It would be a mistake to place responsibility for meeting IMO’s zero emission shipping targets fully on the shoulders of the shipping industry, warns INTERCARGO, as the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (IMO's MEPC 78) debates steps to meet IMO ambitions for zero emission shipping by 2050.

PPG (NYSE: PPG) announced that Enterprises Shipping & Trading SA (EST) has selected PPG SIGMAGLIDE® 1290 biocide-free silicone fouling release coating to improve the energy efficiency and reduce the carbon emissions of its fleet.

A pioneering joint development project (JDP) to advance carbon-reduction technologies between ABS and Hyundai Heavy Industries Group (HHI Group) has taken a significant step forward by securing Approval in Principle (AIP).



SleekShip is an EU-funded project through the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Industry working group Impact Today has released its new Vessel Reporting and Data Quality white paper, which calls for the maritime sector to create a new data standard aimed at evolving noon reports into holistic vessel reports to support vessel and voyage optimisation, and therefore propel industry decarbonisation.

Hempel has had its emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

ABS is supporting McAllister on its sustainability journey withgreenhouse gas inventory and sustainability reporting services for its fleet of more than 75 tugboats, crew boats and barges.

At the Nor-Shipping trade fair, DNV presented Knutsen NYK Carbon Carriers (KNCC) with an Approval in Principle (AiP) for their new PCO2 tank system for the transportation of liquefied CO2 (LCO2).