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Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2024

More owners opted for alternative fuels

February 2024 | Editor

Classification society DNV has identified several key developments on its Alternative Fuel Insight (AFI) platform during 2023. The classification society tracks both new orders and retrofits. A total of 298 ships were ordered with alternative fuel propulsion in 2023, an 8% increase year-on-year. The total is now 1,281 vessels. Methanol took number one slot for the first time, with 138 ships (excluding methanol carriers) ordered either new or as retrofits; this compared with just 35 orders in 2022....

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