By Nick Contopoulos, COO Anemoi. Wind propulsion, which was used to power ships for thousands of years before fossil fuels became readily available, is back on the agenda. As a renewable resource, wind is the compelling option in the push towards industry-wide...
The Singapore-based Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) is leading a consortium of 18 industry partners to launch a drop-in biofuels pilot project worth US$ 18m to establish an assurance framework for ensuring the supply chain integrity of current and...
With sustainability now a key priority for marine equipment manufacturers, HEMEXPO President, Eleni Polychronopoulou, discusses new technology development and its impact on the maritime industry. Recent decades have seen a dramatic acceleration in the development and...
The Lloyd’s Register (LR) Maritime Decarbonisation Hub has launched ‘First movers in Shipping’s Decarbonisation – a framework for getting started’, a methodology that enables a detailed comparison of different fuel transition pathways regardless of vessel type or...
One Sea, an open industry alliance formed to lead the way towards autonomous shipping, advises that with the need for action on climate change becoming increasingly urgent, the maritime industry could make good use of autonomous technology to support its...
Finnish company Deltamarin says it can see first hand how the shipping industry is under a lot of pressure to cut green house gas emissions in the coming years, with all of the company's design projects involving examination and implementation of various technologies...
UECC is calling for “aggressive” emissions targets to be set by the EU under the proposed move to include shipping in the Emissions Trading System (ETS) that it believes will level the playing field by hugely increasing operating costs for pollutive vessels operating...
By North P&I Club’s Alvin Forster and Helen Barden (pictured) With the European Union’s carbon trading scheme expected to include shipping from 2023, shipowners should review their contractual arrangements in good time to ensure the liability for the cost of...
By CJC Associates' Simran Lajmi and Francesca Norman. Considering moving targets on greenhouse gas emissions, it is once more legitimate to question the role carbon credits will play in the maritime future. Will they be a valuable asset in the carbon crackdown to come...
By Gregory Dolan, Chief Executive Officer, Methanol Institute The recent announcement that the United States, Denmark, and Norway, along with the Global Maritime Forum and the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping will lead a Zero-Emission Shipping...
By Trevor Small, Manager of Global Sustainable Technologies, Foreship Requirements for hydrodynamic-efficiency, EEXI compliance analysis, energy storage, shore-charging, fuel cells and alternative fuels suggest something like a perfect storm of demand for ship...
By Geir Bjørkeli, Chief Executive Officer, Corvus Energy Corvus Energy has tapped into Toyota’s 30 years of fuel-cell experience to form a partnership that will enable large-scale production of fuelcell systems for the maritime industry Bergen-based energy storage...
In the global depression that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929, it is argued that 7 million people died of starvation, severe malnutrition, infection and suicide before Roosevelt’s New Deal was rolled out in 1933. While historians continue to debate the figure,...
