Source: Portworld
Japanese shipbuilder is focusing on fuel efficiency and ship configuration in a drive to cut emissions and strengthen its market position.
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) believes production of low emissions vessels will give it a competitive advantage when demand for newbuildings begins to recover.
“The current status of the project is that we have managed to reduce CO2 (carbon dioxide) by close to 20%, said Inui Masatosai, a spokesman for the company.
Quoted by the maritime news service Lloyd’s List, he said: “We have made our greatest advances in our work on very large crude carriers.
“But we are also making significant progress in applying similar technology to handymax bulkers.”
Masatosai said the company’s research and development division had been working on a range of approaches to reduce CO2 from ships emissions since 2008.
They company is reported to have focused on improving ship operations, main engine fuel efficiency and ship configuration.
Reducing CO2 emissions from ships has become one of the main objectives of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). It recently agreed a package of interim and voluntary technical and operational measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and drew up a work plan for its further consideration of market-based measures.
MES has highlighted environmental issues in other parts of the maritime and ports sector.
In July, MES said it had delivered 11 low-emissions container cranes to the Port of Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia. It said the cranes could deliver fuel savings of up to 50%, cutting port emissions.
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) believes production of low emissions vessels will give it a competitive advantage when demand for newbuildings begins to recover.
“The current status of the project is that we have managed to reduce CO2 (carbon dioxide) by close to 20%, said Inui Masatosai, a spokesman for the company.
Quoted by the maritime news service Lloyd’s List, he said: “We have made our greatest advances in our work on very large crude carriers.
“But we are also making significant progress in applying similar technology to handymax bulkers.”
Masatosai said the company’s research and development division had been working on a range of approaches to reduce CO2 from ships emissions since 2008.
They company is reported to have focused on improving ship operations, main engine fuel efficiency and ship configuration.
Reducing CO2 emissions from ships has become one of the main objectives of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). It recently agreed a package of interim and voluntary technical and operational measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and drew up a work plan for its further consideration of market-based measures.
MES has highlighted environmental issues in other parts of the maritime and ports sector.
In July, MES said it had delivered 11 low-emissions container cranes to the Port of Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia. It said the cranes could deliver fuel savings of up to 50%, cutting port emissions.
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