Ammonia, which does not emit CO2 during combustion, is expected to be used as a fuel for marine vessels to achieve zero emissions.
Uyeno Transtech is participating in a conference (international consortium) on common issues related to ammonia, which is expected to be a next-generation marine fuel, spreading into other industries such as energy, mining, electricity, chemicals, terminals, shipping, shipbuilding, manufacturing, ship fuel supply, and ship classification associations in order to achieve the IMO's decarbonization target.
In addition, Uyeno is working with Itochu Corporation, Itochu Enex Corporation, and Ube Industries, Ltd. to jointly develop an initiative to supply ammonia fuel for marine vessels (bunkering vessels) and to establish a supply base in Japan.

*Please see the press release for more information.
[Conference on Ammonia Fuel for Marine Use]
[Joint development aiming at the supply of ammonia fuel for marine vessels and the establishment of a base in Japan]

We are also a member of the Clean Fuel Ammonia Association (CFAA), which is studying initiatives from research and development to social implementation of ammonia as a fuel for thermal power plants, etc., as well as ammonia as a marine fuel (co-firing, etc.), aiming to establish a value chain from supply to use of CO2-free ammonia, and conducting technology development and evaluation, economic evaluation, policy recommendation, international collaboration, etc.

Ammonia and hydrogen do not emit GHGs during the combustion process, but they may produce carbon dioxide during the manufacturing process, and despite the best efforts to reduce GHG emissions, there are still GHGs that are emitted. There is a technology called "CCS" that attempts to achieve carbon neutrality by capturing and storing emitted GHGs without releasing them into the atmosphere.

Uyeno Transtech has been conducting research and development jointly with a shipbuilding company for the demonstration of a system to transport separated and recovered GHG to an offshore storage site and inject them into a sub-seabed storage tank at sea, as a commissioned project of the Environmentally Friendly CCS Demonstration Project publicly solicited by the Ministry of the Environment, and has obtained a basic approval (AiP) for its conceptual design of the world’s first liquified CO2 carrier (injection ship ready)

Note 4: Liquefied CO2 carrier (injection ship ready) is the name given to the CO2 transport vessel planned to be equipped with a CO2 injection system in the future as part of the Environmentally Friendly CCS Demonstration Project.