Opinion

OPINION

OPINION

2023 promises to be a momentous year for the shipping industry.

2nd February 2023

Business models to influence tech choices: viewpoint

2nd February 2023

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

At the end of November, Maersk announced it was shuttering TradeLens, the cargo platform co-developed with IBM, which once promised to revolutionise the way cargoes moved around by leveraging the distributed ledger…

2nd December 2022

How Maersk’s TradeLens did not spark shipping’s digital revolution

2nd December 2022

OPINION

OPINION

The shipping industry faces a significant challenge in meeting the IMO’s decarbonisation targets and the task becomes the more difficult the better the economic climate and the stronger the growth of global…

20th October 2022

Retrofitting existing ships huge challenge in decarbonisation: Stopford

20th October 2022

OPINION

OPINION

Sven Lumber, Head of EcoTow, Group Operations makes the case for decarbonisation in the towage market

29th August 2022

Svitzer’s EcoTow solution is part of its carbon neutrality target

29th August 2022

OPINION

OPINION

Industry group SEALNG finds significant benefits to a business choosing an LNG retrofit over fuelling with VLSFO or retrofitting an HFO vessel with scrubbers, based on a 10-year payback period.

10th August 2022

SEALNG challenges scrubber/VLSFO payback

10th August 2022

OPINION

OPINION

SEALNG urges the industry to make like-for-like comparisons when discussing alternative marine fuels.

19th July 2022

Don’t compare LNG with green ammonia: SEALNG

19th July 2022

OPINION

OPINION

The European Union’s USD221 billion (EUR210bn) REPowerEU scheme will accelerate the emergence of a hydrogen economy in the EU, while ending the trading bloc’s reliance upon imported Russian hydrocarbons by 2027.

19th May 2022

Green hydrogen: the European Union nails its colours to mast

19th May 2022

OPINION

OPINION

Transport & Environment recently released colourful images of gas and heat plumes from the stacks of two vessels, claiming to have exposed “Europe’s dirty secret at sea,” but industry organisation SEA-LNG is…

25th April 2022

Is LNG the shipping industry’s dirty secret?

25th April 2022

OPINION

OPINION

The extension of the UK National Shipbuilding Strategy to commercial maritime shipbuilding, as well as a renewed focus on improving export competitiveness is a welcome step.

17th March 2022

Bold Shipbuilding Strategy Needs Delivery To Match

17th March 2022

OPINION

OPINION

The German Shipowners’ Association (VDR) has released new figures on the German shipping sector and called for action on decarbonisation. 

3rd March 2022

VDR calls for support on decarbonisation

3rd March 2022

OPINION

OPINION

It is impossible to expect a bilge water separator approved according to MEPC 107 (49) which came into force in 2005 to work with the same efficiency today, says Benny Carlson, Owner…

23rd February 2022

Call to change bilge water separator regulations

23rd February 2022

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

European port operators want coherent legislation on the provision and the use of clean energy infrastructure for ports.

30th November 2021

EU Ports Call For FuelEU Clarity

30th November 2021

OPINION

OPINION

If the arrival of low and zero carbon future fuels is central to achieving progress in decarbonising shipping, we can expect an increasing focus on the viability of solutions for alternative fuels…

25th October 2021

How methanol holds the key to unlocking hydrogen at sea

25th October 2021

OPINION

OPINION

Toby Mumford of Wight Shipyard Co discusses the challenges of preparing for changes in the UK and major European markets, and mulls greater localisation requirements.

16th September 2021

Localisation requirements for UK offshore wind could help rebuild local supply chains

16th September 2021

OPINION

OPINION

A number of international shipowner associations have called for governments to act decisively in November to support the creation of an IMO-supervised USD 5 billion R&D Fund programme, to be led by…

21st June 2021

Shipping industry calls for action on multi-billion decarbonisation fund

21st June 2021

OPINION

OPINION

Shipowners should consider clean technologies alongside slow steaming when assessing different solutions to EEXI and CII rules, argues Noah Silberschmidt, CEO, Silverstream Technologies.

9th June 2021

Clean technologies, maritime decarbonisation and market complexity

9th June 2021

OPINION

OPINION

The industry has recognised the need for revolution if the goal of putting near zero-emission vessels on the water by 2030 is to be met, says Mr. Kazuki Saiki, Deputy Manager, Strategic…

26th April 2021

Fuel choice key to the journey to cleaner shipping

26th April 2021

OPINION

OPINION

Lars Robert Pedersen, deputy secretary general of BIMCO assesses MARPOL Annex VI amendments approved at the 75th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 75)

11th December 2020

Short-term GHG reduction measures will not deliver decarbonisation

11th December 2020

OPINION

OPINION

Gas Fest and the Society for Gas as Marine Fuel (SGMF) hosted a series of virtual workshops last week to explore how to strengthen the framework for clean fuels in shipping. The…

11th November 2020

Gas Fest virtual workshops identify incremental pathway for LNG-fuelled shipping

11th November 2020

OPINION

OPINION

Renewable hydrogen is crucial to shipping’s decarbonisation. But getting there will not be easy or cheap, writes Dr Dino Imhof, Head of Turbocharging Solutions, ABB Turbocharging.

15th April 2020

The path to hydrogen with a zero-carbon footprint

15th April 2020