An assessment from DNV has confirmed Carbon Ridge’s centrifugal onboard carbon capture (OCCS) system can reach CO2 capture rates of as high as 98%, The system was deployed on an LR2 product tanker owned by Scorpio Tankers Inc. According to Santa Monica-based Carbon Ridge, it marks the first maritime deployment of a centrifugal OCCS system. The results were reached using data gathered over a scheduled five-month pilot period, which, as previously reported by ship.energy, commenced last July at Besiktas Shipyard in Türkiye, on the 109,999 DWT, 2015-built STI Spiga as the vessel undertook regular commercial operations. In a statement issued today […]

Japanese classification society ClassNK has revised its guidelines for onboard CO2 capture and storage systems (OCCS) in order to reflect the growing interest in ‘OCCS-ready vessels’. In a statement issued today (29 May), ClassNK said that the guidelines will now ‘enable the appropriate evaluation of OCCS-ready vessel designs at the concept stage and to allow the assignment of notations’. The revised OCCS document can be viewed by registered users on the Guidelines page of the ClassNK website. Image: Shutterstock

Netherlands-based Value Maritime has announced a collaboration with Greece’s Neptune Lines through which it will retrofit two pure car carrier vessels with its carbon capture-ready Filtree SOx scrubber. The installations will mark the first time Value Maritime’s technology will be fitted on pure car carrier vessels, with units installed on the Neptune Tharros and Neptune Ethos, each with a 4,700 RT capacity. In a statement sent to ship.energy today (28 May), Value Maritime said Neptune Lines has selected the 15MW configuration of the Filtree system, with installations planned for summer 2026 in the Mediterranean. ‘Just like Neptune Lines, we are passionate about making […]