The TrAM project and Medstraum is announced as a finalist in the 2023 European Sustainable Energy Awards. You can vote for TrAM using this link: EUSEW Awards: World’s first fully electric

In the latest Euronews Ocean documentary, the focus is set to clean ships and how electricity propels the shipping industry forward. Medstraum was, of course, featured as a key example.  

As new low and zero-emission technologies for passenger transport become available, a new question arises: How do we integrate them to urban mobility systems?   The TrAM project gathered leading experts

The TrAM project vessel Medstraum marks the start of a new era of emission-free sailing.

The world’s first battery-only high-speed craft, MS Medstraum has been awarded Ship of The Year. Ship builders Fjellstrand Verft and shipowners Kolumbus, a Norwegian public transport company, received the price at an official ceremony at SMM Hamburg on Tuesday 6th of September. 

The paper “Implementation of Zero Emission Fast Shortsea Shipping (Medstraum)” by Evangelos Boulougouris, Apostolos Papanikolaou, Mikal Dahle, Edmund Tolo, Yan Xing-Kaeding, Christoph Jürgenhake, Tobias Seidenberg, Carolina Sachs, Craig Brown, and Frode Jenset

MS Medstraum, the world’s first fully electric and zero-emission fast ferry, classed as a high-speed craft, has embarked on the journey from Fjellstrand shipyard to her new home port, Stavanger.

Presented as the world’s first zero-emission fast ferry, classed as a High-Speed Craft, MS Medstraum caused attention when the international maritime community finally gathered again.

Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA) has investigated hundreds of different hull forms to ensure that the TrAM project vessel will become as efficient as possible.

TrAM project reaches new important milestone as the wheelhouse and passenger module set sails from Leirvik yard to Fjellstrand yard. TrAM project partner Leirvik started to work on the wheelhouse

The new and green propulsion system developed for the TRAM project will also reduce the weight on the high-speed vessel Medstraum.

Partners in the TrAM (Transport – Advanced and Modular) project are excited to announce that construction has commenced on the world’s first fully electric passenger fast ferry at the Fjellstrand shipyard on the west coast of Norway.

The TrAM demonstrator vessel will sail under the name Medstraum.

In the development of a zero emission fast going passenger vessel, the TrAM project will utilize valuable contributions from Leirvik – a company with long experience within the delivery of large aluminum modules.

TrAM partners are now half-way into the project. The work on the Stavanger zero-emission fast ferry is progressing well, and construction will start in spring 2021.

The mobility company Kolumbus and the ship builder Fjellstrand have signed a contract for the delivery of the world’s first fully electrical fast ferry. The project is a key part of Kolumbus’ work to reduce emissions from passenger transport.

In the TrAM H2020 project Thames Clippers is looking into electric operation to consider how to become greener and more operationally efficient in the future.

Presentations and a recording from the TrAM project’s webinar on “Ensuring efficiency and safety in electric vessels” are now available.

“Trying to change the industry’s perception of modular and more standardized vessels has been the biggest challenge,” say modular experts Tobias Seidenberg and Christoph Jürgenhake Fraunhofer IEM.

The new hull form of the Stavanger demonstrator showed improved hydrodynamic performance and reduced power requirements.

The TrAM H2020 project invites you to a public webinar where maritime industry actors share knowledge and experiences from European innovation projects related to electric vessels.

A new newsletter for the TrAM project is now published. Here you can read about recent developments and activities in the project. You can sign up for regular updates through

The building of the world´s first fully electric fast ferry is progressing well. In December the TrAM project completed the hull tests of the vessel in Hamburg.

Through modular design and production methods the TrAM project aims to make European yards more competitive.

New design renders now give the public a clearer view of how the demonstrator vessel in the TrAM project will look like. The vessel will be the world’s first fully

Fjellstrand shipyard wants to put aside the rule book on shipbuilding and look at the whole process in a new way. Anyone involved in ship design and shipbuilding knows that

In the TrAM project ship operators in Norway, UK and Belgium come together to solve a common goal; to create lower priced environmentally friendly ships. This challenge to create solutions

The EU project TrAM was officially kicked off in September 2018. It marked the start of a journey towards the world´s first zero emission fast ferry, built through modular production

Rogaland County Municipality and NCE Maritime CleanTech has been awarded 11.7 Million Euros to develop an electric high-speed passenger vessel to operate between Stavanger and Hommersåk on the west coast