In the UK, Seabound announced it installed its compact carbon capture system aboard the UBC Cork, a 5,700 GT cement carrier, marking the first deployment of the technology on a working vessel. The unit is designed to capture up to 95% of CO₂ from the ship’s exhaust using calcium hydroxide, turning emissions into limestone for use at Heidelberg Materials’ nearby cement plant.
The system is housed in a standard container and can be retrofitted without major vessel modifications. The captured CO₂, in solid form, remains onboard until the vessel returns to port. There, it will be used as feedstock for Heidelberg’s Brevik plant, which is already equipped with an industrial-scale carbon capture facility.
“This project brings us one step closer to also decarbonizing the logistics/transport part of our operations,” said Lars Erik Marcussen, logistics project manager at Heidelberg Materials Northern Europe.
The installation follows earlier trials with Hapag-Lloyd and Lomar Shipping and is backed by the Eurostars program under Horizon Europe. By avoiding onboard liquefaction, the system lowers energy demand and sidesteps the infrastructure barriers that have hindered ship-based carbon capture at scale.
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Category: Sustainable Marine Fuels
