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international shipping carrier Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has forecast that
hydrogen and biofuels are to become key components of container shipping's future
fuel mix.
Speaking
at the recent Maritime Transport Efficiency Conference in Geneva,
Switzerland, MSC's executive vice president, maritime
policy & government affairs, Bud Darr said "There's
no one single solution to decarbonise shipping; we need a range of alternative
fuels at scale and we need them urgently.
"The
future of shipping and decarbonisation will rely on strong partnerships from
both the perspective of technology collaboration and procurement," he
said.
MSC
is pioneering the large-scale usage of biofuel blends for containerships and
bunkering responsibly sourced, up to 30 per cent biofuel blends on a routine
basis in Rotterdam. The large 23,756-TEU MSC Gulsun was fitted at
delivery in 2019-20 with the option to convert to LNG as a potential bridging
fuel as part of the industry's transition towards a zero-carbon future.
Fossil-sourced
LNG remains a transitional option, while carbon capture and storage, if
perfected for marine use, could be useful, Mr Darr told the conference.
MSC
noted that industry partnerships could help accelerate the development of clean
hydrogen. Despite some significant challenges to overcome mainly related to
density, volume and safe handling, MSC is in favour of further R&D efforts
to produce it in a greenhouse gas (GHG) neutral way and to develop it at scale,
along with other fuels that may derive from it, Colchester's Seatrade Maritime News reported.
MSC said it is contributing to the work of
industry groups and associations and supports their proposal to the IMO to create
a new R&D fund to support GHG reduction in the maritime sector.
The
container carrier added that there must be a massive injection of energy and
capital into R&D efforts to bring alternative fuels and alternative
propulsion technologies for deployment in the marketplace and decarbonise in
the longer term.
MSC
is therefore engaging with potential vendors to investigate new solutions that
would help to minimise and to eventually eradicate carbon dioxide (CO2) and
other GHG emissions from shipping fleets.
Source
: HKSG.
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