Ports and Shipping - Carbon neutral shipping - it all comes down to green hydrogen, and lots of it.

Byline: S. KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI

With decarbonisation much in the public eye, shipping is currently and perhaps belatedly trying to find the best pathway to carbon neutral fuels. Shipping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proportion of global GHG anthropogenic emissions increased from 2.76 percent in 2012 to 2.89 percent in 2018, according to the Fourth IMO GHG Study 2020. To put this into proportion, if shipping were a country it would rank as the sixth largest GHG emitter between Japan in fifth place and Germany, according to the World Economic Forum in 2018. As an industry, it should therefore be giving GHG emissions as much...