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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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,
By Fraser Robinson, Co-Founder and CEO at Beacon July 2025 showed notable variations in global port berth times, with some significant increases at major container hubs alongside efficiency improvements at others. According