SHIP DESIGNER SAYS ACHIEVING GHG ABATEMENT STEMS FROM INITIAL DESIGN
A recent report from Dutch consultancy CE Delft has concluded that it should be technically feasible to reduce shipping emissions by between 28% and 47%, relative to 2008 figures, before 2030. The report, Shipping GHG emissions 2030, Analysis of the maximum...
MEPC 80 ADOPTS REVISED IMO GHG STRATEGY
Member States of IMO, meeting at the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), have adopted a 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships, with enhanced targets to tackle harmful emissions. MEPC 80 met 3-7 July 2023 at IMO Headquarters in...
MAN TO RETROFIT SEASPAN/HAPAG LLOYD BOXSHIPS FOR METHANOL FUEL
MAN Energy Solutions has signed a Conversion Commitment Agreement with Seaspan Corporation (Seaspan),a containership ownership and management company in collaboration with global liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, under which MAN PrimeServ, MAN Energy Solutions’...
SCHULTE GROUP ORDERS BATTERY HYBRID CSOVs FROM ULSTEIN
Bernhard Schulte Offshore is returning to Ulstein Verft for the design and construction of two Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) of the Ulstein SX222 design. The contract includes options for four additional vessels. The vessels, which utilise the Twin...
BV TYPE APPROVAL FOR METIS ShaPoLi SOLUTION
Erma First company Metis Cyberspace Technology has received type approval from Bureau Veritas covering the functionality of its solution for monitoring and reporting shaft power limitation (ShaPoLi, or SPL). Said to offer relative simplicity, cost efficiency and...
NYK BUNKERS BIOFUEL ON WOOD CHIP CARRIER
NYK recently successfully concluded a trial of biodiesel fuel for the wood-chip carrier ‘Daio Austral’, which transports wood chips for Daio Paper Corporation. The fuel was supplied at Kinuura port and this was the first oceangoing vessel operated by NYK...
NYK BECOMES FIRST JAPANESE PARTNER IN GCMD
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) have signed a five-year Strategic Partnership agreement, to further boost the centre’s capacity and efforts to conduct pilots and trials of low-carbon solutions to provide...
WASTEFUEL AND BP SIGN BIO-METHANOL MoU
US company WasteFuel has announced an agreement with bp to collaborate on improving renewable fuel production for the maritime transportation sector. WasteFuel was founded to solve two growing global crises: the need to decarbonise transportation as quickly as...