Hempel Showcases Marine Solutions at COP27

As part of Hempel’s participation at COP27, Alexander Enström, executive vice president, head of Marine at Hempel A/S, will join conversations on how to accelerate the decarbonization of the shipping industry. Hempel will also showcase solutions that can help achieve measurable results in that regard.

The shipping industry is responsible for 3% of global GHG emissions every year. The good news is that the necessary technologies to achieve a significant emissions reduction from shipping are already available.

“The climate crisis requires urgent action. We already have technologies that make vessels significantly more fuel efficient, preserve the marine environment, reduce fuel costs and enable a more sustainable value chain,” said Enström. “The key to fully leveraging these technologies is transparency. As an industry, we need find a way to share knowledge and data to enable a meaningful acceleration of the industry’s decarbonization ambitions.”

Increasingly, regulatory bodies are driving an accelerated decarbonisation of the maritime industry. This is what Hempel will discuss when participating in the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping event on “Regulations as a key enabler of maritime decarbonization” at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

“By applying a premium hull coating to more than 3000 ships, Hempel has enabled fuel savings of approximately 27 million tonnes of CO2* through enabling smoother hulls and reducing drag,’ said Enström. “These solutions can accelerate the decarbonisation of the shipping industry here and now and enable our customers to comply with new, stricter regulations. Hempel supports greater transparency between key industry players to drive this further and faster.”

The panel will take place at the Danish pavilion on Nov. 16, 2022.

* The savings related to the 3,000 vessel applications have been calculated by estimating the fuel savings of each Hempaguard application against a market average coating, based on market average numbers from the Fourth IMO GHG Study. For Hempaguard applications, the consumption, activity, duration until next dry dock and relative savings from the IMO GHG Study are estimated and the impact from the full DD cycle is summarized in the year of Hempaguard application, where the coating choice and thus fuel savings decision is taken.