Norwegian shipowners agree: the obsession with new fuels is eliding a valuable discussion of the potential of fuel efficiency. The Aurora-class has enabled Höegh Autoliners to reduce emissions by around 58% per
Norwegian shipowners agree: the obsession with new fuels is eliding a valuable discussion of the potential of fuel efficiency. The Aurora-class has enabled Höegh Autoliners to reduce emissions by around 58% per car carried, “before we even use low carbon fuels,” CEO Andreas Enger said. “The debate between energy efficiency and the fuel transition, we consider to be irrelevant and pretty stupid,” he said. “It’s a no-brainer for a shipowner to do everything they can to reduce fuel consumption.
“Fuel efficiency itself will yield substantial improvements, it doesn’t bring us to our 2040 goal of being carbon neutral… [but] it will remain very important for new fuels, because they're going to be more expensive -- you don't want to use too much of them.”
No one is embracing this philosophy quite like Odfjell. With some 140 efficiency retrofits applied across its fleet of 70 vessels, the tanker company claims to have achieved a 53% reduction of CO2 emissions, compared with 2008, across its entire fleet.
“We have, since 2007, collected good, high-quality data from our ships,” said Erik Hjortland, Technology Vice President. “Nothing fancy – a noon report is good enough, believe it or not. In 2014 we built a
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