Safe and Efficient Use of Sustainable Fuels in Maritime Transport 
Application

SAFeCRAFT is an ambitious 48-month project that focuses on maritime transport applications, aiming to be a lighthouse project in the forefront of retrofit and new designs of seagoing vessels ensuring the safety and viability of SAFs.

urope’s waterborne transport is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for approximately 13% of overall transport emissions. Thus, meeting ambitious climate targets is imperative and requires accelerating the transition to sustainable, climate-neutral fuels in this sector. However, the adoption of sustainable alternative fuels (SAFs) is often slow due to concerns around safety, global availability, technological maturity, and economic viability. SAFeCRAFT seeks to address these challenges by leveraging the ZEWT Partnership’s existing network of stakeholders and infrastructure to develop, validate, and demonstrate SAFs on board oceangoing vessels.

With the central participation of SEANERGY, a leading NASDAQ listed shipping company, and a multi-disciplinary experienced consortium led by HYDRUS, SAFeCRAFT will proceed to implement SAFs in full transnational operations on a 180,000 DWT Capesize Bulk Carrier. This includes fuel distribution, bunkering, storage, handling and supply, power conversion, and possible residue handling, with a minimum power output of 1.5MW. Use of H₂ (stored in gaseous or liquid form) will be physically demonstrated onboard in actual operating conditions.

SAFeCRAFT is an ambitious 48-month project that focuses on maritime transport applications, aiming to be a lighthouse project in the forefront of retrofit and new designs of seagoing vessels ensuring the safety and viability of SAFs.

In addition, SAFeCRAFT demonstrates alternative SAFs technologies in application scenarios in four different types of oceangoing and short sea shipping vessels in newbuilding and retrofit cases. These scenarios will be assessed and validated through detailed desktop simulation studies. The investigated technologies include direct handling, storage, and use of H₂, for main propulsion purposes, in either liquid (LH₂) or gaseous (CGH₂) form as well as use of two hydrogen carriers, namely Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs) and ammonia (NH₃).
SAFeCRAFT addresses significant safety and operating challenges, going beyond the state-of-the-art while achieving FuelEU Maritime 2040 targets.

SAFeCRAFT will proceed to implement SAFs in full transnational operations on a 180,000 DWT Capesize Bulk Carrier