilmington AWS data center. She said one of her top concerns is how the long construction period will affect her family. "That's going to be a huge burden, especially felt by the families in the closest proximity," she said. Data centers often emit low-frequency noise pollution, Sharp said. "In the air-cooled facilities like AWS uses, the fans are extremely noisy and create a lot of low-frequency noise," she said. "With ambient noise being so quiet in a rural community, that's going to be really pervasive and irritating." Sharp is also concerned about air pollution, noting that the hyperscale facility could negatively affect air quality compared to the current open field at the proposed data center location. "My husband has asthma, so I worry about him and our kids having disproportionate health impacts," she said. For some residents, lackluster job growth and housing are also issues. The jobs promised by data center developers either aren't enough to justify the development or are given to outsiders more often than to locals. "On some of the new data centers that are being developed, we found in our research that they typically might generate 500 construction jobs over a period of several years, and then once the data center is up and running, it may require just 100 jobs to operate," West said. Fluctuating job growth leaves residents weary. A 2025Business Insider analysisfound that, on average, even the largest U.S. data centers employ fewer than 150 permanent workers. Moreover, many residents worry that, because there's no mandate to hire from within the community, outsiders will move into the area seeking jobs, raising rents and reducing housing availability -- as was the case in Abilene, Texas, where Stargate's data center expansioncaused a serious housing crisislast year. In more rural areas, community members cite home value depreciation from the moment a data center is announced. "There are 'For Sale' signs all over my neighborhood," Sharp said. "I've seen houses on the market since December with no movement -- and this is in what was once a desirable area in Wilmington. It's not normal here to see a house on the market for five to six months, and some of these are brand new homes." For residents, the top worry about data center development often isn't housing issues, rising utility bills or even adverse environmental impacts. Their main concern is that they're too often left out of the conversation entirely. In the initial stages of data center development, agreements between operators and local governments are typically confidential. Local officials and groups sometimes sign nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, that bar them from discussing proposed developments. The rationale for these agreements is that developers need them to protect competitive advantages and proprietary data, and to ease the flow of information between local officials and infrastructure providers, Diorio said. Some states are even enshrining this sort of confidentiality in law: The recently passedOhio House Bill 184included a confidentiality clause, Sec. 9.66(D), which stated that any business information submitted to a political subdivision for economic development assistance is confidential and can't be disclosed to the public, whether anonymized or not. This clause was particularly upsetting, Kidd said. HB 184 concerned an unrelated issue -- limitations on intercollegiate athlete contracts -- and the inclusion of the confidentiality clause caught residents off guard. In the context of data center development, it means that deals between operators and local government entities remain secret. Many feel this goes against the intention of Ohio's Sunshine Laws. Sharp shared a similar sentiment about the closed-door nature of data center development in Wilmington. The Clinton County Port Authority rushed the process under NDAs, and the data center deal was basically complete before it was public knowledge, she said. This involved changing zoning codes to allow for data center development in light industrial zones and then rezoning a parcel of land for light industrial use -- all without community knowledge. Gerber dealt with similar transparency issues. She spent the past three years working on rerouting the Buckeye Trail -- a famous, more than 1,400-mile trail loop in Ohio -- to make Manchester, Ohio, a trail junction village where hikers could resupply, boosting the local economy. She received approval for the project in January 2026 and was surprised a week later when the village announced that a data center would be built on the land, and her reroute couldn't proceed. It was like having the rug ripped out from under her, she said. "They just completely obliterated everything I was working on," she added. The polarizing nature of massive data center development and the secrecy surrounding some of the deals have left many residents feeling like the status quo must change. "They've taken away our seat at the table to decide what we want for our communities," Sharp said. "From a PR standpoint, they're failing … and completely missing the point of what it means to be a good neighbor in a community." Residents opposed to data center development are making their thoughts known in town halls across the country. The National Conference of State Legislatureslists 14 statesthat are considering some form of a data center development ban. Port Washington, Wis., passed the country's first anti-data centerreferendumlast month. Public opposition is no doubt putting pressure on officials to act. Some residents are taking matters into their own hands. Take Gerber, whose name is on a proposed Ohio constitutional amendment to ban the development of data centers larger than 25 MW in the state. The Ohio Residents for Responsible Development, a grassroots group of concerned citizens, is leading this initiative to amend the state constitution. "We have 72 counties covered out of 88 counties in the state … with county leads taking signatures," she said of the effort to get the more than 400,000 signatures needed to put the amendment on the November state ballot. Sharp is another Ohio citizen fighting data center development. She's the lead organizer for the Wilmington Residents for Responsible Development group. She recentlyfiled a lawsuitagainst Wilmington for its lack of transparency regarding the proposed AWS data center. The complaint alleges the city didn't follow required notice procedures when rezoning the development site -- which is next to residential homes, including Sharp's -- for data center development. The suit also raises other concerns, such as a request for damages to be awarded to the plaintiffs should the rezoning go through, and it calls for more explicit communication and transparency moving forward. Sharp's group also secured enough signatures to get a referendum on the upcoming November ballot so residents can vote on whether to rezone 500 acres for industrial data center development. Joseph Miller, director of PauseAI UK, the British arm of the PauseAI nonprofit that coordinates local groups to mitigate AI risks, said informing people of the risks and local organization are key to getting the attention of governments and decision-makers. One of PauseAI's biggest achievements, Miller said, was organizing the largest AI safety protest in London, drawing 300 people. The U.S. is seeing similar protests, though on a smaller scale. In March 2026,demonstrators in San Franciscocalled on AI companies to halt development, citing existential threats the technology could bring. In a few cases, growing resentment toward data centers and AI technology in general has led to violence. In April 2026, an Indianapoliscity council memberwoke up to find 13 bullet holes in his home and a note on his front door reading "No Data Centers." A few days later, someone targeted the home of Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, with aMolotov cocktail. Many community members aren't going to such extremes, however. For some, like Gerber and Sharp, the goal isn't to stop data center development entirely but to force officials to be more transparent about it. Neither Gerber nor Sharp is opposed to AI itself but rather to the communication tactics of data center developers, operators and local officials. This is an opinion many data center developers and advocacy groups actually share -- more communication and collaboration are needed between local communities and developers. Bruno Berti, senior vice president of global product management at NTT Global Data Centers, a data center operator, said engagement with residents and prioritization of sustainable practices are the secret ingredients in his company's latest data center development projects. An NTT data center project in Gainesville, Va., was ultimately approved for construction after NTT representatives attended local meetings and spoke with residents, Berti said. "It's becoming a lot more prevalent that we have to answer these questions," he said. "Community engagement is going to be bigger for us." Community engagement provides NTT with an opportunity to "demystify narratives" about data centers that are most concerning to residents, Berti added. Take, for example, potential concerns about the rising cost of electricity driven by data center consumption. While studies show that AI data centers can put a massive strain on power grids, that doesn't mean they're always the only culprits behind electricity rate increases. Increases in electric rates can stem from other factors, such as inflation and President Trump's tariffs, but people often attribute them to data center development, Brookings' West said. "The public is connecting data centers to electric rate increases, either fairly or unfairly, and blaming the data center developers for that." The Data Center Coalition's Diorio said grid capacity and electric rates typically are the responsibility of utility providers and depend on the grid infrastructure. Because of outdated systems and providers that haven't invested in their utility infrastructure, some communities can face negative consequences from hosting data centers. There are communities where data centers don't fit residents' needs, Diorio added. Generally, it's the responsibility of developers and operators to ensure they build in areas where they can operate without negatively affecting the people who live there. Practicing this foresight and respecting local communities' interests can demonstrate a commitment to sustainable and responsible development and improve public sentiment. NTT Global and other data center developers are working to engage with residents on their concerns about grid load and electricity rates, Berti said. This includes implementing peak shaving, in which data centers use backup power generation when the community's power load reaches a certain level. This enables data centers to continue operating without drawing excess energy from the grid, preventing brownouts and higher electricity costs for residents and businesses in the area. Increased generator use circles back to concerns about air pollution. Many data centers use diesel generators for backup power, which can harm the surrounding environment. However, some developers are turning to innovative, green technologies, such as fuel cells and renewable energy, Berti said. Fuel cells produce electricity without expelling harmful emissions because they rely on electrochemical reactions rather than combustion. Diorio mentioned that more data centers are using solar, wind and geothermal sources of energy to power operations. Operators are also exploring nuclear power as small modular reactors are being developed in the U.S. According to S&P Global Energy, hyperscalersoutpacedother industries in clean energy procurement in 2024 and 2025; however, they're unlikely to meet the decarbonization goals set for their data centers. While many data centers place substantial strain on water systems, others have managed tocut freshwater useby as much as 70% with more sustainable closed-loop cooling systems, according to the Florida Water and Pollution Control Operators Association. Closed-loop systems consume water once and then reuse it to cool their systems, reducing runoff that drains into local ecosystems or contaminates groundwater. However, closed-loop systems still use chemicals and aren't necessarily a silver bullet. And developers' arguments don't always hold sway with residents. For example, Prologis, which is building a data center in Trenton, Ohio,told the local communitythat increased industrial utility revenue from its data center could offset any residential rate increases; however, its explanations haven't done much to quell residents' concerns. Not all data center development is created equal, and developers that are trying to use sustainable practices have an imperative to communicate that more effectively to the communities involved. Even with these nuances, however, much of today's hyperscale data center development forgoes renewables and isn't as transparent as it could be, leaving residents in the dark about any semblance of benefits or valuable trade-offs. Business leaders have a role to play in the future of data center development with their wallets and their advocacy. As workloads continue to scale and demand more data center resources, businesses must assess which data center operators they want to invest in and what they expect from them in terms of transparent, ethical development. Companies face the potential for disruption if they don't take data center controversies seriously. For example, if a business uses a facility that becomes a target of a local protest, it could experience delayed AI model training or deployment, performance issues due to restricted energy or water use, or higher operational costs as data center operators navigate permit modifications, regulatory compliance and litigation defense. Equally worrisome is the potential for reputational damage. If the data center an enterprise is using becomes the target of negative publicity, it could find itself also targeted by proxy. Businesses can mitigate these risks by partnering with responsible data center operators. These operators prioritize community engagement; use sustainable approaches to energy production and cooling; commit to bolstering community benefits and mitigating harm; and step away from NDAs and confidentiality to increase much-needed transparency. NTT's Berti suggested that NDAs might no longer be necessary for developers. "Part of the secrecy was trying to make sure that people didn't know where the data centers are located. I don't think that's an option anymore. Everybody knows where data centers are," he said. "The other reason we used to do it was we didn't want our competitors to know where we were building a data center." NDAs provided competitive advantages, Berti said, such as preventing competitors from buying up land and negotiating power agreements with local utility companies. However, many of those reasons aren't valid anymore, he added. "If you really look at the industry … there's enough capacity for all of us to be successful," he said. "I think working together is actually more important." While Diorio still sees security and competitive advantage as legitimate justification for data center developers' secrecy, he said he agrees that community engagement pushes the industry forward. Unfortunately, newer developers and operators entering the marketplace are using resources and engaging with community stakeholders irresponsibly, he said. There's no single right answer for how to engage with data center development. For better or worse, data centers are an economic and technology necessity -- not only for AI, but for cloud computing, data storage and everyday devices. However, a divide is quickly emerging in the industry between developers that seek to work with communities and those that develop regardless of community wishes and well-being. It's up to businesses and business leaders to push for the former over the latter, financially incentivizing operators to champion sustainable, transparent strategies, and constructively communicate and collaborate with local communities. To do this, companies can incorporate responsible data center procurement into theirwider ethical AIand green AI initiatives, both of which are increasingly important as responsible AI practices become a must-have in the enterprise. Everett Bishop is an associate site editor for Informa TechTarget's AI & Emerging Tech group, covering AI, quantum computing and other emerging technologies. He graduated from the University of New Haven in 2019. Olivia Wisbey is a site editor for Informa TechTarget's AI & Emerging Tech group. She has experience covering AI, machine learning and other emerging technologies. Decarbonizing data centers: Turning sustainability into strategy How do data centers use and manage water? 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Imagen de presentación de la feria Navalia El naval gallego y especialmente el de la ría de Vigo y Pontevedra navega a full speed por todo el mundo gracias a su know how y la innovación. Ha crecido el empleo un 15 % en el último año y los pedidos están asegurados hasta el 2028, según ha puesto de manifiesto Almudena López del Pozo la consejera delegada de Pymar, la asociación de pequeños y medianos astilleros en la presentación de la feria Navalia. Ha asistido al comité ejecutivo previo a la celebración de la décima edición de la feria bianual, que tendrá lugar del 19 al 21 de mayo en el Instituto Ferial de Vigo (Ifevi). La efemérides volverá a situar a Vigo como epicentro de la industria naval internacional. El director de Navalia, Javier Arnau, ha destacado el momento positivo que atraviesa tanto la feria como el sector, subrayando el crecimiento registrado en esta edición. Navalia contará en 2026 con 602 expositores, frente a los 533 de la edición anterior, lo que supone un incremento cercano al 13%, ocupando la totalidad del espacio expositivo disponible en los cuatro pabellones del recinto. Otra parte del Ifevi está ocupada por los catres para militares por el día de las Fuerzas Armadas. Este crecimiento se refleja también en la dimensión tecnológica y comercial que pasará de algo más de 1.000 marcas representadas en 2024 a 1.200 en esta edición, consolidando su capacidad para generar oportunidades de negocio y atraer innovación. Arnau ha puesto además el acento en el carácter global de la feria, con un aumento significativo de la presencia internacional, especialmente de Asia, y la incorporación de nuevos países como Bulgaria, Chile, Egipto, Hong Kong o Irlanda. Durante su intervención, Arnau ha señalado que «no se trata solo de un crecimiento en cifras, sino de posicionamiento», destacando que la feria se ha consolidado como una herramienta al servicio del sector, capaz de atraer inversión, abrir mercados y marcar tendencias y ya es la primer feria del naval de España. El director de la feria confía en que se resuelva la huelga del metal y no afecte a Navalia. El presidente del evento, José García Costas, ha subrayado que Navalia es «el resultado de dos décadas de trabajo colectivo y continuado al servicio de la industria naval». García Costas ha incidido en que el crecimiento de la feria ha sido «sostenido, equilibrado y alineado con la realidad industrial», lo que ha permitido consolidar su posición como una de las ferias navales más relevantes de Europa. Asimismo, ha apuntado a la necesidad de seguir avanzando en ámbitos estratégicos como la transición energética, la digitalización o la defensa, «en un contexto que exige una mayor colaboración público-privada y apoyo a la industria». Superyates Entre las novedades de esta edición, está un nuevo espacio dedicado al segmento de la náutica, liderado por el Clúster Náutico Rías Baixas. Este espacio contará con más de 450 metros cuadrados de exposición, donde se presentarán soluciones de equipamiento específico y varias embarcaciones recreativas, ampliando así el alcance de la feria hacia un sector con creciente peso económico e industrial. «Está dirigido a los nuevos grandes yates que se están construyendo». También destaca la ampliación de la Zona de Innovación impulsada por el Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Vigo. Este espacio duplicará su superficie con respecto a 2024 hasta alcanzar los 400 metros cuadrados, reforzando su apuesta por el talento, el emprendimiento, las startups y las nuevas tecnologías. Por otro lado, Navalia volverá a apostar por el conocimiento con un programa de más de 30 jornadas técnicas, en las que se abordarán los principales retos del sector. Entre ellos destacan la defensa, la descarbonización del transporte marítimo, la transición energética, la digitalización mediante inteligencia artificial, así como el desarrollo de soluciones en seguridad, eficiencia energética y sostenibilidad. En el comité, Almudena López del Pozo, consejera delegada de Pymar, constituida por los pequeños y medianos astilleros privados, que da impulso y financiación al sector naval, ha reflexionado sobre las claves de la transformación que ha experimentado el sector naval español en los últimos años, entre las que ha destacado: la apuesta por la innovación de los astilleros privados españoles, la gestión eficiente de los instrumentos de financiación y el esfuerzo concertado entre agentes públicos y privados, aspectos que explican el magnífico momento que está viviendo la construcción naval española. «Bruselas ha cambiado y apoya los instrumentos de ayuda la naval como el tax lease». La consejera delegada ha incidido en la importancia del reconocimiento estratégico a nivel europeo de las industrias naval y marítima que se ha materializado en la aprobación por parte de la Comisión Europea de la Estrategia Marítima Europea. Considera que España está en condiciones de consolidar y reforzar su liderazgo europeo en las tipologías de buques más relevantes para la autonomía estratégica y subraya que «los astilleros españoles estamos preparados para afrontar estos retos». «Tenemos las capacidades, la experiencia y el talento humano. Tenemos un modelo de colaboración público-privada que funciona. Y tenemos un sector que ha demostrado, una y otra vez, su capacidad de adaptación y de superación». Pymar ha respaldo con garantías de 4.900 millones la construcción de 832 buques que valen 14.832 millones de euros Refiriéndose a la capacidad exportadora del sector, López del Pozo ha finalizado su intervención con las siguientes palabras: «Estoy convencida de que la décima edición de Navalia será el reflejo de cómo, desde las gradas de Galicia y desde España, estamos construyendo para Europa y para el mundo».

Imagen de presentación de la feria Navalia El naval gallego y especialmente el de la ría de Vigo y Pontevedra navega a full speed por todo el mundo gracias a su know how y la innovación. Ha crecido el empleo un 15 % en el último año y los pedidos están asegurados hasta el 2028, según ha puesto de manifiesto Almudena López del Pozo la consejera delegada de Pymar, la asociación de pequeños y medianos astilleros en la presentación de la feria Navalia. Ha asistido al comité ejecutivo previo a la celebración de la décima edición de la feria bianual, que tendrá lugar del 19 al 21 de mayo en el Instituto Ferial de Vigo (Ifevi). La efemérides volverá a situar a Vigo como epicentro de la industria naval internacional. El director de Navalia, Javier Arnau, ha destacado el momento positivo que atraviesa tanto la feria como el sector, subrayando el crecimiento registrado en esta edición. Navalia contará en 2026 con 602 expositores, frente a los 533 de la edición anterior, lo que supone un incremento cercano al 13%, ocupando la totalidad del espacio expositivo disponible en los cuatro pabellones del recinto. Otra parte del Ifevi está ocupada por los catres para militares por el día de las Fuerzas Armadas. Este crecimiento se refleja también en la dimensión tecnológica y comercial que pasará de algo más de 1.000 marcas representadas en 2024 a 1.200 en esta edición, consolidando su capacidad para generar oportunidades de negocio y atraer innovación. Arnau ha puesto además el acento en el carácter global de la feria, con un aumento significativo de la presencia internacional, especialmente de Asia, y la incorporación de nuevos países como Bulgaria, Chile, Egipto, Hong Kong o Irlanda. Durante su intervención, Arnau ha señalado que «no se trata solo de un crecimiento en cifras, sino de posicionamiento», destacando que la feria se ha consolidado como una herramienta al servicio del sector, capaz de atraer inversión, abrir mercados y marcar tendencias y ya es la primer feria del naval de España. El director de la feria confía en que se resuelva la huelga del metal y no afecte a Navalia. El presidente del evento, José García Costas, ha subrayado que Navalia es «el resultado de dos décadas de trabajo colectivo y continuado al servicio de la industria naval». García Costas ha incidido en que el crecimiento de la feria ha sido «sostenido, equilibrado y alineado con la realidad industrial», lo que ha permitido consolidar su posición como una de las ferias navales más relevantes de Europa. Asimismo, ha apuntado a la necesidad de seguir avanzando en ámbitos estratégicos como la transición energética, la digitalización o la defensa, «en un contexto que exige una mayor colaboración público-privada y apoyo a la industria». Superyates Entre las novedades de esta edición, está un nuevo espacio dedicado al segmento de la náutica, liderado por el Clúster Náutico Rías Baixas. Este espacio contará con más de 450 metros cuadrados de exposición, donde se presentarán soluciones de equipamiento específico y varias embarcaciones recreativas, ampliando así el alcance de la feria hacia un sector con creciente peso económico e industrial. «Está dirigido a los nuevos grandes yates que se están construyendo». También destaca la ampliación de la Zona de Innovación impulsada por el Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Vigo. Este espacio duplicará su superficie con respecto a 2024 hasta alcanzar los 400 metros cuadrados, reforzando su apuesta por el talento, el emprendimiento, las startups y las nuevas tecnologías. Por otro lado, Navalia volverá a apostar por el conocimiento con un programa de más de 30 jornadas técnicas, en las que se abordarán los principales retos del sector. Entre ellos destacan la defensa, la descarbonización del transporte marítimo, la transición energética, la digitalización mediante inteligencia artificial, así como el desarrollo de soluciones en seguridad, eficiencia energética y sostenibilidad. En el comité, Almudena López del Pozo, consejera delegada de Pymar, constituida por los pequeños y medianos astilleros privados, que da impulso y financiación al sector naval, ha reflexionado sobre las claves de la transformación que ha experimentado el sector naval español en los últimos años, entre las que ha destacado: la apuesta por la innovación de los astilleros privados españoles, la gestión eficiente de los instrumentos de financiación y el esfuerzo concertado entre agentes públicos y privados, aspectos que explican el magnífico momento que está viviendo la construcción naval española. «Bruselas ha cambiado y apoya los instrumentos de ayuda la naval como el tax lease». La consejera delegada ha incidido en la importancia del reconocimiento estratégico a nivel europeo de las industrias naval y marítima que se ha materializado en la aprobación por parte de la Comisión Europea de la Estrategia Marítima Europea. Considera que España está en condiciones de consolidar y reforzar su liderazgo europeo en las tipologías de buques más relevantes para la autonomía estratégica y subraya que «los astilleros españoles estamos preparados para afrontar estos retos». «Tenemos las capacidades, la experiencia y el talento humano. Tenemos un modelo de colaboración público-privada que funciona. Y tenemos un sector que ha demostrado, una y otra vez, su capacidad de adaptación y de superación». Pymar ha respaldo con garantías de 4.900 millones la construcción de 832 buques que valen 14.832 millones de euros Refiriéndose a la capacidad exportadora del sector, López del Pozo ha finalizado su intervención con las siguientes palabras: «Estoy convencida de que la décima edición de Navalia será el reflejo de cómo, desde las gradas de Galicia y desde España, estamos construyendo para Europa y para el mundo».

Il 7 e 8 maggio, nella cornice dell’Excelsior Palace Hotel di Rapallo, si svolgerà la terza edizione del Forum Nazionale sull’Energia, intitolata “Transizione al bivio”, organizzato da TN Events & Media, in collaborazione con la testata specializzata Quotidiano Energia. L'evento sarà trasmesso da Telenord (canale 11 del digitale terrestre ligure) e in streaming da telenord.it. Due giornate di confronto tra istituzioni, imprese e mondo della ricerca per analizzare le sfide più urgenti del sistema energetico italiano ed europeo, tra sicurezza, sostenibilità e competitività. "Il tema che abbiamo scelto quest’anno è volutamente forte: “Transizione al bivio” - spiega Massimiliano Monti, editore di Telenord - perché oggi siamo davvero in una fase decisiva. La transizione energetica non è più soltanto un obiettivo strategico o una prospettiva futura: è una realtà che incide sulle imprese, sulle famiglie, sulla competitività industriale, sulla sicurezza geopolitica e sulla qualità della vita dei cittadini. Per questo abbiamo voluto costruire un programma che mettesse insieme istituzioni, aziende, mondo scientifico, operatori industriali e stakeholder di primo piano, con l’obiettivo non solo di analizzare i problemi, ma soprattutto di individuare soluzioni concrete. Come editore, credo profondamente che il ruolo dell’informazione sia anche quello di creare connessioni, favorire il confronto e contribuire alla costruzione di una visione condivisa sui grandi temi strategici del Paese". Interventi istituzionali I lavori si apriranno nel pomeriggio di giovedì 7 maggio con i saluti introduttivi di Massimiliano Monti, Editore Telenord, seguiti dall'intervento istituzionale dell'Assessore Ambiente ed Energia Regione Liguria Paolo Ripamonti e del COO Industrial Transformation Eni Giuseppe Ricci (principale partner del Forum) mentre la moderazione sarà affidata a Roberto Rasia. La svolta energetica tra ambizioni e realtà La prima sessione entrerà nel vivo con la moderazione di Romina Maurizi, Direttrice Quotidiano Energia, e gli interventi di Nicola Dell’Acqua, Presidente Arera, e Alfredo Maria Becchetti, Presidente GSE, offrendo una visione regolatoria e operativa. A seguire, il confronto si articolerà in tre panel chiave: Geopolitica dell’energia: con Costantino Amadei , Presidente Gruppo Gnl Federchimica-Assogasliquidi; Fabrizio Fabbri , CEO Ansaldo Energia; Pier Lorenzo Dell’Orco , Amministratore Delegato Italgas Reti e Presidente Proxigas; Alessandro Cecchi , Direttore Affari Regolatori Iren e Presidente AIRU; Ivanhoe Romin , General Manager Axpo Italia; Sonia Sandei , Special Advisor Assoclima; Leonardo Brunori , Energy Executive Vice President RINA. , Presidente Gruppo Gnl Federchimica-Assogasliquidi; , CEO Ansaldo Energia; , Amministratore Delegato Italgas Reti e Presidente Proxigas; , Direttore Affari Regolatori Iren e Presidente AIRU; , General Manager Axpo Italia; , Special Advisor Assoclima; , Energy Executive Vice President RINA. Crescita della domanda e rinnovabili: con Luca Bragoli , Chief Regulatory & Public Affairs Officer Erg; Antonello Giunta , Amministratore Delegato FS Energy; Enrico Erulo , Direttore Corporate Affairs Tirreno Power; Alessandro Migliorini , Head of Public Affair Italy European Energy; Riccardo Bani , Amministratore Delegato Veos; Paolo Picco , Presidente Federidroelettrica. , Chief Regulatory & Public Affairs Officer Erg; , Amministratore Delegato FS Energy; , Direttore Corporate Affairs Tirreno Power; , Head of Public Affair Italy European Energy; , Amministratore Delegato Veos; , Presidente Federidroelettrica. Stoccaggio e accumulo: con Stefania Timperi, Head of Market Intelligence and Opportunity Identification Eni; Sabina Pinto, Amministratore Delegato e Direttore Generale Redelfi; Alberto Longhi, Head of Eng & TA Fichtner Italia. Il case history sarà presentato da Alessandro Venanzini, V.P. Sales Danieli Centro Combustioni. Il ritorno del nucleare nel dibattito energetico La seconda sessione, moderata da Roberto Rasia, sarà dedicata al nucleare con due panel: Sicurezza energetica e Net Zero: Luca Mastrantonio , Amministratore Delegato Nuclitalia; Daniela Gentile , Amministratore Delegato Ansaldo Nucleare; Massimo Debenedetti , Amministratore Delegato Cetena; Franco Cotana , Amministratore Delegato RSE; Viviana Cruciani , Assistente AD e Coordinatrice programmi decommissioning Sogin. , Amministratore Delegato Nuclitalia; , Amministratore Delegato Ansaldo Nucleare; , Amministratore Delegato Cetena; , Amministratore Delegato RSE; , Assistente AD e Coordinatrice programmi decommissioning Sogin. Competenze e politiche industriali: Tommaso Botto, Manager Divisione Industry and Energy ASG Superconductors; Giacomo Grasso, Responsabile Laboratorio progettazione e analisi sistemi nucleari Enea; Edoardo Fiorentini, Head of Magnetic Fusion Initiatives Development Eni. Digitalizzazione, sicurezza e capitale umano: le sfide del futuro La seconda giornata sarà dedicata a transizione, sicurezza e digitalizzazione. Oltre l’Hardware: la “transizione gemella”, la digitalizzazione come acceleratore della transizione energetica La sessione sarà moderata da Paola Girdinio, Presidente Start 4.0 e Professore ordinario Università di Genova, e introdotta da Carlo Cavazzoni, Head of Hypercomputing Continuum Leonardo. Nel panel sull’intelligenza artificiale interverranno Mirko Junior Mariani, Managing Director TXT Industrial; Giorgio Allasia, Chief Operations Officer Engineering & Technology Transfer Gruppo FOS; Marta Bray, Studio Legale B-Right Lawyers; Mattia Zara, Head of Sales and Marketing Veos AI; Giovanni Ponti, Responsabile Divisione Sistemi Informatica e ICT Enea. Il case history sarà presentato da Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO MyWAI. Seguirà il panel sulla cybersecurity con Ivan Monti, CISO Ansaldo Energia; Francesco Maria Gavotti, Studio Legale B-Right Lawyers; Roberto Caviglia, Chief Business Unit YCyber Gruppo HWG Sababa; Alessandro Manfredini, Direttore Group Security e Cyber Defence A2A. Underwater: la nuova frontiera della sicurezza energetica La sessione underwater vedrà la partecipazione di Giulio Marino Cappelletti, Direttore Struttura Operativa Polo Nazionale Dimensione Subacquea; Andrea Cornetti, Presidente Unitirreno; Gabriel Maria Cafaro, Head of Underwater Hub Fincantieri; Stefano Meggio, Head of Sonsub-Defense Saipem, con moderazione di Roberto Rasia. Decarbonizzazione: lo shipping tra strategie La sessione sullo shipping, organizzata in collaborazione con il Propeller club Port of Genoa, includerà Lorenzo Pollicardo, Technical & Environmental Director SYBAss; Simone Bruckner, Chief R&D Officer Sanlorenzo S.p.A; Emanuela Franchini, Head of New Fuels F.lli Cosulich; Andrea Cogliolo, Senior Director Marine Excellence Centers RINA; Nicole Colla, Originator Axpo Italia. L’insight sarà affidato a Paolo Cuomo, Market Intelligence and Opportunity Identification ENI. Il fattore umano della transizione energetica e la sfida dello "skill gap" L’ultima sessione, moderata dal direttore di Telenord, Maurizio Michieli, sarà dedicata al capitale umano con Andrea Delucchi, Responsabile Area Sostenibilità e Innovazione Tecnologica Confindustria Genova; Marco Fossa, Professore DIME Università di Genova; Elisabetta Arato, Presidente Ticass. Per restare sempre aggiornati sulle principali notizie sulla Liguria seguiteci sul canale Telenord, su Whatsapp, su Instagram, su Youtube e su Facebook.

MANAUS, Brazil, May 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brazil Potash Corp. (“Brazil Potash” or the “Company”) (NYSE-American: GRO), a mineral exploration and development company advancing the Autazes potash project in Amazonas State, Brazil (the “Autazes Project”), is pleased to announce the award of a Front-End Engineering Design (“FEED”) contract for the processing plant, tailings facility, river barge port, and the upgrade of approximately 13 km of road connecting the plant to port, to a consortium of Wood and Promon Engenharia (“Promon”). “Wood’s track record in potash and large-scale fertilizer infrastructure, combined with Promon’s extensive knowledge of how to build in Brazil, gives us exactly the right consortium to deliver the surface FEED our lenders and partners need to see” said Raphael Bloise, Project Director Brazil Potash. Wood and Promon were selected for their complementary and directly applicable experience, global potash and fertilizer engineering leadership paired with deep, on-the-ground Brazilian execution capability. Surface Infrastructure and the Path to Financing The completion of FEED studies is a critical milestone for securing construction debt financing, which is currently being advanced through active dialogue with Development Finance Institutions and Export Credit Agencies. It converts early assumptions into independently verifiable, investment-grade outputs— providing CAPEX and OPEX accuracy, risk quantification, constructability analysis, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) documentation that lenders require before committing capital. This FEED also ensures alignment across all interdependent surface systems, processing throughput, water balance, power demand, tailings capacity, and port logistics, under a single, coherent engineering framework. Wood: Potash and Fertilizer Engineering at Global Scale Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. Their portfolio of relevant project experience includes serving as engineering contractor for K+S’s Bethune potash mine in Canada, one of the most significant fertilizer developments of the past decade, and multiple Canadian and international potash project expansions exceeding 8 million annual tonnes of production. Wood brings proven capability across the full spectrum of surface infrastructure required at Autazes. Promon Engenharia: Brazilian Engineering and Construction Expertise Promon Engenharia is one of Brazil’s most established engineering and project management companies, with more than six decades of experience executing complex industrial and mining projects across the country, including involvement in some of Brazil’s largest fertilizer developments. With a client base that includes Brazilian and international mining operators, and a strong track record in Northern Brazil, Promon Engenharia brings Brazilian-domiciled engineering and EPCM capabilities that are essential for project execution in Amazonas State. Promon Engenharia’s contribution to the consortium includes ensuring full compliance with Brazilian engineering standards and construction regulations, integrating with local supply chains and labor markets, and producing designs compatible with Brazilian environmental licensing, permitting processes, and logistical realities, helping reduce execution risk and supporting the delivery of value-creating solutions for clients. Annual Report Filing Brazil Potash confirms that it has filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The annual report, including the Company's complete audited financial statements, is available on the Company's website atwww.brazilpotash.comand on the SEC's website atwww.sec.gov. Shareholders may request a hard copy of the Company's complete audited financial statements free of charge by contacting Brazil Potash Investor Relations atinfo@brazilpotash.com. About Brazil Potash Brazil Potash (NYSE-American: GRO) (www.brazilpotash.com) is developing the Autazes Project to supply sustainable fertilizers to one of the world’s largest agricultural exporters. Brazil is critical for global food security as the country has amongst the highest amounts of fresh water, arable land, and an ideal climate for year-round crop growth, but it is vulnerable as it imported over 95% of its potash fertilizer in 2021, despite having what is anticipated to be one of the world’s largest undeveloped potash basins in its own backyard. The potash produced will be transported primarily using low-cost river barges on an inland river system in partnership with Amaggi (www.amaggi.com.br), one of Brazil’s largest farmers and logistical operators of agricultural products. With an initial planned annual potash production of up to 2.4 million tons per year, Brazil Potash’s management believes it could potentially supply approximately 20% of the current potash demand in Brazil. Management anticipates 100% of Brazil Potash’s production will be sold domestically to reduce Brazil’s reliance on potash imports while concurrently mitigating approximately 1.4 million tons per year of GHG emissions. Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are statements that are not historical facts. Words such as “expects”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”, “will”, “estimates”, “plans”, “may” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the anticipated benefits of the Autazes Project to Brazil’s agricultural sector, expected production volumes, the Company’s potential engagement with development finance institutions and export credit agencies, the expected benefits and timeline of the FEED study, the anticipated capabilities of the Wood and Promon consortium, estimated greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and the status of the Company’s project, government regulation and environmental regulation, are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1, as amended, for the IPO filed with the SEC, the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC and the supplemented PREP prospectus filed in each of the provinces and territories of Canada, other than Québec. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any of these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The Company expressly disclaims any obligations or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in the Company’s expectations with respect thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any statement is based, unless required by law. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of the Company. Contact: Brazil Potash Investor Relations info@brazilpotash.com

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England-based energy transition-focused player EnergyPathways is awaiting the award of a gas storage license (GSL) from the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in connection with the firm’s flagship energy storage project off the Cumbria coast in the East Irish Sea. EnergyPathways has revealed that its wholly owned subsidiary, EnergyPathways Irish Sea, is to be awarded a gas storage license by the North Sea Transition Authority related to itsMarram Energy Storage Hub (MESH) project. The company claims that this decision marks a major milestone for its plans to develop the wider MESH project in the East Irish Sea and onshore in Barrow-in-Furness. This project is expected to be Britain’s largest integrated energy storage facility. The firm explains that the GSL to be awarded spans a substantial offshore area that could support the construction of up to 60 large-scale salt storage caverns with potential for multi-terawatt-hour scale energy storage, subject to the necessary consents and financing. Ben Clube, CEO of EnergyPathways, commented:“I am delighted that we have met the NSTA’s criteria to offer EnergyPathways this crucial gas storage licence, one of only a handful of energy licence awards in the last two years. The current Middle East crisis serves as a stark reminder of Britain’s limited energy storage capacity that leaves it vulnerable to global supply shocks and the resulting impact of higher energy bills. “The UK government recognises MESH and other forms of long duration energy storage as having a vital role in lowering energy prices, bolstering energy security and achieving a clean energy system.” With this license in hand, EnergyPathways will accelerate the development of its large-scale gas storage facility to complement the company’s ongoing large-scale CAES long-duration energy storage development for which the launch of thefront-end engineering and design (FEED)scope was announced last week. This content is available after accepting the cookies. EnergyPathways launches offshore wind-linked compressed air energy storage project The planned MESH project, which has already been designated by the UK government as a project of ‘national significance,’ will comprise compressed air energy storage (CAES), natural gas storage transitioning to hydrogen storage, and complementary hydrogen production for clean power and sustainable industry uses. EnergyPathways plans a natural gas storage facility that will double Britain’s meagre gas storage capacity and provide up to six days of national energy supply, securing the UK’s energy future and reducing its over-dependence on expensive gas imports. The facility is anticipated to provide high deliverability rates of around 15 million cubic meters per day for rapid grid backup supply. The company’s CAES storage of 300 MW/55 GWh capacity is expected to be Britain’s largest LDES facility. The company underlines that the low-carbon dispatchable power generation will be far cheaper than the expensive gas-fired power upon which Britain relies and which sets the power prices for all of the UK’s electricity, including renewables. The low-cost hydrogen production capability will be used to further decarbonize MESH dispatchable power and new sustainable industries planned in Barrow-in-Furness, including the proposed graphite production plant. EnergyPathways, along with its Tier One partnership group, including Siemens Energy, Costain, Wood, and Zenith Energy, will now progress the MESH project to a final investment decision (FID) in 2028 and start-up by late 2031. The firm has already initiated several funding and capacity offtake discussions. Clube outlined:“With the award of this licence EnergyPathways will now move at pace to get to FID as quickly as possible. Both the gas storage and CAES storage will each be commercially viable in their own right, however there are several synergies and cost efficiencies between the two projects that can now be secured. “I look forward to working closely with our team and our partners in the months ahead and will continue to update shareholders as milestones are achieved.” Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

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LONDRA – Il gas naturale liquefatto (LNG) continua a consolidare il proprio ruolo nel percorso di decarbonizzazione del trasporto marittimo. È quanto emerge dall’ultima edizione del report “Fuel for Thought: LNG” pubblicato da Lloyd’s Register, che fornisce un’analisi aggiornata e basata sui dati dell’evoluzione di questo combustibile nella transizione energetica del settore. Secondo il rapporto, a Marzo 2026 la flotta dual-fuel alimentata a LNG ha raggiunto 1.665 unità, con ulteriori 982 navi in portafoglio ordini. Nonostante le incertezze che hanno rallentato alcuni investimenti nei carburanti alternativi, il LNG si conferma il principale fuel alternativo presente negli orderbook globali. La crescita è particolarmente marcata nel segmento container, destinato a più che raddoppiare la propria capacità LNG nei prossimi anni. Anche i comparti crocieristico, tanker e PCC/RoRo stanno accelerando l’adozione di questa tecnologia. Competitività economica fino al 2050 Le simulazioni economiche condotte da Lloyd’s Register indicano che il LNG resta, allo stato attuale, il percorso più conveniente per la compliance normativa fino al 2050, indipendentemente dagli scenari regolatori considerati. Un ulteriore vantaggio competitivo potrebbe derivare dal blending con bio-LNG ed e-LNG, che consentirebbe alle navi di generare surplus di conformità già nelle fasi iniziali dei nuovi regimi normativi. Methane slip: progressi significativi ma non ancora riconosciuti Uno degli aspetti più rilevanti del report riguarda la riduzione del methane slip, ovvero le emissioni di metano non combusto. I motori due tempi ad alta pressione raggiungono oggi livelli di appena 0,2 g/kWh, mentre i motori a bassa pressione con ricircolo dei gas di scarico registrano riduzioni superiori al 60%. Tuttavia, questi miglioramenti tecnologici non sono ancora pienamente recepiti nei fattori emissivi previsti da normative come il FuelEU Maritime e le linee guida LCA dell’International Maritime Organization. Il report sottolinea la necessità di aggiornare tali parametri per riflettere i progressi reali ed evitare di penalizzare gli operatori che hanno investito in anticipo. Filiera e certificazione: il nodo delle emissioni upstream. Sicurezza: focus sul drydocking Un altro punto critico riguarda le emissioni lungo la catena di approvvigionamento. Produzione più pulita, riduzione delle perdite di metano e sviluppo di sistemi di certificazione indipendenti saranno determinanti per valorizzare appieno il potenziale del LNG in termini di riduzione delle emissioni complessive. Il report affronta anche gli aspetti operativi legati alle navi LNG durante le fasi di drydocking, fornendo raccomandazioni su pianificazione, esecuzione e sicurezza, elementi sempre più rilevanti con l’aumento della flotta gas-fuelled. LNG: da fuel ponte a scelta strategica Secondo Constantinos Chaelis, Global Gas Segment Director di Lloyd’s Register, il LNG rappresenta una soluzione immediatamente disponibile, scalabile e già consolidata, in linea sia con le esigenze operative sia con i requisiti normativi emergenti. Sulla stessa linea Panos Mitrou, SVP Shipping Strategy, evidenzia come l’interesse crescente verso il LNG non sia più soltanto una fase di transizione verso altri carburanti, ma una risposta strategica al progressivo irrigidimento delle normative globali e regionali. La sfida, conclude il report, sarà ora concentrare gli sforzi su riduzione delle emissioni di metano, sviluppo di varianti più pulite e miglioramento dell’impronta GHG lungo l’intera catena del valore. In sintesi, il LNG si conferma non solo un “fuel ponte”, ma un pilastro strutturale della transizione energetica marittima, almeno nel medio periodo, grazie a maturità tecnologica, infrastrutture in espansione e competitività economica.

Environmental engineer Ludmilla Aristilde (right) and her colleagues work on developing biotechnology-led solutions to combat pollution.Credit: Benjamin Barrios-Cerda/Aristilde lab Ludmilla Aristilde has always been aware of how closely tied well-being is to the world around us. Raised in Haiti, she and her family survived two cholera outbreaks stemming from contaminated water. “These were my earliest experiences of realizing that environmental pollution and human health are linked,” she says. “I was really young at the time, but I understood this was a serious thing.” At 12 years old, she learnt that some environmental damage could be undone. On a school trip to the deforested mountains above Port-au-Prince, Aristilde and her classmates were taught about the impacts of erosion, and they helped to plant around 1,000 saplings in the bare earth overlooking the capital. “It showed us we can do something to reverse the environmental consequences of our actions,” Aristilde says. Nature Spotlight: Synthetic biology Nature Spotlight: Synthetic biology Now an environmental engineer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Aristilde has dedicated her career to working out ways to mitigate environmental harm. She is part of a growing community of synthetic biologists using biotechnology-led solutions to tackle pollution ranging from microplastics and industrial waste to soils laced with heavy metals or explosive residues. Scientists are doing this mainly with the help of microorganisms containing DNA that the researchers have tailored for a specific function. These engineered microbes not only offer hope for cleaning up the environment, but can also be used in circular industries — ones in which materials are kept in use for as long as possible instead of being discarded — to repurpose pollutants or recover resources from waste streams. “Things are now feasible that were considered impossible a decade ago,” says Michael Köpke, a synthetic biologist and chief innovation officer at LanzaTech, a company headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, that transforms industrial waste and emissions into useful materials. “These technologies can help us as a society move towards a circular model, in which we use as much waste as possible for production of fuels, chemicals and materials.” Although synthetic biology offers a potential solution for tackling some of the many pollutants that plague the planet, researchers say that the field is being held back from reaching its true potential by concerns around releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment, and a lack of government funding and incentives. Should these challenges be overcome, however, many specialists think that modified microbes could be key partners for helping humanity to clean up some of the mess it has made of Earth’s water, air and soil. The idea of tinkering with microbes to address environmental problems is not new, says Víctor de Lorenzo, a molecular environmental microbiologist at the National Biotechnology Centre in Madrid. “In the late 1980s, there was this big hype about using engineered bacteria to address pollution, oil spills, you name it.” However, technological roadblocks and societal pushbacks against the use of genetically modified organisms — mostly because of fears around their effects on health and the environment — caused early efforts to stall, says de Lorenzo. “Little by little, people interested in this field moved into other, more promising areas,” he adds. “The field came to a kind of standstill.” In the early 2000s, advances in genetics and a growing awareness of the impacts of climate change and pollution sparked renewed interest in the use of microbes for bioremediation (cleaning polluted environments) and biomanufacturing (making useful products out of would-be pollutants). In the past decade, a “confluence of new techniques and approaches” has opened up many more possibilities for creating engineered microbes, says Hal Alper, a chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin. New synthetic-biology tools, he adds, have also made it possible to venture beyondEscherichia coliand the ‘baker’s yeast’Saccharomyces cerevisiae— the microbial workhorses of the laboratory and the original subjects of synthetic biology — to organisms better suited to specific environments and metabolic tasks. Environmental microbiologists Victor de Lorenzo (left) and David Rodriguez engineer bacteria to degrade toxic pollutants left behind by explosives.Credit: Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia Synthetic biologists do not usually reinvent the wheel. Instead, they look in nature for microbes that are already capable of degrading or utilizing certain contaminants or complex carbon-rich waste products. “Some bacteria, through natural evolution, learn how to eat these compounds,” de Lorenzo says. Researchers study these naturally occurring organisms to understand the biochemistry underpinning their metabolism of waste, then use that knowledge to create organisms that do the job even better. “We want things to happen faster, more efficiently and at a larger scale than the bacteria do just for their own survival,” Aristilde says. “This is where synthetic biology steps in.” Using tools such as high-resolution mass spectrometry, which identifies chemicals by measuring their molecular weight, Aristilde and other researchers can track the fate of specially labelled molecules when microbes consume and digest them. They study the enzymatic processes of those molecular meals, and where the bottlenecks occur. This gives them clues about how natural processes might be improved in the lab or be repurposed for new functionality, an approach called rational engineering. Scientists can insert genes from one type of bacteria into another to give a species a desired set of traits, or they can synthesize genes or even entire bacterial genomes that are essential for a specific application, Köpke says. Technologies are still far from being able to produce perfectly optimized microbes, but artificial intelligence is accelerating progress towards that goal. Hongzhi Tang, a synthetic biologist and environmental microbiologist at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, says that researchers have not yet identified microbial genes or enzymes to degrade all pollutants. However, he adds, “AI will be very good for enzyme design, so I think we can solve this soon.” Scientists are now working on establishing bioremediation techniques to tackle a range of challenges, including the treatment of waste water generated in food-manufacturing processes, and repurposing industrial waste gas. Köpke and his colleagues, for example, have spent the past 20 years developing carbon-eating microbes that transform carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide emitted from steel mills, oil refineries and agricultural waste into ethanol — which is then converted into aviation fuel and other useful materials. LanzaTech’s technology is now deployed at six commercial plants around the world, Köpke says, producing about 300,000 tonnes of ethanol each year and avoiding roughly half a million tonnes of CO2emissions. Other groups are focused on cleaning up contaminants that have already made their way into the environment. De Lorenzo’s lab, for example, is engineering bacteria that degrade nitroaromatic compounds, which are common components of explosives. “They’re super toxic and their chemical structure is very weird,” he says. If left in the environment, they degrade slowly and incompletely, often turning into other toxic intermediates. Plants, animals and microbes that come into contact with them might develop acute toxic effects, leading to long-term problems with biodiversity, nutrient cycling and overall ecosystem functioning. Engineered solutions to get rid of them, de Lorenzo continues, “can make a qualitative difference”. In a study1published in April, he and his colleagues focused on degradation of 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT), a side product of trinitrotoluene (TNT) that is often found in soil around former ammunition factories and in places where TNT has been detonated. De Lorenzo and his colleagues took genes from a type of bacteria that naturally degrades DNT and transferred them intoPseudomonas putida— a species commonly used in biotechnology. Although the original organism could use DNT to an extent, it did not completely eliminate the compound and became highly stressed while trying to digest it, de Lorenzo says. He and his colleagues allowed the engineeredP. putidato evolve for nearly a year under conditions in which DNT was the only food source, which resulted in a unique bacterial strain with mutations that made it optimized for degrading DNT. Compared with the original strain, it degraded DNT “faster and without stress”, de Lorenzo says, and also completely removed the compound under experimental conditions. He hopes that microbes such as this will eventually ensure that vast tracts of land in Ukraine, the Middle East and elsewhere will not be laid waste by contamination. Bacteria were engineered to digest the pollutant DNT. The lighter coloured wells indicate more DNT degradation.Credit: Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia Plastic bioconversion, another innovative frontier, kicked off in 2016 when engineer Kazumi Hiraga at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan and his colleagues found thatIdeonella sakaiensis, a naturally occurring bacterium that they discovered on plastic waste near a recycling facility, had evolved enzymes that made it able to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET)2. The finding suggested that researchers could use this natural discovery as a starting point for engineering microbes to recycle or clean up plastic waste more efficiently. Some 16,000 substances are used in plastics, however, so organisms and enzymes that can break down one polymer will not necessarily work for another. Alper and his colleagues, for example, started by improving enzymes in bacteria that can digest PET, a relatively straightforward plastic to break down, before moving on to more complex ones. Alper says that the team has now achieved significant degradation of polyethylene and polypropylene — plastics that are harder than PET for microbes to metabolize because of the stability of their carbon bonds. For some labs, the eventual goal is to increase the efficiency of engineered microbes by giving them the ability to tackle several pollutants at once. Last year, Tang and his colleagues described a marine bacterium they created with genetically engineered clusters of genes. The strain had the ability to break down five hydrocarbons: biphenyl, phenol, naphthalene, dibenzofuran and toluene3. Tests they ran on industrial waste water, seawater and contaminated saline solutions confirmed that the organism converted the pollutants into several naturally occurring compounds that wild bacteria could metabolize. Since the paper’s publication, Tang and his colleagues have created at least 50 more synthetic gene clusters designed to degrade various toxicants. 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Australia is rich in minerals, metals, sun and wind. Iron ore, copper and critical minerals are all mined here and largely exported overseas to be turned into products such as steel, fertiliser, fuel and infrastructure. Mining and heavy industries create jobs and wealth. But their emissions are some of the hardest to cut. This is changing. Steel can now be made without coal. Hydrogen can be made using water and renewable power rather than from gas. The Australian governmentwants to creategreener export industries. It hasn’t been easy. Green hydrogen isproving difficultto finance and scale, while the development of green iron ismoving slowly. Interesthas grownin green fuels such as biodiesel during this year’s energy crisis, but progress remains slow. But hard doesn’t mean impossible. To make new exports competitive, policymakers should create green hubs close to renewables and where resources can be shared. To make enough green iron, green ammonia and green fuels to export, Australia will need large renewable energy zones, energy storage, hydrogen production, water supply and port infrastructure. Much of this already exists or is being scaled up. The problem is coordination. If every company builds its own separate systems for power, water and transport, costs rise and land use expands. It’s cheaper and more effective to plan regional hubs where industries can share infrastructure, use renewable energy more efficiently and reduce environmental impact. This isn’t new. Australia’s large, high-tech mining industry relies on hubs. Queensland’s port city ofGladstoneis a hub for coal and gas exports, aluminium smelting and chemical manufacturing. These heavy industries use shared infrastructure such as ports, roads and power. Countries such as China, Germany and the Netherlandsare usingthis hub method as they rapidly scale up green exports. The cost of green iron and steel depends not just on the technology used in furnaces, but on how well integrated the facility is. A waste stream from one plant can become an input for another. The intense heat produced by making green ammonia or clean fuels can be used for other processes such as preheating iron ore for ironmaking. Our modellingshows integrating renewables, hydrogen and green iron at a proposed hub in South Australia can cut power costs 20–30% compared to standalone projects by avoiding overbuilding of electricity infrastructure. More cheap renewable power is used, less gas is required and emissions fall more rapidly. Modelling of a separate hub in New South Wales showssimilar benefits. Future green hubs should be centred around a nature-positive philosophy, where industry and nature restoration sit side by side. Instead of approving projects one by one, planning happens across whole landscapes. Sensitive areas are protected from the start. Infrastructure is concentrated into shared corridors. Natural restoration is part of the plan. Australia has long been a major iron ore exporter, but makes little iron or steel here. If Australia moves rapidly, it could take more market share as buyers shift to clean options. German and Australian researchers areworkingto green the steelmaking process. One option is for Australia to make and export green iron as a precursor to steel. This would be a surprisingly effective climate measure.Studiessuggest Australia could singlehandedly reduce global emissions 4% if it turned its iron ore into green iron. Turning this vision into reality is not straightforward. Coordinated industrial hubs are difficult to deliver in Australia. Fragmented regulations across agencies slow progress. Environmental approvals are typically done project by project rather than at a system level. Government-business collaboration is limited. Business models focus on individual projects rather than collaboration. Where technical solutions exist, institutional and commercial barriers can slow progress. Here’s how to begin. First, policymakers should identify optimal hub locations able to co-host mining, processing, green fuel production and renewable energy. Second, plan the hubs at scale so environmental impacts can be managed and restoration work undertaken nearby. Third, give the hubs clear, measurable emissions and nature goals. Set targets for emissions reductions, renewable and hydrogen use, water recycling, and ecosystem restoration at a regional scale. Track them over time. Governments have a key role in setting the direction of travel. This means selecting hub locations, coordinating land use and infrastructure planning, aligning approvals to allow system-level assessments rather than individual and investing in shared infrastructure. They can also reduce risk by supporting early projects and broker agreements between companies. Long-term policy certainty will help unlock private investment. Industry must respond by collaborating. This includes sharing infrastructure where it makes sense, coordinating across value chains, designing projects around environmental outcomes and working with communities as genuine partners. Australia can punch well above its weight on green industry. If we succeed, our clean product exports will be a model for the future.

This 2021 Winnebago Era 170B is a class B motorhome that was built on a 2020 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 3500XD chassis. Features include a kitchenette, a wet bath, a sleeping platform, a refrigerator, a microwave, a toilet, storage cabinets, and a television. The van is finished in Iridium Silver and is powered by a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V6 that turns the dually rear wheels through a seven-speed automatic transmission. It rides on 16″ Alcoa aluminum wheels and is further equipped with roof-mounted solar panels, a retractable awning, a power generator, side steps, heated and swiveling front captain’s chairs, Distronic Adaptive cruise control, and MBUX infotainment with navigation. Acquired by the seller in 2025, this Winnebago Era has 26k miles and is now offered with manufacturer’s literature, front window covers, a clean Carfax report, and a clean Arizona title in the seller’s name. 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