Finland-Led Research to Focus on Combining Technologies
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Monday January 25, 2021 Research quest: low-carbon shipping. File Image / Pixabay. Research into expanding shipping s understanding of how technologies can reduce a vessel s carbon footprint is being undertaken by Vaasa University in Finland The project, called
CHEK, which stands for decarbonizing shipping by enabling key technology symbiosis on real vessel concept designs, has
European Union backing and will run for
three years. The nub of the project is to look into how emerging technologies can be combined into a systemically symbiotic entity , according to project co-ordinator
Suvi Karirinne.
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Maersk Institute Seeks Economist to Solve Commercial Challenge of Shipping Decarbonisation
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Thursday January 21, 2021 The marine decarbonisation centre set up by the parent company of logistics giant
Maersk is looking to hire an economist to solve the thorny issue of how to make the shift to zero-carbon bunkers commercially viable. The
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping has posted a job advertisement for a chief economist in
Copenhagen. The organisation is a non-profit independent research centre, working across the whole of shipping with industry, academia and the authorities, it said upon its launch last year.
Navigator Hails First Carbon-Neutral Voyage Using Offsets
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Wednesday January 20, 2021 Gas carrier operator Navigator Holdings is using carbon offsets to reduce its emissions footprint. The company has announced its first carbon-neutral voyage, buying carbon offsets for the voyage of one its Handysize LPG carriers taking a cargo across the Atlantic.
UN-verified renewable energy project in the
Philippines, Navigator said in a statement on its website Tuesday. Offsetting is one of several tools we choose to use in order to deliver a true carbon-neutral voyage,
Oeyvind Lindeman, chief commercial officer at Navigator, said in the statement. We are looking at ways to further promote and develop similar voyages in collaboration with our stakeholders.
Maersk CEO Søren Skou Expects to Make First Carbon-Neutral Ship Order in 2023
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday January 19, 2021 Logistics giant
AP Moller-Maersk, the owner of the largest shipping company in the world, expects to order its first carbon-neutral ship as soon as
2023. The company is likely to order smaller container ships at first while it gets accustomed to the new fuels, CEO
Søren Skou said on a
Global Optimism podcast released this week. Three years from now, we expect to buy the first order . the first series of maybe small container ships that we can operate in a defined geographical area, Skou said.
Suezmax Tanker Wins First Ammonia-Ready Stamp of Approval From ABS
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday January 19, 2021 The ABS ammonia-ready label means the ships is designed to be converted to run on ammonia in future. File Image / Pixabay A Suezmax tanker currently under construction has won the world s first ammonia-ready designation from a classification society.
ABS has given the label to a Suezmax under construction at a
New Times Shipbuilding yard for
Avin International. The ship will be conventionally fuelled upon delivery. Compliance with the ABS Ammonia Ready Level 1 requirements means the ships is designed to be converted to run on ammonia in the future, ABS said in a statement on its website Tuesday.