A new e-fuels project has kicked off aiming to develop and convert a bulk carrier to run on climate-neutral fuels.

Led by Icelandic engineering company Verkís, the European GAMMA project, initiated in January 2024, involves retrofitting a TOPIC Fleet bulk carrier with innovative technologies to demonstrate the feasibility of using e-fuels as an alternative to traditional auxiliary generators. The project is backed by €17 million from the Horizon Europe framework program and aims to address the reliance of ocean transport on fossil fuels.

Namely, to meet the IMO’s decarbonization targets for 2050, new fuels and green technologies must become commercially viable by 2030, and the only way of validating new solutions

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