FOI2026/00664: Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 3 project 10057223
Case reference FOI2026/00664
Received 1 August 2026
Published 9 November 2026
Request
Request received: 1 August 2026
I request the following information relating to the Innovate UK-funded project “Zero Emission Cross River Ferry” (reference 10057223), funded under the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 3 and led by Collins River Enterprises Limited (project dates 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2025).
Each numbered item is severable. If any item is exempt or would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please process the remaining items independently and identify which item or items could not be provided and why.
1. The final grant payments made for the project, broken down by consortium partner.
2. The monitoring, progress and evaluation reports submitted by the consortium during the project and at its conclusion, including any information relating to the ferry’s usage, patronage, service frequency, operating performance or operating costs.
3. The project’s final or completion report or, if this has not yet been submitted or approved, the most recent version held by Innovate UK.
4. Any reports, returns, datasets or other material relating to this project that were provided for the evaluation of the UK SHORE programme, including any post-completion or in-service reporting held by UKRI and received after the project’s closure. I note that the demonstrated service entered public operation as Orbit Clipper on 5 December 2025, after the project end date, so any in-service information may have been submitted separately from the project’s own monitoring.
If any of the requested information is held by the Department for Transport or another public authority rather than by UKRI, I would be grateful if you could advise me accordingly and, where appropriate, transfer or forward the relevant part of this request.
The published project description states that the project would assess operational performance, operating costs and wider societal impacts. Given that this was a publicly funded demonstration project intended to inform wider deployment, I ask that any consideration of sections 41 or 43 carefully weighs the strong public interest in disclosure. Where only parts of a document are exempt, I request that exempt material be redacted and the remainder disclosed.
For clarity, I have seen the published CMDC3 winners spreadsheet, the project’s entry on Gateway to Research and the published evaluation of the UK SHORE programme. This request concerns information not contained in those sources, particularly the final payment figures and the project-level reporting and returns.
Response
Response sent: 30 September 2026
Full details of this response are provided in the attached documents.
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