John Booth

Future Propulsion & Fuel Safety Team Leader

Maritime & Coastguard Agency

About the Speaker

I am the Future Propulsion & Fuel Safety Team Leader at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). My role is to implement maritime air pollution policy and advise on fuel safety within MCA and wider government. The scope of my team includes existing regulations such as SOx and NOx but also the vessel safety aspects relating to the reduction of GHGs. I previously worked with the surveyor team within MCA to support the approval of vessels seeking to use future fuels. I attend technical working groups at the IMO that relate to the safety of future fuels. I studied Ship Science at the University of Southampton before working as a naval architect in Portsmouth dockyard before specialising in small craft and later in resistance and propulsion testing.

Attending

Future fuels – Real world applications and industry learnings
Seawork - Conference Room 1

Future fuels – Real world applications and industry learnings

Wednesday, Jun 11, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Europe/London

Speaker's Sessions (1)

Session
Seawork - Conference Room 1
Future fuels – Real world applications and industry learnings
Wednesday, Jun 11, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Europe/London
Live
English

Future fuels – Real world applications and industry learnings

Future fuels – Real world applications and industry learnings
Greening operations with the latest developments in sustainable alternative fuels.

Decarbonising operations to reduce emissions and costs remains top of the agenda at Seawork. The 2025 conferences share insights and learnings on key themes that are at the forefront of discussions across the industry.  

These 2025 free to attend bitesize sessions will tackle future fuels with case studies highlighting real world applications and industry learnings; the latest developments in onshore power supply; and how AI and autonomy is helping to optimise performance and deliver efficiencies across fleet technology.

 
Seawork 2025 Jun 11
Presented by Seawork
Speakers (3)
John Booth
Future Propulsion & Fuel Safety Team Leader, Maritime & Coastguard Agency
John Buckingham
Chief Mechanical Engineer, BMT
Moderator (1)
Noel Tomlinson
Senior Business Development Manager, Commercial Maritime, BMT