News / Maersk u-turn on LNG sparks new industry impasse over greener fuel

Recent shipowner behaviour over LNG has re-ignited a clash between the fuel’s opponents and the shipping industry at large.

UCL’s Professor Tristan Smith says he is sceptical of the new momentum in LNG and that the container lines were copying one another, “perhaps because none of them are brave enough to read the IMO’s revised strategy, or really figure out what it means for rate of change of technology”.

This was “bizarre”, he said, in light ...