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Blue Sky Maritime Coalition “We need a sustainable maritime fuel.” – Jennifer States, VP and chief strategy of? cer, Blue

Sky Maritime Coalition tugboat for a demonstration project along the Hudson River. Amogy’s am- monia powerpack—an ammonia fed fuel cell, mountable in a container or on a skid—has seen successful trials powering tractors and trucks. At the

SHIPPINGInsight event, Amogy’s manager of strategy and business de- velopment, Gancheng Sun, stressed in her remarks that ammonia is widely available and traded with a well-devel- oped infrastructure. Fellow panelist

Captain Don Carroll, from chemical tanker owner MT Maritime, sought to dispel issues related to safe handling of ammonia, saying, “We handle it all time; we are very familiar with it.”

Nuclear power is also a potential future fuel for zero emission shipping.

On the SHIPPINGInsight fuels panel,

Meg Dowling, the nuclear programs lead at ABS, talked about ongoing ef- forts to evaluate feasibility of reactors for vessels. She suggested that “micro- www.marinelink.com MN 29|