Shipping: Emission Possible

With the current focus on alternative marine power sources, it’s easy to overlook the overwhelmingly dominant position of the internal combustion engine, or ICE, in marine propulsion. The marine two-stroke ICE is so well proven and so well established …

The European Commission has published the first annual report on CO2 emissions from maritime transport. The report analyses the CO2 emissions and energy efficiency information of all the ships over 5,000 gross tonnage, which performed maritime transpor…

Despite recent low bunker prices a significant proportion of marine fuel buyers still do not have any risk management strategies in place to mitigate anticipated price rises. Two thirds of LQM Petroleum Services clients polled in a webinar last week (1…

These are turbulent times for our industry. Ship owners have been thrust from the relative comfort of gradual change to seismic shifts and mounting complexity – a process set in motion by the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2020 sulphur cap…

A group of companies has come together to develop a better understanding of the practical realities involved in using ammonia as a fuel for ships. Ammonia is one of a number of options to be a marine fuel of the future. One of the key elements in the g…