Swiss turbocharger producer Accelleron has unveiled its first report on maritime decarbonization with a call on the shipping industry to join the global hydrogen economy by working with other sectors to pool demand for carbon-neutral fuels.
In the report, Deadlock: What’s Stopping Shipping’s Carbon-Neutral Fuel Transition? the company argues that “viral” efficiency measures such as vessel retrofits and digital solutions across the largest ships in the global fleet should be enough to reach the IMO’s carbon reduction targets for 2030. However, for deeper decarbonization leading to net zero, shipping will need to switch to green hydrogen-based fuels, which today are scarce and prohibitively expensive.