Maritime policy bulletin 004 covers scrubber investment and market prices.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) introduced in 2020 a regulation restricting sulphur shipping emissions to 0.5%. Rather than purchasing more expensive low sulphur fuels, a scrubber can be installed on ships to meet this regulation with conventional fuel. Scrubber installation is a shipping technology that has high capital expenditure but enhances profitability. This is due to fuel cost savings when operating the vessel or higher freight income when leasing it out. Volatile fuel prices and freight rates mean that making such investment decisions is challenging.

This bulletin is based on research on Scrubber Installation in Shipping by Dr. Yao Shi and Dr. Ioannis Moutzouris of City St. Georges, University of London.

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To read other bulletins, please see: Resources – UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub

Maritime policy bulletin 002 covers safe hydrogen storage, which will be critical across all transport vectors as well as maritime and in refuelling stations.

This summary of the innovative Microleaks-No-Burst technology for hydrogen storage developed by our researchers Vladimir Molkov, Dmitry Makarov, & Sergii Kashkarov is a solution that would meet stringent safety requirements exceeding that for fossil fuels!

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To read more on advancing scale-up of maritime fuels and their safe use please see: Resources – UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub

For bulletin 1 please see: Policy Bulletin 001: Eco-ships investment and price differentials – UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub