Next month, the global maritime industry will descend on Hamburg for SMM, the world's leading trade fair for shipbuilding, machinery, and marine technology. This year's theme, "driving the maritime transition," puts decarbonization at the center of the conversation, and one question will be on the minds of shipowners and operators throughout the show: which climate technologies can actually hold up on board a vessel, not just in a lab?

For Bennu, that's a question we've already answered.

Engineered for the conditions ships actually operate in

Shipping is one of the harshest operating environments any technology will face. Equipment on board must, above all, be safe for the crew and the ship. It has to run continuously in tight mechanical spaces, without pulling a crew member off other duties for monitoring. It has to tolerate constant vibration, shifting temperatures, humidity, and salt exposure that would degrade lesser systems within months. And it has to install and operate within the real limits of a working vessel, where downtime is costly and space is scarce.

Bennu's methane removal system was designed around those exact constraints from day one. It is compact, modular, energy efficient, and built to integrate into real vessel operations without disrupting them. Nothing about the design assumes ideal conditions, because ships never offer them.

Proven at sea, not just on paper

That design held up where it counts. Bennu's partnership with lomarlabs produced the world's first extended at-sea trial of a maritime methane removal system, running our technology through the same conditions vessel crews face every day. 

That track record matters because shipping doesn't reward technology that only works some of the time. Methane slip from LNG-fueled engines is an ongoing, measurable problem, and operators need a solution that keeps pace with vessel operations. Our pilot is showing that our system does exactly that.

Why this matters for maritime operators right now

Methane slip is a growing climate, regulatory, and financial liability for the industry. It undermines the climate benefits LNG was supposed to deliver, and every kilo of slipped methane is fuel operators paid for but never used. As emissions reporting requirements tighten, operators need technology they can trust to perform consistently, without adding complexity, energy demands, or maintenance burden to vessel operations.

That's the case Bennu has built its technology to make: a methane removal system that's compact enough to fit maritime constraints, rugged enough to survive maritime conditions, and effective enough to meaningfully reduce emissions where it's installed.

Meet us at SMM

We'll be in Hamburg following the industry's conversations on fuel strategy, retrofit planning, and emissions compliance, and talking with operators about what our at-sea performance means for their fleets. If you're attending SMM and want to see what a methane removal system built and tested for maritime conditions looks like in practice, we'd like to connect. Reach out via email or connect with us on LinkedIn.