Norwegian battery-powered ferry leader Norled is pushing ahead with a project to run what it claims is the first blue-water liquid hydrogen-electric hybrid ferry next year.

Norled project manager Ivan Ostvik told the Ship Zero Conference in Glasgow that the 300-passenger, 80-car Hydra ferry will go into service next year, operating with fuel cells with a power capacity of 400 kilowatts, run off four tonnes of liquid hydrogen.