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17 December 2020

New climate goal: Reduce emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030

After tough negotiations, the EU countries' heads of state and government agreed last week that greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by at least…

14 December 2020

Shipping is suffering in silence

Shipping is one of the industries hardest hit by the corona pandemic. But the outside world does no…

26 November 2020

Time for a maritime renaissance

In a new article Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO DNV GL - Maritime, and Esben Poulsson, Chairman of the In…

23 November 2020

Trends come and go, research persists

Last year, ammonia was hyped, this year hydrogen. What create the trends around alternative marine…

17 November 2020

Lighthouse is among the leaders of the development

A new report from the International Transport Forum shows how the Nordic countries are leading the…

13 November 2020

Governments play a crucial role

There are no viable alternative fuels yet. And it is expensive to develop them. According to two ne…

06 November 2020

More sun and wind, but do not count out the oil

Solar cells produce cheap electricity and wind power is on the rise. There’s a lot of good news in…

03 November 2020

Oil company believes in hydrogen

LNG and biofuels initially, while hydrogen and fuel cells will take over in the longer term. This i…

22 October 2020

Nordic research programme will accelerate energy transition

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The idea behind the Nordic Maritime Transport and E…

19 October 2020

Hydrogen might not be the marine fuel of the future

Hydrogen has recently emerged as a hot candidate for the marine fuel of the future, but now its use…

15 October 2020

Don’t bet everything on one horse

Ammonia? It has potential. Speed controls? Hardly. Scrubbers? Doubtful. As a neutral collaboration…

14 October 2020

The technology is there, but who wants to pay?

Catalysts can clean the methane emissions of LNG engines. But they cost several millions SEK to ins…

28 September 2020

Discharge of washwater from scrubbers must stop

Switch to alternative fuels with less sulfur emissions or make significant investments that enable…

22 September 2020

Shifting freight movements to sea requires new thinking and major efforts

Between 5 and 18 percent of current road transport volumes could potentially be transported by mari…

16 September 2020

Oceanbird in service within five years

Lighthouse members Wallenius Marine, KTH and SSPA have been collaborating for a couple of years in…

15 September 2020

The benefit of mandatory speed reductions overrated

It is possible to save fuel, but with speed reductions well below the ship's optimized speed, fuel…

07 September 2020

Per Fagerlund improved Swedish shipping

Shipbuilding engineer Per Fagerlund has died at the age of 80. Four colleagues remember a responsiv…

All bark and no bite

Policy documents, company values and norms emphasize the importance of social sustainability. But i…

It’s gone into reverse gear

Shipping's total greenhouse gas emissions rose about 10 percent between 2012 and 2018. This accordi…

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