News / NYK signs up for direct air carbon capture scheme

Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS), derided as one of the least efficient possible decarbonisation methodologies, has found a home at Japan’s NYK Line.

The line has signed an agreement with Eneos Corp for the purchase of ship fuel whose emissions would be offset by operation at Eneos’ 1PointFive Stratos DACC plant in Texas, which would generate carbon dioxide removal (CDR credits), NYK said.

While carbon capture (CCS) is generally discussed in the context of ‘point extraction’ or extracting carbon from ...