New EU rules for cleaner maritime fuels

Parliament and Council reached a deal on cleaner maritime fuels, asking to cut ship emissions by 2% as of 2025 and by 80% as of 2050, to help the EU become climate neutral. A provisional agreement reached between the European Parliament and Council negotiators sets up a fuel standard for ships to steer the EU

RightShip’s rating toll to provide EEXI values in GHG

Digital maritime platform RightShip is updating its greenhouse gas (GHG) rating tool to incorporate Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) values from the first quarter of 2023. The changes being introduced will make its GHG rating the industry’s first rating to include the EEXI, the Existing Vessel Design Index (EVDI) and the Energy Efficiency Design

EU lawmakers call for 2% green marine fuel mandate by 2030

Europe’s lawmakers have adopted their position on draft EU rules on the use of renewable and low-carbon fuels in maritime transport (FuelEU Maritime) with a 2% mandate by 2030. The European Parliament wants the maritime sector to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships by 2% as of 2025, 20% as of 2035 and 80%

Honeywell revolutionizes ethanol-to-jet-fuel technology

Honeywell announced a new, innovative ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology that allows producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Depending on the type of ethanol feedstock used, jet fuel produced from Honeywell’s ethanol-to-jet fuel process can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80% on a total lifecycle basis, compared

Wärtsilä to help Capital Gas cut GHG emissions

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has partnered up Capital Gas Ship Management Corp. to develop a new Fleet Decarbonisation Programme aimed at boosting the efficiency of the company’s LNG carrier fleet. The agreement was signed in June 2022 and will be applied to a fleet of six 174,000 cbm LNG carriers within the Capital Gas

Port of Long Beach reports increased GHG emissions in 2021

The Port of Long Beach issued its 2021 emissions inventory report, presenting both good and bad news on its performance. The bad news is that record cargo volumes and the unusually high number of ocean-going vessels staying at anchor off the coast drove up greenhouse gas emissions by 22% over the baseline 2005 results. The

Expleo develops e-methanol fuel cell solution for shipping

Expleo has developed an innovative closed-loop, e-methanol fuel cell solution for global shipping that delivers a 92% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe).  With this the global engineering and technology service provider offers an OPEX savings of £1.4m a year per vessel. Expleo modelled its ‘system-of-systems’ solution on the multi-tasking Bibby Wavemaster 1, a vessel

Development of green hydrogen corridors necessary for promotion

The NITI Aayog, the apex public policy think tank, its report on ‘Harnessing Green Hydrogen – Opportunities for Deep Decarbonisation in India’, said that the country needs to form Green Hydrogen Corridors (GHC). The apex body also said that governments can look at providing grants to startups as well as support entrepreneurs to promote green

What is the pathway for carbon neutral shipping?

With decarbonisation much in the public eye, shipping is currently and perhaps belatedly trying to find the best pathway to carbon neutral fuels. Shipping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proportion of global GHG anthropogenic emissions increased from 2.76% in 2012 to 2.89% in 2018, according to the Fourth IMO GHG Study 2020. To put

India to attract large investments due to COP26 commitments: ICRA

The commitments on emission control made by India at the recent Glasgow COP26 summit are expected to benefit the country in the long-term with new technologies in energy efficiency, carbon reduction and green fuels, rating agency ICRA said adding this is likely to attract investment in billions across sectors. ICRA, in its recent research report,