FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The American Biofuels Maritime Initiative (ABMI) has urged the U.S. government to take a leading role and highlight the role biofuels at the IMO, as it develops new global rules for shipping fuels. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, issues on 23 April, ABMI stresses that upcoming decisions by the 84th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 84, April 27 – 1 May) will shape the future of maritime energy, and that U.S. leadership is essential to ensure policies remain flexible and inclusive. RelatedNews May that more than 12,000 vessels are already compliant with FuelEU One dead and four reportedly missing following U.S. strike on Iranian vessel var jnews_module_21371500_0_6a01dea5d30b1 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21371500","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"1704,4397,2339,131","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","a