Kawasaki Heavy scales back hydrogen ambitions

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has decided to abandon plans to extract hydrogen from Australian brown coal due to construction approval delays. Instead, the company will now focus on sourcing hydrogen domestically in Japan and will prioritize smaller carriers, scaling back from 160,000 cu m to 40,000 cu m. Kawasaki Heavy has been operating the world’s first liquified hydrogen carrier, the Suiso Frontier, since 2022, marking a significant milestone in the seaborne hydrogen trade.

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