Hoegh Borealis sets new emissions standards

Höegh Borealis was in Port these past few days and departed yesterday for Melbourne.

Hoegh Borealis, Fremantle 14 February 2025. Credit Jean Hudson

She was built in 2024, sails under the flag of Norway, and represents a new, environmentally friendly class of PCTC- pure car and truck carrier.

She is one of Hoegh Autoliners’ Aurora Class vessels and part of the company’s great leap towards its 2040 net-zero emissions goal. The Aurora class ships represent the future of the deep sea shipping industry.

Today, shipping accounts for around 3 percent of all global emissions. 90% of shipping emissions come from deep sea transportation. That is a big global problem that needs to be addressed in the here and now and vessels like Hoegh Borealis are part of the now.

And along with her green credentials, Hoegh Borealis can carry over 9,000 cars.

All Auroras class ships will have DNV’s ‘ammonia ready’ and ‘methanol ready’ notations. And will be the first in the PCTC segment to be able to operate on carbon-neutral ammonia.

The vessels will be cutting carbon emissions per car transported by up to 58 percent from the current industry average.

We look forward to seeing more of them in Fremantle.

* By Jean Hudson @jeansodyssey. Jean is our Shipping Correspondent and also a regular feature writer and photographer here on the Shipping News. You may also like to follow up her informative Places I Love stories, as well as other feature stories and Freo Today photographs, right here.

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