Shipping: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 8th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the status is of each project funded through the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023

The Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC) has thus far awarded over £95m to 105 projects since 2021.

The first round, CMDC1, allocated £23m to 55 projects, which delivered feasibility studies and technology trials between September 2021 – March 2022. A summary of the projects and their outcomes can be found here.

CMDC2 allocated £12m to 31 projects to deliver feasibility studies and pre-deployment trials between January – August 2023. 25 projects completed by August 2023. Six projects received project extensions and completed by November 2023.

CMDC3 allocated £60m to 19 projects to deliver technology and system demonstrations between April 2023 – March 2025. 16 projects have commenced work and are due to complete by March 2025. Three projects did not commence the delivery phase, due to issues they encountered during project set up. No grant funding was paid out to these projects, and the funding will be utilised elsewhere in the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) programme.

CMDC4 was launched in July 2023 with a budget of £34m. The application window closed on 27 September 2023 and winning projects will be announced in early 2024.

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