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Rosneft has announced that a keel laying ceremony was held at the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex for the LNG-fuelled Aframax tanker, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

A new report from Shell and Deloitte has found that 95% of shipping executives interviewed view decarbonisation as important or a top-three priority, and nearly 80% said that its importance had increased significantly over the past 18 months.

The battery-powered vessel, which also features solar panels to support recharging, is designed for the surveillance of offshore structures such as wind farms and substation platforms.

SwiftBulk Holding is using the FUELTRAX electronic fuel monitoring system (EFMS) on its Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier vessel, the Thestelia K.

The new system reliquefies boil-off gas (BOG) onboard gas carriers and LNG bunker vessels and also keeps cargo cool under all operational conditions.

A new report from Environmental Defense Fund and University Maritime Advisory Services (UMAS) has argued that the International Maritime Organization should follow the lead taken by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in promoting the move to sustainable fuels and accounting for emissions.

Rystad Energy has said that a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic could see global oil demand in 2020 knocked down to 86.5 million barrels a day (b/d), compared to the consultancy's current base-case estimate of 89 million b/d.

Maersk Tankers’ digital spin-off, ZeroNorth, has hit the ground running with the launch of its Optimise software to help cut emissions and optimise vessel performance. As its CEO Søren Meyer tells Bunkerspot, optimisation starts with data collection – but ZeroNorth’s USP is translating that data into action.

Eleven major international companies have formed a coalition in order to ‘accelerate the energy transition in transport and logistics’ and they are now working on nine ‘concrete projects’ which include green hydrogen and biofuels plans.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will be holding an ‘informal’ – and virtual – preliminary discussion session next week on short-term measures for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships.