On a mission

The governments of Denmark, Norway and the US, together with the Global Maritime Forum and the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, will lead a new Zero-Emission Shipping Mission to accelerate international public-private collaboration to scale and deploy new green maritime solutions and enable zero-emission shipping.

Johannah Christensen, managing director of the Global Maritime Forum, said: “The Zero-Emission Shipping Mission will accelerate public and private efforts around the world to make a zero-emission fleet a reality by 2030.”

What are the goals?

The Zero-Emission Shipping Mission aims to develop, demonstrate, and deploy zero-emission fuels, ships, and fuel infrastructure in a coordinated fashion along the full value chain.

By 2030, the Mission wants ships capable of running on hydrogen-based zero-emission fuels—such as green hydrogen, green ammonia, green methanol, and advanced biofuels to make up at least 5% of the global deep-sea fleet measured by fuel consumption. By 2030, the Missions wants at least 200 of these well-to-wake zero-emission fuelled ships in service and utilizing these fuels across their main deep sea shipping routes.

The Mission will also be supported by the governments of India, Morocco, the U.K., Singapore, France, Ghana, and South Korea.

The Zero-Emission Shipping Mission is part of Mission Innovation, a global initiative of 22 countries and the European Commission which aims to catalyse action and spearhead a decade of innovation to drive global investment in clean energy research, development, and demonstrations.