21 October - 23 October
Hilton Rotterdam Hotel
ARACON 26 will once again bring together senior executives, technical experts, policymakers and innovators to discuss the ‘state of play’ for the global marine fuels sector – and with a close focus on the challenges and issues impacting the world second largest bunker market, the (Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp) region.
Ethanol as a Marine Fuel Course
As the shipping industry works toward lower-emission operations, interest is growing in fuels that can be deployed at scale without waiting for entirely new supply chains or infrastructure. Ethanol is increasingly part of that conversation. It is already produced and traded globally, can be handled as a liquid fuel, and is gaining attention as part of the broader alcohol-fuel pathway alongside methanol.
This workshop will examine ethanol’s potential in the European maritime market, with a particular focus on sustainability, lifecycle carbon performance, policy treatment, engine readiness, bunkering, and commercial deployment. It will also look at current evidence around crop-based feedstocks, food and fuel, agricultural productivity, and the ongoing improvements in U.S. corn ethanol production.
This workshop brings together leading experts from across the ethanol, maritime, agricultural, and industrial sectors to examine the commercial, technical, regulatory, and sustainability considerations that will shape ethanol’s role as a marine fuel.
Participants will:
Designed for shipowners, bunker suppliers, ports, fuel producers, engine manufacturers, classification societies, regulators, financiers, and policymakers, the workshop aims to provide a balanced, evidence-based discussion on ethanol’s growing role in the maritime energy transition.
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Global Supply, Policy & the Maritime Opportunity
Should set the fundamentals, commercial context & elements of ethanol 101.
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What the Data Actually Shows
Rather than defensively debating food versus fuel, the objective should be to put current agricultural data in front of a European audience and challenge assumptions still based on older studies and production systems.
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How the Sustainability Profile Has Changed
Centered to highlight that the U.S. corn ethanol pathway being evaluated today is materially different from the pathway represented in much of the older literature still influencing EU policy.
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EU Policy, Certification & Market Access
Even if ethanol has a competitive lifecycle CI, can a European operator actually receive the compliance value for using it?
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The focus should be less on proving that ethanol combusts and more on how close the industry is to routine commercial deployment.
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The focus should be less on proving that ethanol combusts and more on how close the industry is to routine commercial deployment.
Can ARA Bunker Ethanol Today?
The objective should be to test the proposition that ARA may already have much of the physical infrastructure required, while the larger constraint is firm demand.
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What Would Make Ethanol Commercially Usable?
This needs to be entirely commercial.
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The messaging should remain very clear, ethanol should be treated consistently as an alcohol fuel alongside methanol, rather than generically grouped with oil-derived or biodiesel-type fuels.
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