Ammonia

Splitting ammonia to get hydrogen is the approach of Amogy, another startup seeking success in the transportation energy transition.

A CERAWeek panel on the shipping industry complying with IMO 2050 focused on hydrogen but in an undetermined form.

Green ammonia production emits no carbon dioxide, but it has major safety, cost and scaling hurdles to overcome.

“Enormous amounts of energy require enormous amounts of space and one thing vessels don’t have is space,” said Milton Bevington during FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon Summit.

Major Canadian trucking and warehousing company Groupe Robert is making a large investment to build Quebec’s first 3PL automated distribution center for fresh and frozen foods.

Higher transport costs are a price worth paying to cut carbon emissions, says a U.K. government energy czar. Ship owners beg to differ.

Specialist liquid-gas ocean carrier Navigator Gas evidently had a faulty compass in the first quarter of 2019 as it reported a $3.3m loss. The company attributed its results to geopolitical issues along with a variety of one-off incidents around the world. Together they tended to cause an oversupply of ships and a softening of rates in its niche-sector.

Solar fields are being used by RLS Logistics to provide power for its cold-storage warehouses, but that is really only approach the company is taking to build greener and more sustainable facilities.