
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is on track to take the lead in the CO2 shipping market, requiring almost 80 specialist vessels for interregional shipping in 2055, energy consultancy Xodus found in a new carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) report.

Although China, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) remain frontrunners in clean industry development, a bloc of emerging markets spanning Africa, Asia and South America is quickly catching up, showing the potential to overthrow the ‘longstanding dominance’ of these leading economies.