To provide the explanation of the latest adopted and anticipated IMO regulations, offering insights into their impact on the maritime sector.
To highlight key regulatory changes at regional and national levels, emphasizing their potential implications for industry stakeholders.
Publication year: 2025
Safe Onboard Carbon Capture and Storage
To provide a high-level analysis of current and emerging regulatory frameworks related to onboard carbon capture and storage (OCCS), offering insights into the key factors influencing their safe adoption in the maritime sector.
To highlight critical safety, economic, and technological considerations for implementing OCCS, emphasizing their potential implications and requirements for maritime industry stakeholders, including policymakers, technology providers, shipping companies, and port authorities.
Supply-side and demand-side stranded asset risks in shipping
To provides an overview of the supply-side and demand-side risks of stranded assets in the shipping industry as it transitions towards decarbonization.
To quantify the scale of these risks, particularly for fossil fuel-dependent vessels, and to provide insights for industry stakeholders on mitigating financial and operational impacts.
How the IMO’s mid-term measures might shape shipping’s energy choices and transition to e-fuels
To examine how the IMO’s mid-term measures will influence shipping’s transition to e-fuels and decarbonization.
To evaluate different policy scenarios, including fuel standards, levies, and financial incentives, to determine their effectiveness in promoting low-emission fuel adoption.
Linking the employment of alternative marine fuels to a carbon price for shipping
To study the feasibility of hydrogen and ammonia as marine fuels, this research analyses their costs and benefits. While both fuels offer long-term decarbonization potential, adoption faces challenges due to high capital investments and operational costs. Green hydrogen is the most expensive, followed by green ammonia, blue hydrogen, and blue ammonia, though green alternatives have minimal emissions costs. This highlights the need for Market-Based Measures (MBMs) to support their implementation.
Biofuels in shipping (2025 Ver.)
To investigate the role of bio-marine fuels in the ongoing decarbonization transition of international shipping, this report examines key challenges such as technological advancements, feedstock scarcity, and supply infrastructure improvements. Global regulatory frameworks, including IMO measures, FuelEU Maritime, and the EU ETS, along with shippers’ Scope 3 emission reduction demands, are driving the commercialization of bio-marine fuels.