Conference Programme

Register, collect your delegate pass, and get ready for a day of insightful discussions, expert perspectives, and meaningful connections at TMS TACCC 2026

This session explores how evolving global and regional regulatory frameworks, carbon pricing mechanisms, alternative fuel pathways, financing models, and geopolitical disruption are reshaping maritime decarbonisation. It will examine how regulatory uncertainty, energy security concerns, changing cost structures, and disruptions to global trade routes are influencing investment decisions, fleet strategies, and long-term industry resilience.

Topics will include:

• IMO Net-Zero Framework: From Global Ambition to Regulatory Reality: The latest developments in the IMO's global GHG regulatory framework, including the proposed fuel standard, GHG pricing mechanism, lifecycle emissions, chain of custody, compliance requirements, and the implications of the evolving regulatory timeline.
• The New Carbon Compliance Landscape: EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime and Global Spillover Effects: Assessing the commercial and operational implications of regional climate regulations, carbon costs, fuel standards, and the growing complexity of overlapping international and regional requirements.
• Global Regulatory Divergence: Climate Policy, Competitiveness and Investment Uncertainty: Examining the growing divergence in climate policy between major markets, including recent shifts in U.S. policy, the EU's regulatory direction, and the continuing development of global IMO measures, and what this means for investment certainty and competitiveness.
• The Price of Carbon: From Regulatory Mechanisms to Commercial Reality: Exploring the evolution of carbon pricing in shipping and its impact on freight economics, chartering, ship values, fleet investment, cargo owners, and long-term commercial strategies.
• Financing Maritime Decarbonisation: Bankability, Risk and the Cost of Transition: Examining how green finance, transition finance, blended finance, insurance, public-private partnerships, and multilateral support can mobilise capital while addressing technology risk, stranded assets, geopolitical exposure, and the rising cost of the transition.
• Alternative Fuels Reality Check: Availability, Cost, Infrastructure and Scalability: Assessing the commercial and operational viability of ammonia, methanol, LNG, hydrogen, and biofuels, with a focus on fuel availability, lifecycle emissions, bunkering infrastructure, safety, cost competitiveness, and investment risk.
• Geopolitics, Energy Security and Maritime Resilience: Trade in an Era of Disruption: Exploring how disruptions around critical maritime chokepoints are reshaping energy flows, shipping routes, freight economics, insurance costs, emissions, infrastructure priorities, and long-term investment strategies.

Connect with fellow delegates and industry professionals over lunch, exchange ideas, and continue discussions from the conference sessions.

This session focuses on the technologies, infrastructure, and integrated systems required to move from pilot projects to large-scale implementation. It will explore how innovation, digitalization, and coordinated infrastructure development are enabling more efficient, low-carbon transport systems across regions and modes.

Topics will include:

• Smart Operations & Data-Driven Efficiency: Leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and digital tools to optimize routing, reduce emissions, and enhance operational performance across fleets and ports.
• Digital MRV, Blockchain & Transparent Carbon Accounting: Advancing measurement, reporting, and verification systems through secure, data-driven platforms that enable credible emissions tracking and compliance.
• Green Ports 2.0: Energy Hubs & Multi-Fuel Infrastructure: Developing ports as integrated energy hubs with shore power, alternative fuel bunkering, storage, and grid connectivity, including opportunities to modernize infrastructure in emerging and recovering regions.
• Industrial-Scale Alternative Fuel Production & Logistics: Addressing the supply-demand gap through scalable production, global distribution networks, certification frameworks, and cross-border collaboration.
• Electrification & Intermodal Integration: Building seamless low-carbon transport corridors across maritime, rail, and road, supported by coordinated infrastructure planning and digital connectivity.
• Carbon Capture & Energy Efficiency in Existing Fleets: Assessing onboard carbon capture, retrofitting technologies, and efficiency measures to reduce emissions from current assets.
• Enabling Ecosystems: Engineering, Classification & Supply Chain Innovation: The role of classification societies, shipyards, technology providers, and logistics stakeholders in supporting the transition, including innovation in design, compliance, and system integration.