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The Blue Visby Solution targets one of shipping’s largest hidden inefficiencies: vessels sailing fast only to wait at port. Combining advanced algorithms, data sharing and innovative operational frameworks, it enables coordinated arrival optimisation at scale, reducing emissions and fuel consumption while improving efficiency without disrupting port operations or logistics.

GNV Polaris provides a real-world test of how advanced vessel design performs beyond the shipyard. By combining continuous monitoring, performance analytics and operational data, researchers are assessing propulsion efficiency during its maiden voyage to optimise engine settings, enhance sustainability and reveal the gap between predicted and actual performance outcomes today.

As maritime decarbonisation accelerates, questions are emerging over whether today’s Carbon Intensity Indicator can align with future well-to-wake emissions frameworks. Drawing on operational performance experience, this analysis explores regulatory redesign options, lifecycle assessment implications and the strategic trade-offs that could reshape compliance, fuel selection and efficiency in the years ahead.

Current carbon intensity measures can conflict with real-world operational needs, sometimes incentivising higher emissions rather than genuine reductions. By examining the gap between engineering assumptions and vessel operations, this analysis highlights critical flaws in existing metrics and makes the case for more holistic performance frameworks that better support decarbonisation goals.

Wind propulsion is emerging as a practical pathway to maritime decarbonisation, even for vessels operating on unpredictable routes. Analysis of wing sail performance shows fuel-saving estimates remain remarkably reliable over time, reducing uncertainty for shipowners and strengthening the business case for wider adoption of wind-assisted propulsion technologies.

Wind-Assisted Ship Propulsion can improve carbon intensity performance, but achieving predicted savings requires more than favourable wind conditions. Using holistic simulation and LNG carrier case studies, this research reveals how voyage planning, propulsion integration and wind management interact, providing practical strategies to optimise CII performance and maximise operational efficiency.