As container companies continue a record spell of new ship contracting, fuel choice is a key challenge.
Topic: SHIPPING
Alternative Fuels: Many Possibilities But a Clear Path is Evasive
As the world zeroes in on alternative energy sources and products that can deliver power and performance, there are advances that could sway even the most hardened skeptic.
Green challenge: can the shipping industry clean up its act?
James McKenzie looks at the global shipping industry which is making amazing progress on decarbonization
Brazil charts a course for a clean maritime future with a pivotal seminar
The Energy Transition in the Sea seminar held in Rio de Janeiro in late April marked a major step forward in plans to decarbonize Brazil’s maritime sector.
90 per cent fewer emissions – work on the Baltic Sea’s first green corridor culminates in an historic week
Viking Line’s vessels serving the Turku route will reduce their emissions by 90 per cent when the company runs those vessels for the first time for a whole week solely on biogas.
Shipping gears up to debate carbon levies
Ahead of the next session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), scheduled to start at the end of September, proposals are pouring into the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Green fuels and the progress of decarbonization
In an interview with Maritime Fairtrade, Edwin Khew, chairman of the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), deconstructs the profile of different alternative fuels and how decarbonization progress can be pushed ahead.
Methane slip being eliminated as LNG uptake accelerates
Significant progress is being made to eradicate methane slip as uptake of the LNG pathway accelerates, and this is worth underlining. With continued collaborative efforts across the value chain, methane slip will be eliminated for all engine technologies within the decade.
Hybrid propulsion systems: a short-term solution to greener shipping?
Russell Edson, partner and patent attorney and Tim Wilson, trainee patent attorney at Withers & Rogers, explain how hybrid propulsioncan contribute to greener shipping.
MOL and Chevron Shipping Company to Install Wind Challenger on LNG Carrier Wind-Assisted Ship Propulsion Systems is an LNG Shipping First
As part of their ongoing commitment to lower the carbon intensity of their operations, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Chevron Shipping Company LLC (Chevron), a subsidiary of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., announced an agreement to install Wind Challenger, a hard sail wind-assisted ship propulsion system developed by MOL and Oshima Shipbuilding together (Note 1), to a new build LNG carrier under long term charter from MOL Encean Pte. Ltd. (MOL’s 100% indirectly owned subsidiary) to Chevron Asia Pacific Shipping Pte. Ltd.