Maritime Decarbonization: Practical Tools, Case Studies and Decarbonization Enablers

This volume analyses maritime decarbonization from various perspectives. It contains unique approaches and tools in four areas: scenarios, value chains, enablers, and partnerships.

Decarbonization has become a very important focus in the maritime industry. Anyone that delves into the topic quickly appreciates its breadth and complexity. Minimizing greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in maritime practices at large and doing it swiftly is far from simple. The Paris 2015 climate goals and the IMO ambitions may be the industry’s guiding lights. But is this enough? Probably not. At the managerial level a paradigm shift is needed: from a fixed mindset that is calling for compensation to a growth mindset that seeks to capture the benefits of decarbonization. This will require a structured approach in the form of practical frameworks and clear recommendations. In this book 75 scholars and industry and subject matter experts have joined forces to explore different scenarios, value chain designs, decarbonization enablers, and partnership models to develop frameworks and recommendations around how to effectively work and make progress. The books offers a valuable mix of theory, practical tools, and real-life cases.

Mikael Lind is the world’s first Adjunct Professor of Maritime Informatics and is engaged at Chalmers, Sweden, and the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). He serves as an expert for World Economic Forum, Europe’s Digital Transport Logistic Forum (DTLF), and UN/CEFACT. He is a well-recognized trade press author, a co-editor of the two reference books ’Maritime Informatics’, and co-author of the recently released ’Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonisation’. Together with Wolfgang Lehmacher he has been driving thought leadership by inspiring and helping the maritime industry to overcome the complexities of maritime decarbonisation through a number of articles published in the maritime and logistics trade press.

Wolfgang Lehmacher is operating partner at Anchor Group and advisor at Topan AG. The former head of supply chain and transport industries at the World Economic Forum, Geneva and New York, and President and CEO Emeritus of GeoPost Intercontinental, Paris, is advisory board member of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, Singapore, ambassador of The European Freight and Logistics Leaders’ Forum, Brussels, advisor of GlobalSF, San Francisco, founding member of the think tanks Logistikweisen, Germany, and NEXST, Singapore, and co-author of the recently released ’Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonisation’.

Robert Ward was Secretary-General of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) until his retirement in late 2017. Prior to that he was Deputy Hydrographer of Australia. For more than 20 years he represented Australia and subsequently the IHO at the highest international levels and played an influential role in the development and implementation of globally implemented digital data exchange standards for nautical charting and e-navigation services. Together with Mikael Lind, he was one of four co-editors of the two reference books ’Maritime Informatics’.