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...
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,...
How has the introduction of the International Maritime Organisation’s low sulphur cap fared amid what has been one of the most turbulent years in living memory? “Through 2020, just 55 cases of 0.5% compliant fuel being unavailable had been reported in IMO’s Global...
Natasa Pilides (pictured) Cyprus’ shipping deputy minister believes that it is wrong for the focus of environmental regulation to fall on shipowners only and argues that the focus for greenhouse gas emissions should switch to fuel suppliers. In an interview...
By Alvin Forster, North P&I’s Loss Prevention Executive The subject of scrubbers – particularly of the open-loop type – stokes quite a lot of emotion and has polarised opinion. The North P&I Club has provided members with advice on how to best protect...
By Adam Jolliffe, Senior Sales Manager, Maritime, Chelsea Technologies Shipowners who have invested in Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) rightly expect that they’ll deliver reliable, simple regulatory compliance. These systems often represent millions of...
By Ian Cochran You have to be living on another planet if you are not aware that the de-carbonisation in shipping debate is in full swing. However, we are still a long way off. As one expert put it: “There is no winning solution at present.” Regulations will need to...
Natural gas has been regarded as the marine “fuel of the future”, but growing concerns over the impact of methane emissions on climate change means that some owners remain sceptical. CSI spoke to Christos Chryssakis business development manager at DNV GL – Maritime...
