COLLABORATING TO DRIVE GLOBAL MARITIME DECARBONISATION ACROSS THE INDUSTRY

Following last year's event, we will be co-locating the LNG Bunkering Summit with the Alternative Future Marine Fuel Summit in Amsterdam. This year’s discussion, however, will extend far beyond a comparison of fuels. The focus is now on understanding which fuel strategies will yield the lowest commercial risk under uncertain policy conditions, and how shipowners, fuel suppliers, ports, and investors can collectively shape a more stable market.

The postponed adoption of the IMO's Net-Zero Framework has deprived the maritime industry of long-awaited certainty. Without a global standard on carbon pricing, GHG reduction and emissions targets, the critical momentum of low-carbon fuels is under serious threat.

Global regulation might be on pause, but the industry – and Global Maritime Decarbonisation – certainly is not. Vessels are on order, infrastructure is being built – and compliance costs are already being levied under EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime. The absence of regulatory certainty does not stop the transition; it only increases the risk of getting it wrong.

The coming year must be used to strengthen fuel pathways, prepare for any regulatory outcome in October 2026, and ensure that investments being made today will not become stranded tomorrow.