We look back over our most read stories from the year to revisit the topics that your reading habits revealed as key issues in the maritime industry in 2023
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In the maritime propulsion world, Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery readers have avidly followed emerging fuels and engine technologies, with some of the most read stories this year and in 2022 featuring the development of new engine technologies such as fuel cells and new fuels, including a healthy interest in ammonia and methanol.
Another subject of interest to our readership has been the entry into force of IMO’s newest emissions regulations and newly set emissions targets. What the continuity in reading habits means, for us, is that we know what to write about. What does it mean more broadly? Perhaps that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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1. Ammonia takes centre stage as a clean marine fuel
Blue and green ammonia will become an important alternative fuel for the global shipping industry, if production can be scaled up and costs reduced. Green and blue ammonia will help the shipping industry achieve its committed goal for decarbonisation by 2050, but grey ammonia, produced using fossil fuels, is out of scope. The US$70Bn+ global ammonia market has been traditionally fuelled by agrochemicals, but that is set to change over the next 10-20 years, as shipping demand is predicted to grow sharply.
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2. Port of Singapore gears up for multi-fuel future of 2030
As shipping’s largest refuelling hub, the Port of Singapore is preparing for a multi-fuel future that will require storing and bunkering a variety of low- and zero-carbon fuls by 2030. With shipowners weighing the use of LNG, biofuels, ammonia, methanol and hydrogen as potential alternative fuels for decarbonisation, the port is ramping up efforts to make the fuels available alongside traditional marine fuels.
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3. Interim goals in focus as IMO prepares to revise GHG strategy
Governments and NGOs urge United Nations’ shipping body to set ’ambitious’ 2030 emissions reduction goals, as International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) working group hammers out draft terms ahead of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80) meeting.
IMO’s progress on upgrading its regulatory framework aimed at lowering or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping sector is under scrutiny, and the stakes could not be higher, based on language directed toward the group’s efforts by governments and environmental groups.
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4. How shipowners can improve CII compliance ratings
Shipowners need to change their operations nd improve vessel efficiency to meet the tough requirements of IMO’s Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) ratings, agreed an expert panel at Riviera Maritime Media’s How shipowners can improve their CII compliance rating webinar.
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5. Hydrogen’s progress as a marine fuel
A review of projects shows hydrogen is slowly gaining traction as an alternative fuel in the maritime industry with projects to deliver hydrogen from production to the port, for use in vessels.
In July 2021, DNV published a report on the key takeaways of the DNV-led MarHySafe project, which is a consortium of 26 companies and associations looking at hydrogen as a marine fuel or as an enabler for synthetic fuels.
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