According to a new study led by environmental consultancy Ricardo, the ferry route between Dublin Port and the Port of Holyhead could serve as one of Europe’s first dedicated green shipping corridors. The study identified green methanol as a suitable candidate fuel...
Dutch chemical tanker operator Chemship has commissioned its first ship with wind assisted ship propulsion, which the company believes will make the 'Chemical Challenger' the first such tanker to be equipped with sustainable wind technology. The ship will serve on...
Seatrium has secured an order to retrofit a full-scale, turnkey Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) system on a vessel owned by Norwegian company Solvang. The full-scale retrofit of a 7MW Wärtsilä CCS system, which is believed to be the first such retrofit, will be...
BIMCO, together with Bangladesh, India, Norway, Pakistan and the ICS, has submitted a paper ahead of IMO's 81st Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC81) meeting in March 2024. The paper highlights the need to solve possible conflicting requirements of the Hong...
As IMO member states prepare for negotiations on a GHG emissions pricing mechanism at MEPC 81 in March 2024, the World Shipping Council (WSC) is bringing to the table a proposal on greenhouse gas pricing that it believes can help solve the conundrum of bridging the...
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator has awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Anemoi Marine Technologies (Anemoi) for its rotor sail systems following a review of two bespoke configurations of the wind-propulsion technology. Rotor...
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator has awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Anemoi Marine Technologies (Anemoi) for rotor sail systems following a review of two bespoke configurations of the wind-assisted propulsion technology....
The Port of Hamburg has awarded a contract to Baltic Workboats in Estonia for a new environmentally-friendly 18m pilot transfer vessel, with an option for a second. The new Hamburg Pilot 1 is valued at about €3m, and the order was placed following a competitive...
NYK reports that for a fourth consecutive year, CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), an international environmental non-profit organisation, has recognised NYK as an 'A' List company for climate change. CDP’s annual environmental disclosure and scoring process is widely...
New results from a behaviour-focused sustainable shipping trial undertaken by Ridgebury Tankers are said to have raised the bar for maritime decarbonisation projects, with ships’ crews making fuel-saving decisions 21% more often. The six-month trial achieved...
Viking Line, Ports of Stockholm and the Port of Turku have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a green maritime corridor between Turku and Stockholm. The goal is for the corridor to be 100% carbon-neutral by 2035. The partnership will serve as an...
French shipowner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) and the Finnish mechanical sail company, Norsepower have announced that the Norsepower Rotor Sail technology will be installed on LDA's new low-emission ro-ro fleet to be chartered to Airbus. The Norsepower Rotor Sail is...
A.P. Moller-Maersk´s (Maersk’s) GHG emissions targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to be in line with the 1.5-degree pathway from the Paris Agreement. This is said to mark an industry first under SBTi’s new Maritime Guidance....
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