Shipping’s road to decarbonisation will inevitably involve both newbuildings and green retrofits of existing vessels.
And both pathways have their passionate advocates in the industry.
Andre Risholm, founder and chief executive of Norwegian ammonia shipping start-up Amon Maritime, is firmly in the newbuilding camp.
He told Norway’s Nor-Shipping conference: “I’ve worked for a shipowner on retrofit projects and it was always a nightmare.