The Wärtsilä technology group has won a major contract to supply and build a CO2-neutral liquid transport fuel production plant. The plant will liquefy gas from the natural gas network to produce carbon neutral LNG. It will have a capacity of approximately 100,000 tons per year and will be located in Cologne, Germany. The order from Wärtsilä was placed in September 2020.

The Charter on the Shipping of Goods sets a new benchmark for responsible shipping, transparent climate reporting and improved decision-making in line with the United Nations decarbonization goals. A group of the world's largest energy, agriculture, mining and commodity trading companies will assess and disclose the climate alignment of their shipping activities for the first time.

A prototype fuel cell that will be able to use different fuels - including green ammonia and LNG - will be tested at the Norwegian Sustainable Energy catapult center before being installed on an Odfjell chemical tanker.

The Observatory of Alternative Fuels for maritime transport has updated the data on LNG supplies in Spanish ports as of August 2020.

Ships are capital intensive assets with typical operational lives of 20-30 years, longer for some types of ships. Therefore, at maximum, we have only ...

With this document, the Shell company shares its ideas and the measures it is already taking to decarbonize maritime transport. Their vision is to open and explore different alternatives for this complex challenge, they foresee that there will be multiple solutions that are needed in the sector and that it will depend on the evolution of the energy market as a whole.