This article handles one of the biggest problems the maritime industry has to face now and in the future: reducing the carbon and other air emissions to limit the industry’s impact on climate change. The paper discusses the following topics: the decarbonisation of the maritime industry in general; biofuels use for the transition phase, alternative biofuel conversion technology, advantages and disadvantages of biofuels and hemp as an alternative biomass resource to produce biofuels and how their properties can overcome the critics against a biofuel implementation into the shipping industry.
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