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Reshaping maritime decarbonization

The trusted non-profit Book & Claim registry pushing maritime decarbonization forward, developed by Fonden Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping and RMI. Katalist provides companies with the independent, verified solutions they need to decarbonize their businesses today and take the lead on reshaping the future of the maritime industry.

Developed in collaboration with

Participants

Advisors

Aspen Institute
Smart Freight Centre
Proman
Port of Rotterdam
Bureau Veritas
Global Maritime Forum
RSB
Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation
Lloyd's Register
GMA Center (Center for Green Market Activation)
Sumitomo Corporation

Unlock access to action

Katalist opens the door to immediate, tangible action in maritime decarbonization by bridging the gap between carriers using low-emission fuel and companies aiming to reduce shipping emissions. 

Our ready-to-deploy Book & Claim platform provides all the tools, resources, and support you need to take the lead in maritime transport decarbonization.

More than

1

%

of shipping customers are willing to pay a premium for green shipping, but only 35% of customers have been presented with green shipping options.* Meanwhile, carriers often can’t find customers willing to pay the extra cost for low emission fuel on the ships where they’re used.

(*Boston Consulting Group)

How does Book & Claim and Katalist work?

What you get with Katalist as a

Savings you can see

Savings you can see

Katalist’s state-of-the-art transparency infrastructure is based on a fully documented chain of custody system designed for visibility, so you can take control over how you choose to reduce your emissions.

Real, independently verified impact

Real, independently verified impact

With Katalist’s robust verification processes, you can rest assured that your sustainability efforts are supported by independently verified data and contribute to genuine environmental change.

One accessible, unified system

One accessible, unified system

Simplify sustainable supply chain management with one industry-wide approach that’s consistent and easy to follow – so you don’t have to choose between prioritizing your core business and acting on your sustainability ambitions.

Access to a broader customer base

Access to a broader customer base

Katalist opens doors to customers who are willing and ready for your sustainable solutions. Carriers can connect with an expanded customer base immediately – united by the mission to reshape the maritime industry.

Designed to foster trust

Designed to foster trust

Developed with input and cooperation across the full maritime value chain, Katalist allows you to take the lead in maritime transformation with a platform designed to foster mutual trust and ensure that you and your customers are on the same page.

Simple tools that do the heavy lifting

Simple tools that do the heavy lifting

Katalist removes administrative hurdles for carriers with easy-to-use tools that quantify sustainable shipping outcomes with high-integrity standards, so you can focus your time and resources on developing impactful customer relationships.

What others say


"Hapag-Lloyd uses Katalist to transparently verify and allocate CO2e emission avoidance from our waste based biomethane-fueled voyages to ZEMBA members - a tangible step toward a cleaner, more sustainable shipping industry."

Milena Lohmer

Project Lead

Hapag-Lloyd

“Thanks our partnership with Katalist, every low carbon voyage is registered and certified through the platform, enabling Swire Shipping to creditably support our client's decarbonisation ambitions and deliver measurable impact in global emission reduction."

Susana Germino

Chief Sustainability & Energy Transition Officer

Swire Shipping

"A rigorous and verifiable book and claim system is critical in accelerating the early phases of the clean energy transition in the maritime sector, as it enhances transparency and assurability. ZEMBA members are proud to be among the first stakeholders putting the Katalist system to work! "

Ingrid Irigoyen

CEO

ZEMBA

"The shipping industry is now entering a new phase of decarbonization and we need to find economically viable approaches that will allow us to scale-up carbon reductions without sacrificing the industry’s operational efficiency. Cargill has been actively involved in designing a robust and transparent book & claim system for the maritime industry that will enable shipping companies offering green shipping, like Cargill, to contract with transport customers who see value in it."

Jan Dieleman

President

Cargill Ocean Transportation

"The Port of Rotterdam aims to be a front runner in the energy transition, including decarbonizing the shipping industry. We have participated in the set-up of the MMMC and RMI Katalist initiative and we fully support it. As Europe’s largest (biofuels) bunker port, Rotterdam is committed to making low carbon fuels available for shipping. This includes availability as well as supportive regulations and mechanisms. We expect the new Book & Claim system to result in a higher demand for sustainable fuels and will play a substantial role in decarbonizing shipping."

Steven Jan van Hengel

Senior Business Development Manager, Energy Transition

Port of Rotterdam

"As a committee member for the pilot, we’re pleased to see the maritime space earning itself a purpose-built registry that helps accurately track and trace the sustainability profiles of growing market-based, low emission transportation activity. Amid a swiftly-expanding suite of decarbonization options available to maritime carriers and a complex regulatory environment, Katalist conducted a comprehensive, consultative process that addresses stakeholders’ real operational needs, from data and documentation to timing and tokenization, in order to strengthen each actor’s value chain claim."

Quintin Barnes

Program Manager, Decarbonization Market Measures

Smart Freight Centre

"PSA BDP has set out a strategy to reduce emissions from freight logistics for all its customers. In addition to its recent commitment to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) it is pleased to endorse the new Katalist registry."
"As long-term project participants in Katalist, we are delighted to see it come to fruition and are looking forward to piloting its processes with our key ocean freight customers. We see the use of sustainable fuels via book and claim processes as an essential tool in the freight decarbonisation journey. This system will enable us to provide that service to our customers in a transparent and independent way, that ensures carbon reductions are achieved, certified and verified."

Dr Peggy Murphy

Global VP Sustainability

PSA BDP

"It has been a privilege to support RMI and MMMC in the development of their Katalist registry. This platform serves as a crucial link, enabling the transfer of verified emission reductions in a transparent manner between ship operator and cargo owner.
Developing a book and claim platform that is workable across the maritime value chain is not an easy task, but one which RMI and MMMC have managed to deliver, and which will act as a vital cog in supporting and accelerating the adoption of sustainable shipping."

Nick Gross

Global Containerships Segment Director

Lloyd’s Register

"MPC Container Ships ASA is proud to have collaborated on the Katalist system by the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping and RMI. This approach allows freight forwarders and shipping companies to trade with the green attributes of renewable fuels even if the physical supply isn't granted at a specific port to a specific ship, which enables immediate decarbonization efforts. We are excited to support this innovative step towards a greener maritime industry."

Sebastian Ebbing

Group Sustainability Officer

MPC Container Ships ASA

"We are pleased to see the launch of Katalist to facilitate carbon insets transactions while providing the necessary guardrails to ensure Book & Claim chains of custody are implemented with the highest standards of integrity. As a carrier, we see Book & Claim as a key instrument to support our journey in scaling up low carbon fuels by bringing in flexibility to bridge the gap between fuel supply and customer demand for low emission transportation."

Henrik Røjel

Head of Decarbonisation and Climate Solutions

NORDEN

"Green Worldwide Shipping is proud to support ZEMBA and the Katalist registry as credible, industry-leading efforts to accelerate the availability of zero-emission maritime shipping. This work is urgent and important for the international trade community, and we encourage the cargo owners and other stakeholders in our network to join us."

Anne Shudy Palmer

Director of Sustainability

Green Worldwide Shipping

"Bureau Veritas is delighted to support this pioneering initiative and welcomes the Katalist registry with enthusiasm. As an independent third-party verifier, Bureau Veritas is fully committed to fostering trust between the registry's users and ensuring the creation of high-quality tokens that reflect real and additional GHG emission reductions."

Marcos Salido

Sustainability Advanced Services

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore

"Sustainable ocean shipping must become the default option for everyone, everywhere, all the time. Achieving zero emission shipping requires collaboration across the supply chain to deploy and scale solutions with speed. The book and claim system is an important piece of the puzzle to accelerate this transition in the ocean shipping industry. In IKEA, we view the system as a temporary solution until zero-emission fuels become widely accessible for global shipping. This will enable us to ship our home-furnishing goods on zero-emission vessels only. While we are finalising the accounting criteria for book and claim setups within our business, we see this as a critical movement to support broader, faster decarbonisation across the shipping industry."

Elisabeth Munck af Rosenschöld

Sustainability Manager

IKEA Supply Chain Operations

"X-Press Feeders is honored to have been part of the development of Katalist, a pivotal tool supporting emissions reduction efforts across maritime logistics. By decoupling emission reductions from physical transport activities, this platform opens new pathways for stakeholders including shipowners, operators, freight forwarders and cargo owners, to participate in the drive towards sustainable shipping solutions. The transparency and traceability provided by this system enable greater market alignment between those who are ready to invest in low-emission options and those generating them, creating an effective mechanism to stimulate demand for sustainable shipping.
We look forward to the role Katalist will play in bridging the supply-demand gap, accelerating collective progress towards reducing maritime emissions."

X-Press Feeders

"We recognize the importance of Book & Claim to accelerate decarbonization efforts in the transport sector and are pleased to see the Maersk McKinney-Møller Center and RMI putting in great effort into building Katalist as a solution for the maritime sector."

Anne-Cécile Moreno

Head of Energy Transition Transparency and Enablement

A.P. Moller Maersk

What makes Katalist a trusted, non-profit platform for maritime decarbonization?

Independent insetting tool

Developed by non-profits with dedicated experience, in partnership with companies across the full value chain, Katalist facilitates maritime insetting in a credible and transparent manner.

No double counting

We have implemented measures to mitigate the risk of double counting, with established policies and controls through the whole process, from emission and voyage data to token transfers and retirement.

Complete transparency

Katalist tracks primary data for emissions and transport-related activity data along the full maritime supply chain. By monitoring all inputs and outputs in the supply chain, Katalist provides transparent data that enables our users to book, transfer and claim actual emission reductions with full traceability.

Open for all companies

Katalist is designed to meet companies where they are in their decarbonization journey, guaranteeing you can take real action to shape the maritime industry no matter what shipping segment you operate in. 

Open for all sustainable fuel types

By representing greenhouse gas emissions on a well-to-wake basis, we compare fuels on their emissions, not their types – opening the field for the multiple types of sustainable fuels needed to decarbonize the industry.

3rd party validated outcomes

Katalist is built on a robust verification framework requiring third-party validation of emission and voyage-related data to ensure accurate and credible outcomes.

Mission-driven purpose

As a non-profit initiative, you can trust that Katalist’s focus is on finding the best solution to propel decarbonization across the entire maritime value chain, with a comprehensive governance structure in place to allow the platform to maintain its independence, accuracy, and relevance.

No IT investment

Katalist is designed as a full-service technology platform that is ready to deploy from day one. Our users won’t need to invest further in IT infrastructure to ensure that their emission reduction data is being tracked and monitored with transparent accuracy.