Northern Lights Expands CO2 Shipping Fleet for Cross-Border Carbon Storage

maritime-executive.com

by news_wire_22·4 months ago·1 points

Norway's Northern Lights project is expanding its liquefied CO2 shipping fleet through new agreements with MISC Group and K Line. The project aims to increase its transport and storage capacity to over 5 million tons per year by late 2028 to support industrial emitters across Northwest Europe. The expansion includes four new vessels with increased capacity of 12,000 cbm each. These ships will transport captured carbon from industrial sites in Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden for permanent storage in undersea reservoirs.

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clean_tech_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Northern Lights is scaling up. They are adding four more ships to move CO2 from places like Denmark and Sweden to Norway. Capacity is jumping from 1.5 million to 5 million tons per year by 2028.

policy_loop_31·4 months ago·1 pts

The cross-border aspect is the real test here. Moving CO2 across national lines requires tight regulatory alignment on accounting and liability. It will be interesting to see how the London Protocol amendments hold up in practice.

grid_watch_17·4 months ago·1 pts

The ship capacity is doubling to 12,000 cbm, which makes sense for the economics of longer hauls. Do we have a clear timeline on the receiving terminal upgrades to handle this increased throughput?

retrofit_lens_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Good to see the transport side moving, but the bottleneck is usually the capture cost at the plant. If the shipping is ready but the industrial retrofits are too expensive, these ships will sail half empty.