Energy efficiency measures taken by the energy efficiency industry shipping to decarbonise substantial shipping fleets in the modernisation of ships and the application of specific digital solutions on larger units should be sufficient to achieve the targets for reducing 2030 ship carbon emissions set by the International Maritime Organization being able to reduce them by more than 30% by that year, exceeding the IMO targets. However, initiatives for a more that leads to net zero emissions are in a phase of stalemate. This is highlighted by the first report on decarbonisation Deadlock: What's Stopping Shipping's Carbon-Neutral Fuel Transition?" created by the Swiss company Accelleron, which is specialized in the development, production and service of turbochargers and in supercharging technology, injectors and digital solutions for the maritime and which presented it yesterday in London as part of the "London International Shipping Week".

The report notes, in fact, that, in order to move to a deeper decarbonisation, to ensure that by by 2025 the maritime transport sector will have those 100-150 million tonnes of green hydrogen per year of which will need to decarbonise, shipping will have to transition to the use of environmentally friendly hydrogen-based fuels that today are available in very limited sizes and have prices Prohibitive. The document specifies that their production is practically non-existent despite the technology to power the ships with zero-carbon fuels exists and is supported by the main shipowners. In particular, if the sectors of the shipping, aviation, steel, cement, energy and agriculture, which account for around 70% of the global emissions would require a total of around 500 million tonnes of green hydrogen per year by 2050 and nine trillion dollars of total investment for to produce it, currently only about 38 million tonnes of green hydrogen in projects supported by less than $320 billion in investments.

According to Accelleron's report, to overcome this stalemate and start a vast production of zero-emission fuel affordable carbon emissions, the shipping should aggregate demand with that of other sectors difficult to decarbonise, such as the steel industry or those fertilizers and energy production. Instead of competing for zero-carbon fuels, like many believe - the report notes - these sectors should unite the forces to transform competition into a critical mass of demand, so as to reduce the risk for large projects on hydrogen allowing them to attract sufficient Funding. "Now - underlined the administrator delegate of Accelleron, Daniel Bischofberger, and the president Medium- and Low-Speed, Christoph Rofka, in the preface to the report - It's time to collaborate with other sectors to Securing the fuels we all need to finally achieve net zero emissions".