In the UK, Trade Winds reported that Greek owner Laskaridis Shipping is teaming up with experts at Cambridge University to study the actual decarbonization effect of new green fuels.
The partners will collaborate with Greek optimization platform Metis for the research project run by the Cambridge Center for Advanced Research & Education in Singapore (CARES), set up by the British university in 2013.
The three-way collaboration will produce data captured by analytics and performance evaluation by Metis from Laskaridis’ 75,200-dwt panamax bulker Icarus, according to the report.
The work will create an “invaluable database” for projecting ship CO2 reductions, based on analysis that goes far beyond estimates calculated on average fuel consumption and routing, the companies said.
Metis chief executive Panos Theodossopoulos said: “Consensus suggests that shipping’s carbon-neutral future will rely on a range of alternative fuels, supply chains and technologies.”
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Tags: Cambridge University, green fuels, Laskaridis Shipping, UK
Category: Research
