Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2024
Ferry lines embrace new technologies Small vessels, short predictable
Ferry lines embrace new technologies Small vessels, short predictable routes, regular port calls: in the ‘hard-to-decarbonise’ shipping sector, ferries could well be one of the easiest. These vessels have a disproportionate incentive to do so thanks to the IMO’s new carbon intensity indicator (CII), which favours, almost entirely, ships with the opposite operating profile. Meanwhile ferries have a set route, making it impossible to fiddle the numbers by spending more time underway in the same way that other vessels could....