Mr Wang JinBao，SSNAME

To face climate warming and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the shipping industry, theInternational Maritime Organization (IMO)has set the initial greenhouse gas strategy aiming to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping at least 50% below 2008 levels by 2050 and reaching the zero carbon emission gradually.

According to the industry, the challenges of decarbonization in the shipping industry mainly include three aspects: ship energy-saving technology, operation optimization and the fuels with low-carbon, zero carbon or carbon neutralization.

In recent years, focusing on the goal of "Decarbonization", the relevant institutions in the maritime field have carried out a lot of work, including supervision, assessment calculation, and technology research and development, which have promoted the great progress of the industry. Many revolutionary products have been turned from concept into reality or is about to be launched. However, the choice of technical path has not been clear yet, and there are still disputes and differences among all parties.

In 2020, Marintec China pioneered the launch of Marine Innovation Webinars. The first series of webinars with the theme of "The Fourth Industrial Revolution of the Maritime Industry" invited well-known experts from the global maritime industry to hold four seminars on the core topics of "Decarbonization" and "Intelligence", with in-depth discussions which has attracted  the further attention of the whole industry on the two topics.

This year, the new series of Marine Innovation Webinars will continue to invite renowned shipping economist Dr. Martin Stopford to bring his latest research and insights, accompanied by leading experts from Carnival Maritime, Yara and College of Energy - Xiamen University to discuss the path to decarbonization of the shipping industry.

Martin Stopford is a graduate of Oxford University and has a PhD in International Economics from London University. Over 50 years in the Maritime Industry he held positions as Director of Business Development at British Shipbuilders; Global Shipping Economist, Chase Manhattan Bank N.A.; Chief Executive, Lloyds Maritime Information Services; Managing Director, Clarkson Research; and Executive Director, Clarksons PLC.

Martin Stopford retired from Clarksons PLC in 2012 and Clarkson Research in 2021. He is now running MarEcon Ltd, which he founded in 1997 to support maritime education. Its publications include “Maritime Economics” 3rd Ed (2009), now translated into Japanese, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Turkish. Also, many papers on shipping economics and ship finance. The company website www.mLecs.com provides a wide range of study material for lecturers, students and newcomers to the maritime industry, available on PC or smartphone.

Dr Stopford is visiting professor at the Bayes Business School, London; Newcastle University; and has an honorary doctorate from Solent University, UK. He received the Chojeong Book Prize (2005); Lloyds List Lifetime Achievement Award (2010); Seatrade Global Shipping Personality of the Year (2013); The Onassis Prize for Shipping (2015); and the Capital Link Shipping Leadership Award (2016).

Christian W. Berg, Director Bunkering Market Development in Yara Clean Ammonia.

Mr Berg have over 20 years of international top leader experience from the oil and gas and offshore wind industry. His background includes hands on experience from vessels, marine consultancy, offshore chartering, and top management.

During his career he have been involved in numerous newbuilding projects, many of them with alternative fuel solutions such as Batteries and LNG. The overall focus on newbuilds have been to cut emissions and lower the fuel consumption and therefore be competitive. As such, now working with Ammonia, the CO2 emissions can be reduced to Zero.

Mr Berg joined the new division Yara Clean Ammonia in 2021 with focus to develop the bunkering market and logistics.

He is a Master Mariner and holds an MBA in Shipping and Logistics from Copenhagen Business School (The Blue MBA).

Dr. Forest (Zhaolin) Wang is a pioneer in ammonia fuel applications in China. He currently works as Professor at Ammonia Energy Laboratory, Xiamen University, China. He is the founding professor that launched Ammonia Energy Laboratory (AEL) in 2016, which is the first laboratory fully focusing on ammonia as a sustainable zero-carbon fuel in China. During the past ten years, Dr. Wang has demonstrated a number of industrial scale ammonia-fueled furnaces (coal-ammonia dual fuels, diesel/gasoline-ammonia dual fuels, natural gas/propane dual fuels), ammonia fueled internal combustion engines (particularly for trailers, tractors, and medium power ships), direct ammonia fuel cells involving high temperature solid oxide fuel cells and moderate temperature alkaline fuel cells, as well as ammonia cracking for hydrogen provision used in zero-carbon metallurgy and petroleum refinery.

Dr. Wang had worked as Hydrogen Program Director at Ontario Tech University (Canada) from 2006 to 2016. He worked as research associate in fluid mechanics and heat transfer at Microgravity Laboratory of University of Saskatchewan (Canada) from 2001 to 2004. He acquired his Ph.D degree in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University (China) in 1999.

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