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Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £121 million across the three strands of this competition for innovative clean maritime technologies. This funding is from the Department for Transport (DfT).

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In Short

Project Duration Project Duration

Feasibility studies: ~12 months Pre-deployment: ~12 months Deployment trials: ~2 years and 9 months

Funding Available Funding Available

Feasibility studies: £100,000 and £1 million Pre-deployment: £750,000 and £6 million Deployment trials: £3 million and £15 million

Application Deadline Application Deadline

Wednesday 15 July 2026

Themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

  • fishing vessels and inland waterways vessels
  • projects that combine the below Vessel or Infrastructure technology themes with Smart Shipping technology themes
  • zero and near zero GHG emission fuel systems, such as ammonia or hydrogen
  • retrofitting clean maritime technology to existing vessels

 

The priority themes are of particular interest in this competition but we also welcome applications that address any of the following themes.

  • vessel propulsion and auxiliary engines, for example: batteries, fuel cells, and internal combustion engines using low, zero or near zero greenhouse gas emission fuels such as hydrogen, methanol, ammonia or multi-fuel combinations
  • wind propulsion, including soft-sail, fixed-sail, rotor, kite and turbine technologies, targeting a range of ship types from small vessels to large cargo carriers, both as primary and auxiliary propulsion
  • low, zero or near zero greenhouse gas emission energy storage and management
  • physical connections to shoreside power or alternative fuel bunkering, including fuelling lines, battery storage and on or near site renewable energy generation
  • enabling technologies such as motors, drives, sensor and power electronics
  • technologies for addressing air pollution and other contaminant risks from vessels using low, zero or near zero greenhouse gas emission alternative fuels, covering both novel air pollution risks such as from ammonia (NH3) slip and adverse impacts on conventional air pollutant emissions such as particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx)
  • technologies for addressing nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions from vessels using low, zero or near zero greenhouse gas emission alternative fuels
  • type approval of novel on-vessel equipment
  • onboard carbon capture and storage (OCCS)
  • energy efficiency technologies, including those that enhance the vessel range or lower alternative fuel usage to enable the fuel’s viability

  • shoreside storage and bunkering of low, zero or near zero greenhouse gas emission fuel
  • charging infrastructure and management for electric vessels
  • novel shore power solutions, such as enabling docked vessels to turn off their conventional power supply for ancillary systems
  • physical connections to shoreside power or alternative fuel bunkering, including fuelling lines, battery storage and onsite renewables
  • shoreside renewable energy generation at the port to supply vessels
  • low, zero or near zero greenhouse gas emission fuel production at ports to supply vessels, such as hydrogen, methanol, ammonia
  • zero greenhouse gas emission infrastructure, including stationary assets for freight handling and port operations within a port or harbour site
  • amendments to offshore infrastructure such as wind farms, required to support the use of zero, near zero or low greenhouse gas emission vessels
  • reception and storage of carbon from onboard carbon capture and storage

  • maintenance and inspection within the maritime sector
  • improvements in port operations
  • vessel design optimisation
  • smart shipping safety and skills
  • vessel operations optimisation
  • vessel route planning and scheduling for efficiency
  • interaction with other transport modes, maritime being the clear focus
  • assurance systems including establishing processes, measurements, systems and risk based approaches to assure the safety and operational competence of smart shipping systems

General themes

Novel clean maritime concepts that do not readily fit into the above themes.

Eligibility

Your project must: have total eligible costs between £750,000 and £6 million; last up to 12 months; start by 1 April 2027; end by 31 March 2028.

Any funded organisation needs to carry out their project work in the UK and must intend to exploit the project results from or in the UK.

 

Our Approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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