News / Vessel pooling could halve costs of compliance with looming FuelEU regulation

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The looming FuelEU Maritime regulation will pose significant challenges and extra costs for the shipping industry, and ways to mitigate this won’t come cheap.  

The regulation, coming into force on 1 January, sets targets for the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of the energy used on a ship, with targets getting stricter every five years.

The GHG intensity requirement applies to 100% of energy used on voyages and port calls within the EU, and 50% of voyages in and out.  

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