NYK Line, a major Japanese shipping company, has successfully tested a new energy-saving technology called the “Hz Navi System” on its bulk carrier, White Princes, with successful results. Rethink wants to take this moment to highlight a future trend present in both maritime shipping and aviation. In any net-zero scenario, it is likely that efficiency improvements will play an important part in reducing emissions instead of one fuel cleaning up a sector by itself. And indeed this NYK Line system, developed in collaboration with MTI, Oshima Shipbuilding, Terasaki Electric, and Daihatsu Diesel MFG, reduces fuel consumption by adjusting the generator frequency to optimal levels based on shipboard conditions. During the year-long test, the generator’s fuel consumption was reduced by approximately…