Tuesday, April 07, 2026
28/11, 10:11

ABS FORUM ON FUELEU Implementation and the Potential of Carbon Capture in Maritime

The forum took place at the excellent auditorium of the National Gallery in Athens and Elias Kariambas, ABS Vice President, Regional Business Development, Greece opened the event and presented the well esteemed speakers.

Marco Paviotti, Policy Officer, European Commission gave a regulatory online update and focused on the demand uptake of renewable and low carbon fuels for maritime transport- complement to energy efficiency.

Konstantinos Theocharis, ABS Engineer II, Regulatory Affairs presented ABS’ tools for such as FUELEU maritime simulator and exposure estimator.

The topic of the panel was “Are you ready for FuelEU Maritime” and discussed by Stamatis Fradelos, ABS Vice President, Regulatory Affairs (moderator), Panos Kourkountis, Technical Director, Sea Traders SA, Konstatinos Polydakis, Chief Executive Officer, MM Marine Inc. and Constantinos Capetanakis, Chairman, International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA).

In the Session II of the forum Konstantinos Theocharis, ABS Engineer II and Dimitrios Bardakos, ABS Manager, Global Sustainability referred to the potential of Carbon Capture in Shipping Carbon Capture Challenges.

Stian Aakre, General Manager, Technical & R&D, Wärtsilä Exhaust Treatment focused on Onboard Carbon Capture - Challenges and Possible Solutions.

A panel discussion Moderated by Maria Kyratsoudi, ABS Director, Business Development took place with the panelists replying on the question: Onboard Carbon Capture: Can it a viable solution in shipping's decarbonization journey.

The topic discussed Konstantinos Karathanos, Chief Operation Officer, Gaslog, Stavros Niotis, Chief Sustainability Officer, Prime Marine Stian Aakre, General Manager, Technical & R&D, Wärtsilä Exhaust Treatment, Zongfei Liu, Principal Engineer of Platform Technology, Equinor.

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