ABB launches digital solution said to enable 20% fuel savings

ABB Turbocharging has launched Tekomar XPERT marine, a digital solution offering shipowners simplified management of propulsion efficiency and emissions reporting. “By enabling potential combined emission savings of up to 20%,” says ABB,

ZeroNorth claims big CO2 emissions savings for ships

ZeroNorth AS, the software spin-off from Maersk Tankers in which agribusiness giant Cargill is an investor, says that last year its platform prevented 218,000 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the

Shimpei Watanabe

Podcast: ClassNK talks Carbon Intensity Index compliance

In this edition of Marine Log’s Listen Up! podcast, we talk to ClassNK senior specialist Shimpei Watanabe on what shipowners need to do to meet IMO’s Carbon Intensity Index (CII) requirements and

Tuomas Riski, CEO of Norsepower on decarbonization financing

Op-Ed: Standardizing green finance for decarbonization investment

By Tuomas Riski, CEO, Norsepower The Global Maritime Fund’s Poseidon Principles has a huge number of signatories, which, together, have issued over $1.2 billion in sustainable maritime ship financing in 2020. Even

BIMCO develops “game-changing” shipping carbon emissions clauses

In the wake of COP26, the pressure is on for the International Maritime Organization to up its greenhouse gas reduction ambitions even further. Meantime, from January 1, 2023, IMO’s current revised initial

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Over one-third of world fleet could fall short on IMO CII ratings

Data from Ship Review, a ship ESG assessment platform launched by Berlin, Germany, based Scope ESG Analysis GmbH, indicates that, based on data from 2020, more than one-third of the world fleet

future-proof LNG carrier

JDP aims to develop future-proof LNG carrier design

Wärtsilä is working with ABS and China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (HZS) in a Joint Development Project (JDP) to develop a flexible, future-proof, and modular LNG carrier (LNGC) vessel concept. The multi-fuel electric vessel

BIMCO warns on Ukraine war impacts

New IMO regs will pose “a raft of contractual challenges”

New measures likely to be adopted at the next meeting of IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) will need to be addressed by shipowners’ legal teams as well as their technical departments.