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  • S6 Ep5: Ingrid Irigoyen of Aspen Institute and Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), and Dr Charlie McKinlay of LR’s Maritime Decarbonisation Hub.

    S6 Ep5: Ingrid Irigoyen of Aspen Institute and Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), and Dr Charlie McKinlay of LR’s Maritime Decarbonisation Hub.
    2025/02/25
    The new edition of the ship.energy podcast features Ingrid Irigoyen, Senior Director, Ocean and Climate at the Washington-headquartered Aspen Institute’s Energy and Environment Program, who is also President and CEO of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), and Dr Charlie McKinlay, who is the Fuels and Technologies Lead at LR’s Maritime Decarbonisation Hub. The podcast is released to coincide with the launch of ZEMBA’s second tender to shipowners which will focus on 3–5-year off take contracts for e-fuel-powered container shipping, starting in 2027. A key focus of ZEMBA’s work is to make advanced market commitments for innovative fuels and technologies. ZEMBA’s inaugural fuel tender to shipowners was completed in April 2024. Hapag-Lloyd was the winner, and it has been supplying ZEMBA members with bio-LNG. Ahead of its new tender, ZEMBA drew on the expertise of Lloyd’s Register’s Maritime Decarbonisation Hub to send out a request for information to assess the market readiness of e-fuels for commercial deployment in the shipping sector from a 2027 starting point. In the maritime sector, we are hearing a lot about the need for fuel demand signals to catalyse shipping’s energy transition. New or alternative marine fuels – and particularly the very low and zero carbon variants – are expensive to produce, and we are starting from a low base in terms of their scalability and geographical availability. In this podcast, Ingrid and Charlie look at the low and zero carbon fuel demand and supply conundrum, offer their perspectives on how industry collaboration is working in practice to address this, and discuss the latest ZEMBA tender process in detail. Ingrid Irigoyen is the Senior Director, Ocean and Climate, for the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program (EEP), where she leads EEP’s work at the ocean-climate nexus and serves as a strategic advisor and facilitator for multi-stakeholder initiatives seeking to address climate, ocean, and coastal challenges. She also serves as the President and CEO of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), a non-profit organization and first-of-its-kind buyers group within the maritime sector with the mission to accelerate commercial deployment of clean energy powered shipping, enable economies of scale for new solutions, and support cargo owner engagement in maritime clean energy policy. Prior to joining Aspen in 2018, she was a Senior Mediator and Program Manager at Meridian Institute, where she devoted 13 years to the design and execution of collaborative multi-stakeholder sustainability solutions, with a special focus on oceans and coasts. Prior to this, among other positions, Ingrid was a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire. More information about the work and membership of ZEMBA can be found at its website: Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance – ZEMBA Dr. Charlie McKinlay is a researcher in the field of maritime decarbonisation and is the Fuels and Technologies Lead at the Lloyd Register’s (LR) Maritime Decarbonisation Hub, where he one of the key team leads for The Silk Alliance Green Corridor Cluster initiative for shipping focused on bunkering alternative fuels in Singapore. Charlie’s professional research expertise focuses on clean maritime fuels, encompassing the whole value chain, from sustainable and scalable supply chains to efficient onboard deployment. Charlie holds a PhD in Dynamic Energy System Modelling from the University of Southampton, where he researched into transition technologies for viable zero emissions shipping solutions, such as fuel cells, energy saving technologies, and smart energy management. The Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub is an independent, not-for-profit social purpose organisation, working towards our vision of a safe, sustainable, and human-centric decarbonised shipping industry for the benefit of society. Formed in 2020 with a grant from Lloyd’s Register Foundation, and in partnership with Lloyd’s Register Group, we are an evidence-led research and action unit. Our team of specialists in economics, fuels, risk & safety engineering, human factors, and analytics deliver research, insights, and implementation pathways to future fuels across the maritime supply chain. For more information, go to www.maritimedecarbonisationhub.org.
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    39 分
  • S6 Ep4: Femke Brenninkmeijer, CEO of NPRC

    S6 Ep4: Femke Brenninkmeijer, CEO of NPRC
    2025/02/17
    The First Movers series puts the spotlight on maritime companies that were among the first to trial and adopt new fuels and technologies.
    But rather than focusing on initial big announcements and headlines, this series asks what happens in the months and years that follow. It aims to unpack the practical challenges, tangible results, and new opportunities experienced by shipping’s first movers as new fuels and technologies become part of their operations.
    In this fourth episode of First Movers, Ariane Morrissey is joined by Femke Brenninkmeijer, CEO of NPRC, a Dutch cooperative of barge owners. The company pioneered Antonie, the world’s first newbuild inland vessel that can use hydrogen as a fuel.
    In this conversation, Femke reflects on the key learnings from the project, which was launched with a vision for the 135-metre-long inland ship, which transports salt for Nobian from its production site of Delfzijl to Rotterdam, to be fuelled by green hydrogen that is created as a by-product of salt production.
    While Antonie officially started operations in late 2023, it has not been able to use hydrogen as a fuel yet – due to delays in some certifications, engineering, and deliveries of hydrogen containers.
    Despite those setbacks, Femke is confident that the vessel will sail on hydrogen in the coming months, and the company is already working on two more projects for hydrogen-fuelled ships.
    She recognised that being a first mover comes at a price, but she believes it is worth it for the learnings gained – not only in terms of technical and engineering expertise, but in shedding light on the importance of solid partnerships to go through the inevitable ‘ups and downs’ of spearheading innovation.
    Listen to the previous episodes in the First Movers series:
    Episode 01: Rasmus Nielsen, Naval Architect / Officer, Scandlines
    Episode 02: Andrew Hoare, Group Manager of Green Shipping at Fortescue
    Episode 03: Jordan Pechie, President, Seaspan Marine Transportation
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    23 分
  • S6 Ep3: Risto-Juhani Kariranta, Chief Executive Officer, Ahti Pool

    S6 Ep3: Risto-Juhani Kariranta, Chief Executive Officer, Ahti Pool
    2025/02/04
    Could compliance with FuelEU Maritime be as simple for shipowners as it is for consumers signing an electricity supply contract? This is what Risto-Juhani Kariranta, CEO of Ahti Pool, argues in this week’s episode.
    Finland-based Ahti Pool currently brings together about 250 vessels from a number of different companies. It enables owners of ‘under-compliant’ ships, or those that fall below the GHG intensity reduction targets set out by FuelEU Maritime, to tap into the ‘compliance surpluses’ of dual-fuel vessels in the pool, by compensating them for their use of green methanol or bio-LNG.
    The concept works, Risto says, because both parties are set to benefit financially.
    In this conversation, he discusses some of the practical challenges of compliance pooling, from constant monitoring to developing contractual arrangements, and explains why he believes it will genuinely help accelerate investment in renewable and low-carbon fuels.
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    23 分
  • S6 Ep2: Cameron Mitchell, Director, Isle of Man Ship Registry

    S6 Ep2: Cameron Mitchell, Director, Isle of Man Ship Registry
    2025/01/21
    The ship.energy podcast gets into its stride in the New Year with a conversation between ship.energy’s Tom Barlow-Brown and Cameron Mitchell, Director of the Isle of Man Ship Registry (IoMSR).

    At the celebration of its 40th anniversary last September, the Registry emphasised its proactive stance on decarbonisation and crew welfare, and in this wide-ranging discussion Mitchell talks about the IoMSR’s consultancy work on decarbonisation, including a recent partnership with Berge Bulk. He also shares insights on how the Registry’s sustainability goals align with global and national energy and maritime strategies.

    Mitchell looks at all the energy options on the table – including nuclear down the line – and as technical innovation and digitalisation/AI initiatives gather pace, he emphasises that a strong regulatory framework is essential to underpin and facilitate the direction of travel in shipping’s energy transition. Implementing effective and comprehensive crew training on new marine fuels will also be critical in delivering shipping’s decarbonisation safely and competently.

    Mitchell takes a pragmatic approach to the industry’s decarbonisation – be focussed on ‘the art of the possible’ – but he also calls on industry and the regulators to keep the momentum going – it’s imperative to for all stakeholders to keep moving forward.

    Cameron Mitchell is a qualified Marine Engineer who has worked for Geest Line, Maersk and Farstad. He moved to the Isle of Man in 2001 and joined the Ship Registry in 2003, becoming Director in 2019.

    He has a Diploma in the surveying of ships and yachts and more recently he has completed the Isle of Man Government's Senior Leadership Development Programme.
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    29 分
  • S6 Ep1: Jordan Pechie, President, Seaspan Marine Transportation

    S6 Ep1: Jordan Pechie, President, Seaspan Marine Transportation
    2025/01/07
    The First Movers series puts the spotlight on maritime companies that have been among the first to take the plunge on decarbonisation by trialling and adopting alternative fuels or green technologies.
    This series goes beyond the initial and optimistic big announcements and headlines and asks what happens in the months and years that follow. It aims to unpick the tangible results achieved and the practical challenges faced by these decarbonisation pioneers.
    In this third episode of First Movers, Ariane Morrissey caught up with Jordan Pechie, President at Seaspan Marine Transportation, about a year and a half after the company welcomed the first of three fully electric tugboats into its fleet, on Canada’s West Coast.
    In this conversation, Jordan gleefully recalls the surprise on the captain’s face as the tug pulled off the dock silently, and how day-to-day work was transformed as captains adapted to operating the vessels without the usual cues provided by the engines’ sound and vibration.
    As for many first movers, the project was ahead of both regulation and of any government financial support programme. This meant that Seaspan had to complete a lengthy series of HAZIP and HAZOP to secure approval for the battery-powered vessels, but also that it didn’t receive any government funding for the electric tugs.
    Despite this, Jordan explains that the project was successful because it made financial sense, with an 8 to 9 years payback period on OpEx through fuel savings. With several new fuel and technology options emerging, he insists on the importance for first movers to develop their green projects around their own operational needs and constraints, and to anchor their decisions in real world data. In Seaspan’s case, the company opted for batteries because British Columbia has abundant clean energy, and the technology was suited for tug operations that require high torque and high power for a short period of time.
    With more green projects in the works, Seaspan’s experience also underscores how collaboration was essential on several levels: from captains feeding into the vessel design from the outset, to the shared vision of the project partners and clients, which were committed to walking the walk on environment protection.
    Listen to the previous episodes in the First Movers series:
    Episode 01: Rasmus Nielsen, Naval Architect / Officer, Scandlines
    Episode 02: Andrew Hoare, Group Manager of Green Shipping at Fortescue
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    29 分
  • S5 Ep25: Stephen Gallagher, Technical Advisor, SGMF

    S5 Ep25: Stephen Gallagher, Technical Advisor, SGMF
    2024/12/09
    Our guest this week works day in, day out, on a question that may appear technical at first glance, but will be central to deploying new green fuels in shipping: how can we bunker those fuels safely and efficiently?
    The ship.energy podcast caught up with Stephen Gallagher, Technical Advisor at SGMF, a few weeks after the publication of its first bunkering guidelines for ammonia and methanol. This milestone, Stephen says, signals that the maritime industry is entering a more practical stage in the transition to new fuels, as the first vessels powered by those fuels hit the water and more are being built.
    SGMF is hardly new to developing bunkering guidelines for new fuels. The organisation was first known for its LNG bunkering guidelines, which were launched in their initial version in 2016 and have since become a global reference.
    In this conversation, Stephen explains how experience gained with LNG was applied to developing the new bunkering guidelines, while accounting for the unique characteristics of each fuel, such as the toxicity of ammonia and the flammability of methanol.
    He believes that the new guidelines will help alleviate seafarer concerns about potential safety risks associated with new fuels, but also insists on the importance for shipping companies to foster an open dialogue with crews from the outset to build trust and ensure a safe environment.
    Stephen also highlights the need for tailored training, as seafarers must be prepared for the unique scenarios they may encounter, depending on the characteristics of the fuel type. SGMF is working to expand its guidance on training and competency in areas such as ammonia and methanol, by leveraging insights from members and fuel producers, aiming to complement STCW requirements.
    As SGMF expands its scope to include new fuels, Stephen says he is optimistic for what comes next. In his view, the multi-fuel era is an opportunity to innovate and improve practices.
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    23 分
  • S5 Ep24: Andrew Hoare, Head of Green Shipping, Fortescue

    S5 Ep24: Andrew Hoare, Head of Green Shipping, Fortescue
    2024/12/02
    First movers series, episode 02
    Andrew Hoare, Group Manager of Green Shipping at Fortescue
    The First Movers series puts the spotlight on those maritime companies that have been among the first to take the plunge on decarbonisation by trialling and adopting alternative fuels or green technologies.
    This series goes beyond the initial and optimistic big announcements and headlines and asks what happens in the months and years that follow. It aims to unpick the tangible results achieved and the practical challenges faced by these decarbonisation pioneers.
    As the series develops, we will interrogate the concept of a ‘first mover advantage’. How does being a trailblazer deliver in terms of achieving commercial success, developing cutting edge technology, and driving the energy transition forwards? With the benefit of hindsight, would these companies take the same decisions again or would their strategies be very different?
    In this second episode of First Movers, Ariane Morrissey is joined by Andrew Hoare, Group Manager of Green Shipping at Fortescue. The company made global headlines for completing trials of the world’s first ammonia capable ship, the offshore vessel Green Pioneer, in Singapore.
    In this conversation, Andrew relates how the company overcame a lack of regulatory readiness for the use of ammonia as a marine fuel. He reveals the multiple ‘chicken and egg’ situations that they faced, and how close collaboration with port authorities and classification societies was critical to obtain the necessary approvals for the project to go ahead.
    Andrew highlights that the biggest learning from Fortescue’s experience as a first mover was the importance of involving the crew from the outset, with a rigorous ‘safety-first’ approach and extensive training.
    Looking ahead, he argues that there will be a first-mover advantage, as a growing range of EU, global and national regulations will put a price on carbon emissions. He points out that this will not only make it increasingly expensive to operate on traditional fossil fuels, but also means that companies will find it difficult to secure financing unless they act on decarbonisation.
    Listen to the first episode of the First Movers series here: Rasmus Nielsen, Naval Architect / Officer, Scandlines
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    25 分
  • S5 Ep23: Steve Price, Programme Director, MAMII, SafetyTech Accelerator

    S5 Ep23: Steve Price, Programme Director, MAMII, SafetyTech Accelerator
    2024/11/25
    In this week’s ship.energy podcast we look at the issue of methane slip across the maritime fuel supply chain and, more specifically, onboard LNG dual-fuelled vessels.

    We hear a lot about the need to cut shipping’s carbon dioxide emissions but in terms of climate impact methane is much more pernicious than CO2. It has a global warming potential 28 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year timeframe, and when we are looking at a 20-year period, this rises to 87.

    The Methane Abatement in Maritime Innovation Initiative – or MAMII – was launched over two years ago, in September 2022, by SafetyTech Accelerator, which was established by Lloyd’s Register and has a mission to find and put to the test a range of technologies will measure and abate methane emissions in the maritime sector.

    To discuss the challenges posed by methane slip and the work being undertaken by MAMII, we are joined by its programme director, Steve Price.

    During the conversation, Steve explains current approaches and methodologies in measuring methane slip and the project’s selection of measurement technologies.

    He gives an overview of the methane slip abatement technologies that could be adapted for the maritime environment.

    Steve also looks at the increasingly complex regulatory environment for shipping and considers what role MAMII could potentially play in developing or harmonising a standard for methane measurement.

    For the last six years Steve has worked for Safetytech Accelerator, established by Lloyds Register, to bring innovation into safetytech critical industries including construction, shipping, ports, mining and nuclear). Challenges have included safety, sustainability and welfare. Steve has spent the last 20 years running innovation programmes for large corporates and the UK government’s innovation agency. He started his career with a computer science degree and went on to run digital transformation programmes throughout his management consulting career.
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    30 分