The Marine Fuels Alliance (MFA) has informed ship.energy that it is looking to provide guidance for its members on maritime liens in relation to bunker contracts, as suppliers report that they are seeing a ‘growing number of counterparties failing to pay for bunker suppliers’. The MFA first revealed its plans to organise a webinar and then go on to develop guidance on the subject in a notice posted on its LinkedIn feed last month. This prompted the editorial team at ship.energy to get in touch with MFA Executive Officer Anthony Mollet to find out more. We began by asking why […]

The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEst) has published analysis of the proposed Net Zero Framework (NZF) amendment options currently up for discussion at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and its key takeaway is that a ‘levy-based’ framework would be most likely to deliver on the IMO’s 2030 and 2040 emission reduction checkpoints. IMarEst has submitted its findings to the IMO ahead of the 22nd Intersessional Working Group on GHG Emissions on Ships (ISWG-GHG 22) taking place on 1-4 September with the aim of helping delegates assess the effectiveness of the measures currently on the table to keep […]

The Maritime Energy & Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence (MESD) says the results of a new study that it has undertaken with industry stakeholders has demonstrated ‘the qualified readiness of existing large harbour craft in Singapore for B100 adoption, provided that appropriate fuel-handling, storage and additive practices are implemented’. In a notice posted on LinkedIn yesterday (5 August), the MESD said that the findings of the study – which ‘evaluated fuel storage stability, engine performance, emissions and operational readiness through controlled laboratory testing and sea trials involving a tugboat and a bunker tanker’ – were ‘highly encouraging’. In particular, the […]