A new maritime decarbonisation project led by the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Centre for Zero Carbon Shipping will assess the technical, financial and environmental potential of converting existing vessels to run on zero-carbon fuels
This cross-sector international project is part of the broader push towards achieving shipping’s decarbonisation goals by 2050 and is fully funded by the involved parties - American Bureau of Shipping, AP Moller–Mærsk, MAN Energy Solutions, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, NYK Line, Seaspan Corporation and Total.
Through case studies targeting container ships, tankers, and bulkers, the partners will assess the potential of existing cargo ships using HFOs to be converted or integrated with alternative fuels such as LNG and LPG, and to enable pathways with future fuels such as ammonia as well as the application of onboard carbon capture and storage.
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Centre head of onboard vessel solutions, Claus Winter Graugaard said, “To accelerate the investments in a zero-carbon maritime value chain, we have to reduce the risk of stranded assets.”
The project will also identify technical modifications of relevance for today’s newbuildings to reduce the cost of future conversions to help minimise the financial risk for ship owners.
The related safety aspects of each pathway will be reviewed, and the financial assessment will cover the conversion technology, fuel costs and associated operating costs whereas the environment assessment will cover the vessel’s greenhouse gas reduction potential over its lifetime.
“To accelerate the transition to carbon-neutral or zero-carbon fuels, it is not enough to focus solely on newbuilt dual-fuel vessels. We must also look into retrofitting existing vessels in our fleet to operate on carbon-neutral or zero-carbon fuels.” said AP Moller-Mærsk head of fleet technology Ole Graa Jakobsen.
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