Tag: decarbonization

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Chief Shipping Analyst, Niels Rasmussen, explores the contraction of product tankers which has reached an 18-year high.

Trafigura recognizes the importance of supporting the decarbonization of shipping and highlights five key actions to take today for a more sustainable future.

Anders Korsgaard, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blue World Technologies, urges the maritime industry to embrace new technologies in its journey toward decarbonization.

Hamanaka Town, JA Hamanaka, Takanashi Milk Products Co., Ltd., Hokkaido Gas Co., Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., and MOL Sunflower Ltd. announced the launch of a study on the production and utilization of biomethane from animal manure from local dairy farms in Hamanaka town, Hokkaido where is thriving with dairy farming.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) and CORE POWER have launched a joint regulatory assessment study to conduct research on the regulatory feasibility and frameworks that would need to be established for a nuclear container ship using a fourth-generation reactor noted for its high inherent safety to undertake cargo operations at a port in Europe.

ABS has published its Outlook for 2024 which explores the carbon-neutral fuel pathways and the transformational technologies that will support the maritime industry’s challenging journey to 2050.

Leading maritime trade bodies are calling on the UK Government to ensure that publication of the plan for decarbonising the shipping sector is a top priority. 

Edison announces that it has completed the liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling in the port of Trieste. The ship-to-ship bunkering operation is the first to take place in the Adriatic Sea and the first to be carried out by Edison through the use of the LNG carrier Ravenna Knutsen.

During the 50th anniversary celebration of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association UK (WISTA UK), His Excellency Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), emphasized the importance of diversity in maritime.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines announced that the Green Winds, a 63,896 DWT Ultramax bulk carrier equipped with the Wind Challenger hard sail wind power propulsion system, was completed at Oshima Shipbuilding Co.