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Ammmonia	Methanol	BioFuel & Clean Diesel	Nuclear	LNG

Using an abundant, if toxic, resource to power the maritime fleet.	A mature future fuel already in use - but will it become dominant?	Numerous NGOs protested against the IMO earlier this year putting biofuels in its Global Fuel Standard, but the “fuel versus food” debate seems to have been solved by deriving fuels from waste.	Technically the cleanest possible fuel source available to the maritime world and one that has the longest history, dating back to the 1950s. Why is it not in common, non-military use?	LNG is currently the most popular lower carbon fuel, but with bio and e-LNG it could move beyond its current transition fuel status supported by extensive existing infrastructure.
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Houlder’s HOME aims to add certainty to energy saving decisions

2026-01-27T15:58:00Z

We caught up with Houlder’s chief technical officer, Jonathan Strachan, to ask him about developments at HOME (Houlder’s Optimisation and Modelling Environment)
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Hydroniq Coolers’ Rack system gets the thumbs up from Louis Dreyfus Armateurs.
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Stena’s wind hybrid ferry arrives in Belfast

2026-01-20T15:43:00Z

Stena Line’s new RoRo vessel Stena Connecta will deploy wind propulsion technology to cut shipping emissions on the Irish Sea