Environment
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Norsepower to install tiltable rotor sails on Sea-Cargo vessel
Finnish auxiliary wind propulsion system provider Norsepower has entered into an agreement with Sea-Cargo, a logistics provider in the North…
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UK climate committee urges IMO to make 2050 GHG goals more strict
International shipping and aviation are likely to be included in the UK’s greenhouse gas plans to be net zero by…
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European consortium bids to fast track commercial pathway to climate neutral methanol
A consortium of European maritime research and technology firms have launched the FASTWATER project to demonstrate the feasibility of retrofit…
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Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping opens in Copenhagen
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping was opened today in Copenhagen, featuring some of the biggest names…
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‘We really, really do not have much time left’
With the relaunch of the Splash website we asked some shipping luminaries to pen their thoughts on how our industry…
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‘One of our biggest challenges is learning to cooperate and to accelerate’
With the relaunch of the Splash website we asked some famous names in shipping to pen their thoughts on how…
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Stena Bulk to offer low carbon shipping options
Swedish owner Stena Bulk is set to offer low carbon shipping options to its customers following its recent biofuel trial…
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Up to 700 remaining scrubber retrofits could be shelved
Up to 700 remaining scrubber retrofits are “vulnerable” to postponement or cancellation, according to new research from Clarkson Research Services.…
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Call to convert all open-loop scrubbers
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a Washington DC-based non-profit organisation, is calling for all open-loop scrubbers to be…
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New European consortium developing green fuel for aviation turns its attention to shipping
A front-runner for the next generation of green fuel for the aviation industry could be used for ships. Oslo-headquartered Norsk…
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MSC debuts carbon neutral offering
MSC, the world’s second largest contanerline, has teamed with a carbon credit specialist to offer clients a new carbon neutral…
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Certainty is absurd
Bureau Veritas’s Nick Brown helmed a Mare Forum debate on Friday that got him thinking about Voltaire and Star Trek.…
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Research questions the validity of slow steaming’s green claims
Three shipping professors have revisited the science behind slow steaming and are questioning the validity of the green claims championed…
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ESL Shipping adopts biogas fuel for bulk carrier
Finnish bulk carrier operator ESL Shipping has announced that company has adopted renewable liquefied biogas (LBG) to fuel one of…
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Covid-19 slows the spread of environmental regulation
For all the debate in recent months on whether the ongoing pandemic will stymie or accelerate shipping’s decarbonisation path, there…
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New study stresses shipping must retrofit today rather than count on next generation of vessels to meet carbon targets
New climate research has stated that urgent action on emissions from existing ships is the key to tackling shipping’s impact…
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Germany paves way for green hydrogen future
After six months of inter-ministerial debates, and two weeks of last minute haggling, the German government finally adopted its national…
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Denmark details how it plans to lead world shipping in new era of climate diplomacy
Denmark has revealed details of how the nation’s government and its shipping community intend to deploy climate diplomacy to slash…
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‘Put a price on carbon to make it profitable to order a zero emission vessel by 2030’: Lasse Kristoffersen
Members of the Getting to Zero Coalition made the case for a carbon tax on shipping at a high-level webinar…
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Rodolphe Saadé vows to make CMA CGM carbon neutral by 2050
Rodolphe Saadé was among a high-level Zoom panel speaking yesterday at the United Nations Global Compact gathering during which he…
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