Argus Green Marine Fuels Europe Conference

Morning registration and networking breakfast

Conference producer's opening remarks

Speaker:

Emily Harris

Conference Producer

Argus

Chairperson's opening remarks

Speaker:

Hussein Al-Khalisy

Associate Editor - Alternative Marine Fuels

Argus

Keynote infrastructure panel: Getting ready for a multi-fuel future – how are ports, terminals, technology providers and storage facilities ensuring lasting competitiveness in a decarbonising industry?

• What is the current overview of port and terminal facilities in Europe for sustainable marine fuels and how are these facilities preparing themselves and ensuring their technology is ready for a multi-fuel future? How are these companies tackling complications with last mile fuel delivery in the future?
• What are the current tank storage capacities for the key fuels across Europe? What plans are there for increasing this capacity and are there any challenges for the different fuels?
• Considering onshore power supply (OPS) as a key factor in decarbonisation: what steps, if any, are being taken by these key companies to provide OPS? What are the benefits of OPS - discussing emissions reduction, regulatory compliance, energy efficiency and more?

Speakers Include:

Aukje Tops

Commercial Director

Chane Terminals B.V.

Therese Jallbrink

Head of Renewable Energy

Port of Gothenburg

Gilles Decan

Program Manager Hydrogen

Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Keynote fuels panel: Assessing the fuels matrix – considering biodiesel, methanol (e- and bio), LNG (and bio), ammonia, and hydrogen

• How are transition fuels such as biofuels, LNG, and methanol assisting with the reduction of GHG emissions in the European maritime industry? How much further can we continue with these fuels when considering bio-LNG, bio-methanol and further biofuel development?
• How is the market coping with higher cost fuels and what tools are in place to mitigate risk in this area?
• What is the current state of development – including infrastructure and predicted production capacity, engine technology development and more – for future fuels such as ammonia and hydrogen?

Valerie Ahrens

Senior Director New Fuels and Carbon Markets

Bunker Holding

Morning networking and coffee break

Shipowners panel: Fuelling the global fleets of the future

• How are shipowners evaluating alternative fuel sources and what are the benefits and risks associated with these fuels (LNG, methanol, biofuels, ammonia, hydrogen)? What considerations must be made when choosing fuel A over fuel B?
• What infrastructural and logistical developments need to be considered when evaluating alternative fuel choices? How are shipowners evaluating various vessel investment options to ensure they are set up for success long-term?
• New ship orders – what are we seeing in terms of engine-types on new order ships?

Speakers Include:

Ilyas Muhammad

Director, Head of Green Fuels

Hapag-Lloyd AG

Shintaro Takashina

Deputy Manager, Zero-Emission Fuel Strategy Team, Bunker Division

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL Group)

Argus presents: The bunkering industry in Europe – a year dominated by policy and continued regulatory pressures affecting fuels demand

Speaker:

Hussein Al-Khalisy

Associate Editor - Alternative Marine Fuels

Argus

Policy talk: Understanding the consequences of Fuel EU Maritime, the EU ETS and IMO net-zero on fuel choices

• How do all these policy developments intersect with each other? How does the industry ensure regulatory compliance?
• What are the main takeaways from the IMO’s spring meeting?
• What is the impact of these policies on fuel choices? How can shipowners and charterers use policies to optimize their fuel choices

Speaker:

Nicolas Degorce

Sustainability Project Manager

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore

Lunch

Buses depart from in front of the Hilton

Networking boat tour of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Guided tour of the Porthouse

Networking drinks reception

Networking breakfast

Chairperson's opening remarks

Speaker:

Hussein Al-Khalisy

Associate Editor - Alternative Marine Fuels

Argus

Port of Antwerp-Bruges opening remarks

Speaker:

Tom Hautekiet

Chief Business Development & Transition Officer

Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Today’s solutions: marine biodiesel as a plug-and-play solution to decarbonisation

• How is the European marine biodiesel market evolving? What is the impact of rising competition from Singapore and China?
• Has FuelEU Maritime and higher ETS costs from 2025 bolstered marine biodiesel demand as expected?
• How is rising demand impacting biodiesel availability for bunker blending and what new feedstocks are being tested as the market seeks to diversify?

Speakers include:

Dáša Mamrillová

Government Affairs Director

EWABA (European Waste-based & Advanced Biofuels Association)

Fuelling ships with LNG and the emergence of bio-LNG

• Benefitting from significantly reducing the environmental impact of a vessel and a well-developed infrastructure network globally, how does LNG fit in with future emission targets for shipowners?
• LNG was traditionally used for LNG carriers and small ferries but has now been adopted by larger vessels such as cruise, tanker, and bulk carriers. Are we still seeing long-term orders for LNG-fuelled vessels?
• Bio-LNG is gaining traction as a marine fuel – offering greater GHG emission savings than conventional LNG – what is the scale of this market and what investments are being made in bio-LNG infrastructure?

Speakers Include:

Michael McNamara

Vice President of Global Fuel Supply

Carnival Corporation

Michael Schaap

Commercial Director

Titan

Morning networking and coffee break

The growing diversification of methanol as a marine fuel

• What is the distinction between methanol, bio-methanol, and e-methanol and how does production capacity and GHG emission reduction vary across these fuels?
• What is the real size of current methanol fuelled fleets, and why is methanol often found in dual-fuel engines across all vessel sizes?
• What makes bio-methanol particularly attractive when looking to be compliant with Fuel EU Maritime and the EU ETS? What further certification issues are there to be straightened out – particularly the feedstock sourcing – before bio-methanol could be considered on a larger scale?

Speakers Include:

Joost Weterings

Commercial Director

Liquid Wind

Lana Piterova

Senior Procurement Manager, Global Fuel Sourcing and Operations

Royal Caribbean Group

Future fuels: how ready is the industry for ammonia and hydrogen?

• Chicken and the egg: we are seeing lots of announced volumes for ammonia ready for offtake from 2026 but when will we see the demand match? Will it be the marine or power industries to initiate the demand?
• What is the current state of development for ammonia and hydrogen engines in ships – when will they hit the water in large scale orders? What types of ships can be fuelled with hydrogen and ammonia?
• How ready is the infrastructure at ports and storage terminals? Considering refuelling – could ship-to-ship beat out on-shore fuelling for logistical ease?

Speakers include:

Paul Rodgers

Director Business Development

Ten08 Energy

Lunch

Who’s going to foot the bill? Bridging the economical gap to finance industry-wide decarbonisation

• What opportunity do projects such as maritime book and claim provide for helping companies of all sizes across the supply chain to afford to decarbonise?
• What financing options are available for the production of alternative marine fuels, development of new engine technologies, and purchasing of new ships? Who is providing the green capital?
• What financing options will be available across the supply chain – from engine development and purchasing, shipbuilding, and purchasing of higher-price and lower-density clean fuels?

Speakers include:

Marcello Leonardi

Finance Advisor, Corporate Finance Advisory

European Investment Bank

How are end-user shipowners evaluating the fuels matrix and what are they backing to net-zero?

• What makes alternative marine fuels attractive to large scale end-user shipping companies and what fuels are they backing for today and the future?
• How do end-user shipping companies evaluate marine fuels and placing new ship orders when considering the huge importance of a reliable network, delivery times, investment decisions and their own decarbonisation targets?
• How will the fuel premium be distributed across the value chain as we get closer to the end customer?

Speakers include:

Ivelina Georgieva

Sustainability Leader Transport

IKEA

From the manufacturer’s mouth: Developing two-stroke and four-stroke engines to run on alternative marine fuels and building ships to house them

• What is the current state of development for engines across the marine matrix?
• What is the process of developing an engine for a new fuel, and how long does the process take from start to commercialisation?
• What new orders are we seeing for 2026 and beyond?

Speakers include:

Nitesh Ranvah

CEO

21 Knots

Chairperson's closing remarks

Speaker:

Hussein Al-Khalisy

Associate Editor - Alternative Marine Fuels

Argus

Conference concludes