Growing interest in hydrogen fuel cells has been demonstrated again with two new development deals announced this week.

Australia's Global Energy Ventures (GEV) has signed a cooperation agreement with Canada's Ballard Power Systems to develop a fuel cell for GEV's planned new C-H2 compressed hydrogen ship.

The companies said work will take place to power the C-H2 using compressed hydrogen from the vessel's storage tanks, providing a zero-emission marine transport supply chain.