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…

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

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…

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)

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…

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.

Inconsistent interpretation and enforcement of biosecurity rules by maritime and agricultural authorities is permitting food waste and its derivatives to be sent to the grey water system, argues Wei Chen, Future Program…

Confronting shipping’s environmental challenges will demand new ways of operating as well as new fuels, according to Roger Holm.

Writing before the full effects of the introduction of the Global Sulphur Cap are fully known, the pace of regulatory developments shows no sign of relenting. Class societies are already providing guidance…

This year’s Motorship Propulsion and Future Fuels Conference, held in Hamburg on 19-20 November 2019, was highly topical, coming shortly after the conclusion of the sixth intersessional meeting of the working group…