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Rahul Kapoor

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Vice President, Head of Shipping Analytics & Research

Rahul is the Global Lead, Shipping Analytics & Research at Fuels, Chemicals, and Resource Solutions (FCRS) for S&P Global Commodity Insights. Based in Singapore, he heads an integrated shipping analytics research and data science teams. As a business lead, he is responsible for growth of analytics products in Cargo & Vessel Intelligence and Freight Market Analytics. A subject matter expert in the maritime industry and financial markets, Rahul is a thought leader with proven credentials in market analysis forecasting, shipping economics and commodity market developments. He is a regular speaker at major conferences and client events globally and is frequently interviewed by both print and visual media. Most recently, he was at Bloomberg Intelligence and earlier headed Drewry Financial Research Services Ltd. He has also worked as senior equities analyst at RS Platou Markets and Nomura. Rahul holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering from BITS, Pilani and a Postgraduate in Management from IMI, New Delhi, India.

Sessions With Rahul Kapoor

Tuesday, 28 February

  • 09:15am - 10:00am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 05:15 pm - 28/feb/2023 06:00 pm

    The Route to Carbon-Neutral Shipping and a Multi-Fuel Future

    The past few years have thrown an intense spotlight on shipping’s global role in emissions, and the industry faces a multitude of challenges in the years ahead as it moves toward net zero. The International Maritime Organization, the governing body, has set ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships, and there indeed is a strong political will to phase them out as soon as possible. The most ambitious of these targets is to reduce GHG emissions by 2050 at least 50 percent vs. 2008 levels, and there is also an intermediate target to reduce CO2 emissions by 2030. Shippers are looking to decarbonize their supply chains while container carriers are in major a transition from conventional to climate- friendly carbon-neutral fuels, having placed early bets on green methanol and bio-LNG, among others. The industry, however, will need to understand key drivers and implications of a new multi-fuel future. Future fuel availability is also a new focus in S&P Global’s latest and significantly updated 2022 Maritime Forecast to 2050 report, which outlines under what conditions each new fuel type will proliferate. What will win — biofuels, e-fuels or fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage — remains uncertain, but we can say with confidence that the future fuel market will be more diverse than today and reliant on multiple primary energy sources. This session will address the future fuel transition, what role shippers play in the supply chain decarbonization, and how the collaboration between shippers and carriers can turn this muti-decade challenge into a business opportunity. 

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