With decarbonisation much in the public eye, shipping is currently and perhaps belatedly trying to find the best pathway to carbon neutral fuels. Shipping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proportion of global GHG anthropogenic emissions increased from 2.76% in 2012 to 2.89% in 2018, according to the Fourth IMO GHG Study 2020[1]. To put this into proportion, if shipping were a country it would rank as the sixth largest GHG emitter between Japan in fifth place and Germany, according to the World Economic Forum in 2018[2]. As an industry, it should therefore be giving GHG emissions as much attention as given to it by these two countries.
A feature of ships is their relative longevity. A ship ordered today will be delivered two to three years later and then be operating for twenty to thirty years – potentially past the generally accepted deadline of 2050 for achieving…
Carbon neutral shipping – it all comes down to green hydrogen, and lots of it
