North American SAF conference adds maritime fuels forum
The North American SAF Conference & Expo added a morning maritime fuels forum, widening its remit beyond aviation to shared feedstocks and policy.
The North American SAF Conference & Expo on August 3 added a single morning Aviation & Maritime Fuels Forum linking sustainable aviation fuel and sustainable marine fuels.
The session is built around the same bottlenecks that are slowing both sectors, limited feedstock supply, certification complexity, offtake risk and policy fragmentation. Organizers cast the forum as a place to compare aviation and maritime fuel pathways, infrastructure needs and policy levers, with lipids, alcohol-to-jet routes and thermochemical conversion among the options that can serve both markets after upgrading and blending.
That cross-sector framing matters because aviation and shipping are both under pressure to cut lifecycle emissions, and neither has a near-term electrification path. In aviation, SAF remains one of the few drop-in tools available without redesigning aircraft. In shipping, renewable fuels and other low-carbon liquid fuels are filling the same transitional role, which is why developers and buyers are increasingly treating the two sectors as parts of one market for low-carbon liquids rather than separate niche discussions.
The conference itself has been developing in stages. BBI International listed the 2025 North American SAF Conference & Expo for September 22-24, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and showed a live agenda with registration open. Ethanol Producer Magazine published a preliminary agenda for that 2025 event on July 7, 2025, then added more speakers on August 25, 2025, as the program expanded.
By formally adding maritime fuels, the conference is widening its reach beyond an aviation-only agenda and into the overlap between refiners, technology providers, buyers and policymakers. The forum gives those groups a venue to compare airport and port logistics, long-term contracting structures and the policy incentives that could be harmonized across SAF and sustainable marine fuels, while still leaving room for sector-specific certification and infrastructure rules.
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