Carbon capture pilot project successfully completes its maiden voyage

Carbon capture shipping startup Seabound, supported by global shipping companies Lomar and Hapag-Lloyd, has successfully tested its carbon capture technology on a commercial containership.

The project saw Seabound and Lomar leverage a 240 m long container ship with a capacity of 3,200 containers as a real-world lab where it used Seabound’s technology to capture 78% of the ship’s carbon emissions.

Seabound’s system uses a second-generation carbon capture technology called calcium looping, which also achieved a sulphur capture efficiency of over 90%, to transform CO₂ emissions from a ship’s exhaust into solid calcium carbonate pebbles that can be offloaded at a port for reuse or resale.