S6 Ep3: Risto-Juhani Kariranta, Chief Executive Officer, Ahti Pool

Could compliance with FuelEU Maritime be as simple for shipowners as it is for consumers signing an electricity supply contract? This is what Risto-Juhani Kariranta, CEO of Ahti Pool, argues in this week’s episode. Finland-based Ahti Pool currently brings together about 250 vessels from a number of different companies. It enables owners of ‘under-compliant’ ships, or those that fall below the GHG intensity reduction targets set out by FuelEU Maritime, to tap into the ‘compliance surpluses’ of dual-fuel vessels in the pool, by compensating them for their use of green methanol or bio-LNG. The concept works, Risto says, because both parties are set to benefit financially.In this conversation, he discusses some of the practical challenges of compliance pooling, from constant monitoring to developing contractual arrangements, and explains why he believes it will genuinely help accelerate investment in renewable and low-carbon fuels.