An ambitious goal toward a total decarbonisation of international shipping by 2030 has been announced at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on Monday, leading to the set up of the ‘Getting to Zero Coalition’ movement.

Ocean-going vessels going on full electric propulsion may still not be a foreseeable scenario at least in the near future. However there’s no denying that shipping has an eye on a battery-powered future, attested by an increasing interest in the...

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and three compatriot firms have joined hands to establish a new company that will develop and promote zero-emission fully electric vessels.

As the British government sets out ambitious targets for cutting emissions from shipping all new vessels ordered from 2025 for operation in UK waters should be designed with zero emission technologies.

As shipping seeks a low or zero emission future it will be looking at a multi-fuel future rather than the one size fits model of the past with heavy fuel oil.

This week’s Nor-Shipping has seen the public unveiling of a new Nordic teaming of six companies working together on a project for Zero Emission Energy Distributions at Sea (ZEEDS).

One America’s oldest tourist attractions is going electric as the new Maid of the Mist pair become the first all-electric vessels to be built in the US.

Japan’s Asahi Tanker Co and Exeno-Yamamizu Corporation Tokyo have jointly developed an electric zero emissions bunker tanker set for commercial launch in the last quarter of 2020.

A new study on how vessels can achieve zero emissions has been released by Lloyd’s Register (LR) and University Maritime Advisory Services (UMAS), showing what is needed for shipping as it heads toward the IMO 2050 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission...

New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland is aiming for zero emissions by 2040 and is looking to hydrogen power as an alternative to batteries to power terminal equipment.