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A suspected hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius has reportedly killed three passengers and left other people ill, creating a complex public health emergency at sea.

A widely repeated claim that 70 percent of ferries on order used batteries does not hold up under closer scrutiny, but the corrected picture still points to a major shift in maritime transport.

A landmark DNV safety study commissioned by European maritime regulators concludes that hydrogen-fueled ships require extensive engineering redesign that will add substantially to vessel costs, complicating the fuel's decarbonization case.