The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report published on 9 August paints a bleak picture on the status of the world’s climate, and scientifically proves that it will be extremely difficult to reach the 1.5-degree target under the…
Shape up or ship out: EU Commission pushes hard on maritime emissions Read More »
In the first quarter of 2024, A.P. Moller – Maersk will introduce the first in a groundbreaking series of 8 large ocean-going container vessels capable of being operated on carbon neutral methanol. The vessels will be built by Hyundai Heavy Indus…
A major European shipping trade body is among those lobbying against the EU’s proposed Paris Agreement-aligned net-zero pathway. A report by London-based think tank InfluenceMap tracked 20 trade bodies’ efforts to lobby against the EU’…
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Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV Maritime, argues that maritime’s drive for decarbonization shouldn’t be seen as a race, but rather a dugnad. While the word means little outside of Norway, it has implications capable of transforming progress worldwide. …
Dugnad to zero emissions Read More »
Methanol as a commercially and technically viable marine fuel is gaining greater traction over other alternative bunkers, including LNG, as more shipowners adopt the clean burning fuel as price spreads narrow and production ramps up. Speaking at a virt…
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