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Efforts have escalated in recent years in the maritime industry to shrink its carbon footprint. Such efforts have made words and phrases like decarbonization, electrification, and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction - the environmental and technical benefits and challenges to reducing GHG emissions in the industry - commonplace. "What is it going to take to transition this industry into something that doesn't generate greenhouse gases?" David Cummins, president and CEO, Blue Sky Maritime Coalition (BSMC), asked the audience at the recent Inland Marine Expo (IMX) in Nashville, Tenn. Cummins said the problem needs to be solved through an industrywide approach, and not be left to individual companies to figure out. "We had to look beyond the vessel itself, to the ports and the fuel providers, as well as the engine manufacturers and the class societies, government and academia, and other nonprofits," Cummins said during an IMX education session on "Decarbonizing Your Marine Operations." |