BIMCO contract targets split between retrofit costs and fuel savings
A BIMCO contract seeks to resolve a longstanding shipping dispute over who pays for fuel-saving retrofits and who captures the resulting savings.
The supplied article says fuel-saving retrofits can pay for themselves before the shipowner who funded them sees a return. A BIMCO contract is intended to address this divide between who bears the cost of efficiency measures and who receives the benefit.
DNV’s Maritime Forecast to 2050 includes a 5,000 TEU case involving a bow modification and a propeller retrofit. The provided text does not give further details of that case.
The article does not describe the contract’s terms, application dates or participants; the text ends while listing technical measures.
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