Specialisation Foundation → Practitioner
Maritime Decarbonisation & Compliance
The regulations pricing shipping's emissions, and the fuels and technologies answering them.
- Courses
- 5
- Lessons
- 36
- Time
- about 4 hours
- Assumed knowledge
- None. The sequence is written to be readable without an engineering background.
A complete, free sequence on the regulatory and technological transition. It starts with the regimes that already bill shipowners, MRV, ETS, CII, FuelEU, moves to the IMO framework that will shape the next decades, and then examines the answers on offer: alternative fuels, energy-saving technologies, and onboard carbon capture, each judged on engineering rather than press releases.
What you'll learn
- Explain EU MRV, EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime, IMO DCS and CII, and how they interact on a single voyage
- Explain the IMO Net-Zero Framework and the fuel standard and pricing mechanism at its core
- Compare candidate fuels, ammonia, methanol, LNG, biofuels, hydrogen, on energy, storage, safety and lifecycle emissions
- Judge energy-saving technologies by measured savings rather than brochure figures
- Assess onboard carbon capture the way an engineer would: energy cost, space, and where the CO₂ goes
The sequence
Each course stands alone; this order is the order the knowledge builds.
Regulations come first because everything after them is priced by them. Fuel GHG intensity is the thread that recurs: Maritime Regulations, Explained covers FuelEU Maritime's limit, The IMO Net-Zero Framework covers the global fuel standard built on the same well-to-wake accounting but with different scope and pricing, and Alternative Fuels for Shipping then judges the fuels themselves on energy density, storage, safety and lifecycle emissions rather than on which regulatory line they clear. The last two courses turn back on the first: an energy-saving technology is worth what it measurably saves under those regimes, and whether a captured tonne of CO₂ counts at all is decided by the very mechanics taught at the start, under the ETS the principle holds but the monitoring and verification chain from ship to permanent storage is unwritten, under FuelEU the formula is a property of the fuel and does not see the exhaust, and under DCS and CII a capturing ship reports what a venting sister reports.
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Free Foundation
Maritime Regulations, Explained
EU MRV, IMO DCS, CII, EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime: five regulations, one storyline: first they measured shipping's emissions, then they graded them, then they priced them, and now they are changing the fuel itself.
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Free Foundation
The IMO Net-Zero Framework
What the IMO's approved, but not yet adopted, mid-term measure would actually require: a declining well-to-wake GHG fuel intensity path for ships over 5,000 GT, two-tier pricing at USD 100 and USD 380 per tonne, surplus units, rewards for zero and near-zero fuels, and what a shipowner should be doing while adoption is pending.
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Free Foundation
Alternative Fuels for Shipping
A fuel-by-fuel tour of every serious contender, LNG, LPG, methanol, ammonia, hydrogen, biofuels, e-fuels, batteries and nuclear, built on one comparison framework, so you can weigh energy density, safety, cost and availability the way an owner's technical team does.
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Free Foundation
Energy-Saving Technologies
What rotor sails, air lubrication, energy-saving devices, waste-heat recovery and shore power actually do to a ship's energy bill, and how to read a vendor's savings claim before you sign for the retrofit.
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Free Practitioner
Onboard Carbon Capture
What it takes to capture CO2 from a ship's own exhaust: the technologies, the energy penalty, the tanks, the missing shore infrastructure, and the regulatory question that decides whether any of it pays.
Who teaches this
Common questions
Is the whole specialisation really free?
Yes, every course in this sequence is free and needs no account. Open a lesson and start.
Do the courses have to be taken in order?
No, each course stands alone. The order above starts from the rules that already apply and works towards the technologies still maturing.