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Thus, Hydrogen seems only to be an option for long-haul on-route re-fuelling where adequate renewable energy is available. BEVs would have more difficulty with the long-haul duty cycle if sufficient on-route clean power was more expensive.

https://thedriven.io/2019/03/18/nikola-hedges-its-bets-on-hydrogen-by-turning-to-battery-trucks-for-beer-client/

"Drewry believes fitting vessels with scrubbers makes economic sense as it increases the probability of attracting long-term contracts."

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/why-scrubber-installation-makes-sense-for-vlgc-owners/

""For the decarbonization of heavy transport, there really is no alternative to hydrogen," Wetselaar said at one of the opening sessions of the 2019 edition of CERAWeek, a gathering in Houston that brings together several thousand of the leading energy decision-makers from both government and private industry."

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fuels/trucks-hydrogen-cera-conference

"JAXA plans to launch the Toyota rover in 2029 with plans for moon off-roading "in the 2030s." Everything is a concept at this point, except Toyota's undying commitment to hydrogen fuel cells which now, in Japan anyhow, is a national priority."

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a26800936/toyota-hydrogen-moon-rover/

"Operators with scrubbers installed will enjoy much lower bunker costs than competitors choosing low sulphur fuel oil, allowing them to offer competitive freight rates and passenger ticket prices, encouraging businesses and consumers to select their ships."

Perhaps even lower using synthetic HFO........

https://www.passengership.info/news/view,why-scrubbers-win-against-05-fuel-for-ropax-operators_57178.htm

Summary:
Hydrogen is a highly attractive, but also highly explosive energy carrier, which requires safe, lightweight and cheap storage as well as transportation systems. Scientists have now developed a chemical storage system based on simple and abundant organic compounds. The liquid hydrogen carrier system has a high theoretical capacity and uses the same catalyst for the charging-discharging reaction.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190307131504.htm

Heavy Fuel Oil Market to Witness Exponential Rise:-

“The heavy fuel oil market is expected to create substantial opportunities in the market in the coming future. There are several factors responsible for the growth of the heavy fuel oil market, such as reduced emission, safety concerns related to the environment and demand for reduced transportation cost. The key driver for the Heavy Fuel Oil Market which is the addition of new and innovative products which are energy efficient, of high quality and provide flexible solutions with advanced technologies”

Synthetic fuels?

https://digitaldaynews.com/2019/03/05/global-heavy-fuel-oil-market-to-witness-exponential-rise-in-revenue-share-during-the-forecast-period/

“In a Wednesday statement, the insurer and owner "offered a sincere apology to the people of the Solomon Islands" and said "both parties are acutely aware of the environmental damage and impacts to the local community."

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/07/asia/oil-leak-solomon-islands-intl/index.html

More of this could happen as industry frantically ferries fuel oil worldwide

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-shipping-imo/shipowner-euronav-to-use-mega-tanker-for-low-sulphur-fuel-storage-idUSKCN1QI4LD

“Japan has decided it will support the use of open-loop scrubbers aboard ships and discourage other jurisdictions from banning the discharge of water from such units as the deadline for the International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur limit rule for marine fuels draws nearer.”

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/japan-supports-open-loop-scrubbers-discourages-bans-on-discharge/

“The smarter E Europe, the continent’s largest energy industry platform, has signed a cooperation agreement with the associations Eurogas and Hydrogen Europe. Their objective is to join forces in achieving a decarbonized Europe and work together towards a future powered by renewable energy.”

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/03/20190306-smartere.html

“Dutch ship management company Spliethoff’s Bevrachtingskantoor is set to receive a €110m loan to retrofit 42 vessels of its fleet with exhaust gas cleaning and ballast water management systems.”

https://www.ship-technology.com/news/spliethoffs-retrofit-vessels-exhaust-gas/

Isn’t it odd IMO mandate switching from one polluting fuel to another. Surely exhaust gas treatment should have been the primary goal. Motor vehicles are equipped with exhaust abatement equipment so why have ships not been controlled. Have they got this all wrong?

I see from this article The Middle East are going for carbon capture from motor vehicles, interested to see how that works out:-

But diesel has proven a key cause of health-threatening nitrogen oxide pollution, which is blamed for respiratory diseases, forcing the industry to explore ways to cut emissions.

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1462626/motoring

A two-year scientific wash-water study conducted based on Carnival Corporation’s cruise ships have shown that the use of scrubbers are a safe and effective means of compliance with the IMO 2020 sulphur cap requirements.

http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/carnival-s-two-year-wash-water-study-affirms-scrubbers-are-positive-for-environment.html

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/20484-carnival-corp-releases-results-of-scrubber-study.html

“From 2018-21, BloombergNEF expect high-sulfur marine fuel oil consumption to fall by almost two thirds. In its place, consumption of ULSFO and MGO is set to increase by 2.3Mbd. We expect this to increase demand for middle distillates, which will be supportive of crude prices over the next 2-5 years.

Most ship-owners have so far steered away from installing scrubbers, favoring low-sulfur fuel to comply with the 2020 mandate. This will likely lead to higher fuel prices and increased scrutiny from ship-owners of the fuel efficiency of their vessels. Ships that are more expensive to operate and are at an economic disadvantage could make their way to the breakers yard, in turn supporting shipping rates.”

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/imo-2020-global-shipping-oil-refiners-brace-for-sea-change/

Quadrise is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a Representation Agreement ("RA") with Younes Maamar ("the Consultant"), a former CEO of the Moroccan state electricity Company, to act as a consultant for Quadrise. Mr Maamar's role will be to assist Quadrise in its pursuit of opportunities for the use of MSAR® in Morocco.

“One of the main objectives of the project is to provide both the State of California and commercial enterprise with performance data in order to assess the overall benefit of the operation of hydrogen powered trucks under real-world conditions. OneH2 is confident that with scale, hydrogen fuel can challenge diesel under a true operating cost scenario. It is expected that this data will provide on-road heavy truck fleet managers with a clear pathway to switch to zero-emission hydrogen fuel without compromising day to day operating costs.”

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oneh2-to-provide-hydrogen-fuel-to-california-port-heavy-truck-program-300807265.html

“Dry bulk shipowner Genco Shipping & Trading (Genco) announced that it has secured additional financing for the acquisition and installation of scrubbers on 17 capesize vessels.”

http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/genco-secures-additional-financing-for-scrubbers.html

“We are now getting to the point that we may have over-cooked it on the scrubber front,” said Mr Curra.

“We estimate 124 VLCCs will be retrofitted with scrubbers in 2019 or 2020, on top of the 50 newbuilding VLCCs that are due to be delivered with scrubbers.”

https://www.mpropulsion.com/news/view,scrubberequipped-tanker-fleet-may-be-too-large-to-gain-an-advantage_57083.htm

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“Precious boss Hashim calls for wider 'anti-pollution' approach to IMO 2020 sulphur rules
Politics may have kept the guest of honour away, but delegates at Bimco's conference in Shanghai found plenty to keep them engaged

Precious Shipping managing director Khalid Hashim says commercially driven pollution policy is achieving the opposite”

https://www.tradewindsnews.com/casualties/1718043/precious-boss-hashim-calls-for-wider-anti-pollution-approach-to-imo-2020-sulphur-rules

“Despite assurances from fuel suppliers over the availability of compliant fuel to meet IMO 2020 from 1 January next year, industry executives warn that logistics will be a mess and the majority of smaller bunkering ports will not have low sulphur fuel.”

http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/asia/imo-2020-majority-of-smaller-bunkering-ports-won-t-have-compliant-fuel.html