The first annual emissions reporting and verification period for FuelEU Maritime (FEUM) closed on 30 April this year. The end of this element of the compliance process offers an opportunity to take stock of how vessel pooling, which enables under-compliant ships within a pool to achieve compliance by securing surplus from over-compliant vessels, has worked in practice. ship.energy asked some of the stakeholders involved in the administration of FEUM compliance and the operation of pooling platform markets about trends they have seen in fuel choices for compliance, the supply-demand balance for surpluses, which vessel segments struck out early to buy […]

Analysis of the mid-term landscape for post-Final Investment Decision (FID) renewable fuel supply shows that China significantly outstrips other geographies for renewable methanol and ammonia, accounting for 79% and 43% respectively of global capacity, says Vitalii Protasov, CEO of Gena Solutions. The Finland-based company offers data and analytics on renewable and low-carbon fuels and chemicals, and its CEO shared insights on the state of play for the relatively nascent renewable methanol and ammonia sectors at the recent Nordic Baltic Maritime Forum conference held in Helsinki at the end of March. Protasov told delegates that while China leads the way in […]

The European Maritime Skills Forum – a joint initiative of the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and European Shipowners | ECSA – has held its second plenary session in Brussels, reaffirming the shared commitment of European Shipowners and seafarers’ unions to address the skill challenge of the green and digital transition. In a joint statement issued yesterday (1 April), ETF and ECSA highlighted the Draghi report which found that 250,000 seafarers in Europe alone will need to be upskilled or reskilled over the next decade. The organisations also referenced the recently published European Industrial Maritime Strategy which makes the skilling of […]