News / Cleaner shipping should be powered by port optimisation, says PortXChange

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Cleaner shipping should be powered by port optimisation, rather than the currently favoured slow-steaming strategy for reducing ship emissions and navigating the IMO’s CII regulation.

So says PortXChange, a port-call optimisation spin-off from the Port of Rotterdam Authority.

Highlighting recent findings by SSY and Clarksons, which indicate that assumptions of fuel savings at the lower end of ship speed have been overstated, compared with real-world findings, PortXChange said they “challenge the assumptions underlying the International Maritime ...