The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is inviting Member States to express interest in receiving technical assistance for feasibility studies to support pilot projects aimed at reducing GHG emissions from passenger ships, including ferries and Ro-Pax ships. The call for proposals has been made under the IMO GreenVoyage2050 Accelerator programme. In a notice posted on its website yesterday (15 April), the IMO said that, as they are ‘public assets operating on fixed routes and predictable schedules’, passenger ships are ‘particularly well-suited to the application of zero- and near-zero emission solutions and offer strong potential for wider replication across fleets’. The support […]

The Belize Port Authority (BPA) has informed ship.energy that the country’s National Action Plan (NAP) for Maritime Decarbonization has now been finalised, pending Cabinet endorsement from the government. As previously reported, the projected investment costs for the NAP come to a total of $230 million, spread across four objectives. The bulk of the investment – $173 million – will go into ‘Decarbonizing the ports’, which will include ship-shore integration, shore power, data systems and shipyard capacity building. Around $37 million will be earmarked for ‘Decarbonizing the fleet’; almost $10 million will be required for supporting ‘Alternative fuels and R&D’, and […]

A group of U.S. biofuel and bio-LNG producers are pressing the Trump administration to help shape, rather than kill, a global framework for reducing shipping’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, arguing that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulation could represent a multi-billion-dollar opportunity for the country’s farmers and fuel producers. The Bio-LNG Maritime Coalition (BLMC) includes Ameresco, Roeslein, WM Renewable Energy, Peaks Renewables, Vanguard Renewables, and the American Biogas Council. It was formed shortly after the extraordinary MEPC session, in October last year, that was expected to formally adopt the IMO Net-Zero Framework but was instead adjourned for a year. The […]