Just in time makes all the difference

About the decarbonisation challenge facing the industry we can say two things. The long run will be about clean fuels which don’t at present exist in enough quantity to be useful, so the short term is all about vessel efficiency.

Until now these efforts have been based more on individual actions than systemic changes, where a more concentrated impact can be made. As the latest short term action brief from the Global Maritime Forum makes clear, large scale improvements will be hard to achieve unless there is concerted, co-ordinated action.

Solutions at fleet level can deliver efficiencies across a shipping ecosystem, but system-level shifts require multilateral solutions and collaboration between stakeholders across the value chain.

Approaches to reduce GHG emissions using Just In Time Arrival are becoming well known, not least thanks to Voyager’s partnership with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

JIT is often thought to offer benefits only when considering scheduled liner services for which port call dates and times are likely to be the most predictable, but any system where delays and queues are common can be improved.

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