There is no silver bullet for decarbonising the shipping industry and it would be dangerous for governments to bet on simple solutions for one of the world’s most polluting sectors, according to one of the largest manufacturers of marine engines.
H?kan Agnevall, chief executive of Finnish group Wartsila, told the Financial Times that fossil fuels would for some time remain in the industry, despite a push by liners such as Maersk to speed up the use of carbon-neutral fuels.
“The danger here is to try to find silver bullets and simple solutions that we try to prescribe to everyone,” said Agnevall. “We are going into an era where there will be multiple solutions. So it’s a complex future,” he added.