Op-Ed: Asset management vital for aging global fleet
By Adam Dennett, CEO, SpecTec With the age of vessels at a 40-year high ship owners and operators need to act now and use asset management technology combined with a culture of
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Op-Ed: Exploring fuel options for newbuild vessels
By Konstantinos Vouroutzis, ABS Senior Project Manager, Global Sustainability Center Greece ABS examines LNG, methanol and ammonia as alternative fuel options for newbuild vessels in the latest technical and operational advisory. Vessel
Op-Ed: How a sludge problem becomes a decarbonization solution
By Nicholas Ball, CEO, XFuel With only 15 years to eliminate the majority of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the shipping industry is facing a challenge to deliver decarbonization at an affordable
Op-Ed: Behind the supply chain of decarbonization
By Mükremin İnan, AVS Ship Supply Global, supply services director Decarbonization dominates the maritime agenda, and rightly so. Alternative fuels, emissions targets, and retrofit strategies fill headlines and policy papers. But behind
Op-Ed: Engineering reliability at sea via smarter filtration
By Ulrich Latz, global product manager, industrial filtration; and Simone Ortner, global engineering and product manager, hydraulic filtration, Eaton Technologies GmbH The health of a ship’s propulsion, hydraulic and cooling systems often
Op-Ed: Preventing falls overboard—Industry’s call to lead
By Mike Breslin, Senior Director – Safety & Sustainability, AWO America’s tugboat, towboat, and barge industry is the safest mode of bulk freight transportation in the United States. We have significantly less
Op-Ed: Digitalization won’t replace seafarers; it will protect them
By Fabian Fussek, Co-Founder and CEO, Kaiko Systems Shipping is an industry that often prides itself on tradition. But some traditions shouldn’t continue, especially when they create added burdens on crews. Today,
Op-Ed: The impact of climate change on shipping
By Roberta Weisbrod, Executive Director, Worldwide Ferry Safety Association Ocean workers are on the front line of climate change, the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) concludes based on a massive survey conducted with
Op-Ed: Choosing rewards over risk in third-party ship operation
By René Kofod-Olsen, CEO, V.Group Over halfway into 2025 and the shipping industry continues to be pressured by the forces of transformation that surround it. Most recently, the International Maritime Organization agreed
Op-Ed: Shipping’s net zero future needs sharper signals, soon
By Dominik Schneiter, CEO, WinGD The IMO’s Net Zero Framework (NZF) represents a pivotal moment in marine decarbonization, charting a route toward Net Zero by 2050. But is it enough? WinGD’s CEO,