According to Recharge, Neo Orbis is the passenger ship that will be the test subject of implementing solid hydrogen on modern vessels.

Solid hydrogen is said to be significantly safer and easier to store compared to compressed or liquid hydrogen.

Neo Orbis will be used to travel around Amsterdam's canals and also around the region of the North Sea and it will be operating on hydrogen released from a salt type called sodium borohydride.

Dutch shipbuilder Next Generation Shipyards will be responsible with building the new ship.

Representatives from Interreg North West Europe, an organization sponsoring the H2Ships project, said that "the major advantage of this hydrogen carrier is its high energy density and that it can be bunkered safely in many places."

"The ship will pave the way for scaling-up of this technology for inland and short-sea shipping", the officials added.

The project has other ambitions, including the ability to create a closed loop system, which would enable the inside of the vessel to be heated with the energy resulted from the catalytic process.

Also, engineers think that residual material can be used in order to generate new sodium borohydride, meaning that this ship could actually be sustainable.