From Regulation to Strategy:

This project examines how the EU’s FuelEU Maritime and the IMO’s potential forthcoming Global Fuel Standard will influence Norwegian shipowners’ strategic choices — from fleet size and composition to technology adoption and fuel pathways. Both frameworks cap onboard energy GHG-intensity, while FuelEU Maritime also introduces on-shore power/zero-emission at berth requirements for selected EU/EEA ports from 2030. We analyse the legal boundaries, operational and financial impacts, and the evolving risk landscape for the industry.

We combine legal doctrine (to interpret obligations, liabilities, enforcement, and interactions with Norwegian law) with quantitative modelling (to compare compliance routes such as efficiency upgrades, alternative fuels, OPS investments, routing, and speed strategies). In close collaboration with industry partners, we will gather data (interviews and secondary sources), run workshops/breakfast seminars, and build logistics and optimisation models that simulate multiple implementation scenarios and their cost, risk, and competitiveness implications.