Maersk Tankers’ top executive has vowed to continue to promote decarbonisation in the shipping industry despite any setbacks from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Serving as the chief executive of both Maersk Tankers and Maersk Product Tankers (MPT), Christian M Ingerslev suggested that investing in low-emission shipping technology could make financial sense.

This is because he said Maersk Tankers — the world’s largest pool manager of product tankers — offers better payouts to shipowners based on the bunker consumption of their ships.