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Despite being highlighted by the International Maritime Organization’s carbon intensity indicator (CII) index, slow steaming is not a valid decarbonisation measure, two major Danish shipowners have told The Loadstar.

Due to the effects of drag, reducing vessel speeds by 1 knot produces an outsize reduction of ...

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