{"id":38817,"date":"2024-07-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=38817"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:05:46","slug":"hamburg-hapag-lloyd-ceo-thinks-out-loud-about-nuclear-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/hamburg-hapag-lloyd-ceo-denkt-laut-ueber-atomantrieb-nach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg - Hapag-Lloyd CEO thinks out loud about nuclear propulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world's fifth-largest shipping company has committed to reducing its absolute greenhouse gas emissions by around a third by 2030 and to net-zero fleet operations by 2045.<\/p>\n<p>This is to be achieved through the modernisation of the fleet, new drive technologies and research into and procurement of CO2-neutral alternative fuels (e-fuels), such as \"green\" methanol.<\/p>\n<p>Hapag-Lloyd has been modernising and expanding its fleet for years. In total <a href=\"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/hapag-lloyd-orders-further-container-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 new large container ships ordered<\/a> (see marineforum.online from 23 June 2021), which can be operated with modern and efficient high-pressure dual-fuel engines and are already running.<\/p>\n<p>A study is currently also being conducted into <a href=\"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/hamburg-hapag-lloyd-plans-sailing-container-ships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Sailing container ships\" with methanol engines<\/a> (see marineforum.online from 18.12.2023).<\/p>\n<p>In order to reduce fuel costs and CO2 emissions, the fleet has already been travelling at an average of 1.0 to 1.5 knots slower for more than a year and a half, the company announced. Hapag-Lloyd can therefore envisage the entire range of alternative propulsion systems: So also nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear reactors have a certain potential because they can make an important contribution to decarbonisation. The costs would probably be acceptable and the ships could sail a little faster again. According to the head of Hapag-Lloyd, we do not want to rule this out until it has been thoroughly investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Modern nuclear liquid salt reactors are not comparable with the military facilities on aircraft carriers, and it will be years before we know whether nuclear propulsion is actually a realistic option. We may not even know until the next decade, according to the shipping company.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hapag-Lloyd, it has over 280 container ships, a huge technological challenge for the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>kdk<\/p>\n<p>Source: ndr<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die weltweit f\u00fcnftgr\u00f6\u00dfte Reederei hat sich verpflichtet, die absoluten Treibhausgasemissionen bis 2030 um rund ein Drittel und bis 2045 auf einen Netto-Null-Flottenbetrieb zu reduzieren. Dies soll durch die Modernisierung der Flotte, neue Antriebstechnologien sowie Erforschung und Beschaffung von CO2-neutral hergestellten alternativen Kraftstoffen (E-Fuels), wie \u201egr\u00fcnem\u201c Methanol, erreicht werden. Bereits seit Jahren baut Hapag-Lloyd seine Flotte [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,42,48],"tags":[2993,7664,1004,112,7653,712,2801,7652,7665,7651],"class_list":["post-38817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologie-news","category-news","category-schifffahrt-news","tag-alternative-kraftstoffe","tag-atomantrieb","tag-dekarbonisierung","tag-flugzeugtraeger","tag-greenshipping","tag-hapag-lloyd","tag-modernisierung","tag-nukleare-antriebe","tag-salzreaktor","tag-treibhausgasreduktion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49602,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38817\/revisions\/49602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}