As CIMAC Congress 2025 approaches next month, we spoke to Christoph Rofka (pictured), president of medium and low speed products at Accelleron and vice president of communications at CIMAC about some of the pressing issues with evolving ship design, turbocharger technology and fuel injection. He spoke to us about the focus on decarbonisation at this year’s congress, and the innovations Accelleron will present to facilitate the challenging energy transition in shipping.

With MEPC 83 meeting to discuss ways to decarbonise the maritime industry this month, one oft-cited solution is the move to lower carbon fuels such as ammonia, hydrogen and methanol. The main problem with this according to Rofka is the scarcity of these fuels.

“The industry is developing and ramping up technologies capable of burning methanol and ammonia ahead of the availability of these fuels,” says Rofka.