Shipping decarbonisation

Hapag-Lloyd Launches Ship Green Transport Solution

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  • Customers can choose among three different options, representing different levels of avoidance in CO2e emissions.
  • By offering Ship Green, Hapag-Lloyd is continuing along its path towards achieving climate neutral fleet operations by 2045.
  • The company guarantees that it uses biofuel from 2nd-generation feedstock sourced from certified supply chains and produced from waste material such as brown grease.

Hapag-Lloyd is introducing Ship Green, a new solution for...

https://mfame.guru/hapag-lloyd-launches-ship-green-transport-solution/

Industry to explore green methanol bunkering at the Port of Melbourne

Graphic: a molecule of methanol (CH3OH).

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Port of Melbourne, Maersk, ANL (a subsidiary of CMA-CGM), Svitzer, Stolthaven Terminals, HAMR Energy and ABEL Energy to explore the commercial feasibility of establishing a green methanol bunkering hub at the Port of Melbourne.

The collaboration will examine a potential project involving the transportation of green methanol from production sites in Bell Bay, Tasmania (ABEL Energy) [see e.g. “Shipp...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/industry-to-explore-green-methanol-bunkering-at-melbourne/

EU’s Fit for 55 – Euro-Parliament agrees to next steps to hit 2030 climate target

Pictured: a cruise ship releases pollution and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Credit Jurgen Sieber via Pixabay.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have adopted the reform of the EU’s Emissions Trading System, which will include the maritime sector. The reform also covers aviation, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and a new Social Climate fund.

In mid-April the Euro-Parliament approved deals made with EU member states in late 2022 in relation to the “Fit for 55” Package. That’s a...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/eus-fit-for-55-euro-parliament-agrees-to-next-steps-to-hit-2030-climate-target/

Shipping Australia welcomes news of EUR1.1 bn green methanol investment in Tasmania

Pictured: an artist’s impression of a green hydrogen production plant to be build by Spanish energy giant Iberdrola. Hydrogen can be produced in an environmentally friendly way by using renewably-source energy (such as from the sun, wind, or waves) to create electricity that is used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen when combined with carbon, and oxygen can be used to create methanol (CH3-0H), an alcohol that can be used as a marine fuel. Graphic credit: Iberdrola.

Shipping...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/shipping-australia-welcomes-news-of-eur1-1-bn-green-methanol-investment-in-tasmania/

Ammonia-fueled bulk carrier design receives Approval-in-Principle from Class NK

by “K” Line

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line) announced that, together with ITOCHU Corporation, Nihon Shipyard Co, Mitsui E&S Machinery Co, and NS United Kaiun Kaisha, an Approval in Principle (AiP) has been obtained from Classification Society, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai for the design of an ammonia-fueled ship (200,000 deadweight ton class bulk carrier.

The vessel, which recently received an AiP, was developed by Nihon Shipyard as the part of the “Integrated Project for the Development and Social...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/ammonia-fueled-bulk-carrier-design-receives-approval-in-principle-from-class-nk/

Carbon Intensity Indicator rules to cut shipping emissions from early next year

Graphic: an artistic representation of atmospheric carbon dioxide – a clear, colourless, atmospheric gas. Graphic credit: Matthias Heyde via Unsplash.

Efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of shipping will receive a major boost early next year when a new suite of regulations take effect.

Global maritime greenhouse gas emissions stand at about 1,076 million tonnes per annum, according to the International Maritime Organization, which, if global maritime was a country, would put it a little bit...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/carbon-intensity-indicator-rules-to-cut-shipping-emissions-from-early-next-year/

NYK in 100% biofuel trial

Shipping line NYK and its subsidiary, Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha, have begun a pilot programme of using 100% biodiesel in tugboats.

Neste Renewable Diesel from Neste Oyj Group is being supplied under contract by Itochu Enex Co Ltd for use in Shin-Nippon’s tugboats.

Biofuels generally are made from renewable biomass (such as e.g. stalks from grain plants) and combustion results in virtually no new carbon dioxide (as the biomass usually extracts CO2 from the air as it grows when it is alive). Biofuels...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/nyk-in-100-biofuel-trial/

Only 35% of major shipping companies have made IMO or net zero 2050 decarbonisation pledge: MMMCZS analysis

According to a new study looking at the commitment of leading shipping companies tο decarbonisation, only 35% have set and communicated a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

The assessment, conducted by the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping (MMMCZCS), is based on the green shipping ambitions of the largest shipping companies, by owned tonnage. Tankers, bulk, container and RORO/car carriers are the types examined because they are responsible for 70% of global maritime...

https://container-news.com/only-35-of-major-shipping-companies-have-made-imo-or-net-zero-2050-decarbonisation-pledge-mmmczs-analysis/

Future-fuel demand for shipping industry equal to entire current global production of renewables

Pictured: offshore energy generating windmills. Photo credit Mary Ray via Unsplash.

By the International Chamber of Shipping

New data released earlier this week has revealed how the global shipping industry will require the equivalent of the world’s entire current renewable energy demand in order to replace fossil fuel use.

‘Fuelling the Fourth Propulsion Revolution’, authored by Professor Dr. Stefan Ulreich from Germany’s University of Applied Sciences, and commissioned by the International...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/future-fuel-demand-for-shipping-industry-equal-to-entire-current-global-production-of-renewables/

Shipping industry signs up to decarbonisation by 2050

Pictured: carbon dioxide bubbles in a fluid. Credit: Spiff via Wikipedia

Signatories of the Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonization urge world leaders to align shipping with the Paris Agreement temperature goal.

The private sector is already taking important steps to decarbonize global supply chains. Now governments must deliver the policies that will supercharge the transition and make zero emission shipping the default choice by 2030.

Full decarbonization of international shipping is urgent...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/shipping-industry-signs-up-to-decarbonisation-by-2050/

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