Some signs of positivity appear to have emerged from the discussions at the 21st session of the Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG-GHG 21) at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) this week, with the UCL Shipping and Oceans Research Group noting that since the MEPC Extraordinary Session (ES.2) last October, which saw a year’s deferment of an adoption decision on the Net Zero Framework (NZF), ‘there is now a much better clarity of how the NZF could operationalise.’ As such, says UCL in its analysis of the outcomes of the ISWG-GHG meeting, published today (24 […]

As more industry stakeholders share their hopes and concerns about the outcome of next week’s MEPC 84 meeting in London, it is clear that much work needs to be done to repair the ‘damage’ caused at the fractious MEPC Extraordinary Session last October, and many industry experts are telling ship.energy that bridges will have to be built and compromises made to put the Net Zero Framework (NZF) on a sure footing. Leonidas Kanonis, Director for Communications and Analysis at the European Waste-based & Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA), emphasises the point that MEPC is ‘a process meeting, not an adoption meeting.’ […]

Titan Clean Fuels has announced that it has successfully concluded its first pooling exercise for the compliance period 2025 under the FuelEU Maritime (FEUM) regulation, with verification by DNV. In a statement sent to ship.energy today (24 April), Titan said that its first FuelEU pool included ‘several hundred vessels’, balancing out operators with compliance deficits with those having positive compliance balances. Titan added that it ‘manages the FuelEU Pooling process from end to end’ – including the provision of over-compliant LBM, accepting or excluding new vessels, and the verification of the pool by DNV – and it takes full contractual […]