Shipping industry needs to adopt blue ammonia to achieve fast decarbonisation

The shipping sector needs to adopt blue ammonia as part of the bunker fuel mix to achieve timely decarbonisation, and substantial growth of CO2 storage infrastructure could support this in the coming years, according to a study by Denmark’s Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. Some shipowners are expecting methanol to play a

Importance of high purity CO2 as feedstock

Carbon capture and storage has been at the top of many news feeds in recent weeks but the challenges of transporting CO2 and the importance of high purity CO2 as a feedstock for e-fuels should also be a priority, says Rupert Hare, CEO of design and engineering consultancy, Houlder. The purity of CO2 is dictated

The confusion in choosing a future fuel

The challenge we have is that there are many different options and no consensus today on which of the sustainable fuels will be commercially available. Commercial availability depends on geographic location, national interests and legislations, and the availability of feedstock.

COSCO unveils electric container ship

COSCO Shipping Development, the financing arm of Chinese state giant COSCO Shipping, has announced the launch of a 700 teu electric container ship which will serve a regular 1,000-km route up and down the Yangtze River. The 10,000 dwt vessel will be powered by 36 portable container-sized batteries and have two 900 kW main propulsion

Yanmar commercializes marine hydrogen fuel cell system

Yanmar Power Technology has commercialized its marine hydrogen fuel cell system. The system is initially targeted at passenger ships, work boats, and cargo ships that navigate coastal areas where hydrogen replenishment is relatively easy. Yanmar participated in the development of Japan’s safety guidelines for hydrogen fuel cell ships and the formulation of a roadmap for

Hapag-Lloyd’s dual-fuel ship reaches Jebel Ali Port

The Berlin Express is a state-of-the-art vessel with a capacity of 23,600 TEU. It is the first of 12 dual-fuel vessels ordered by the shipping line which will run on Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), producing significantly lower emissions than traditional marine diesel.

Wärtsilä delivers reductions in emissions to two MR tankers

The vessels, Elandra Sea and Elandra Star, owned by global energy company Vitol, and managed by Latvian operator LSC Group, had tailored Wärtsilä EnergoFlow and EnergoProFin systems installed during summer 2022.

Cost of emissions compliance favours LNG over methanol, says SEA-LNG study 

Using long-term price benchmarks for ammonia, methanol and LNG as a marine fuel, SEA-LNG has calculated the cost of compliance with FuelEU Maritime regulations for a typical 14,000-TEU newbuild container vessel coming into operation in 2025.

Shipping industry faces higher costs as marine fuel rises 23% this year

The shipping industry is starting to feel the full force of surging diesel and petrol costs. Ship fuel can be made from some of the same ingredients that refiners can also put into diesel and petrol. But soaring margins of the latter two fuels are making their production more attractive, resulting in tighter supplies for

Shipping still falls short on decarbonisation after climate talks

The organisation that regulates shipping made little fresh progress toward decarbonising the industry during a series of meetings last week.  The main outcome from talks hosted by the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization was agreement to revise, in 2023, its decarbonisation strategy – and that wasn’t really new. A non-binding proposal on zero emissions didn’t