• Nick Potter, President and CEO of AET, and immediate past Chairman of OCIMF, joins Paula Vieira, Director General of Environmental Policy at Transport Canada, as co-chair of the CEM-HUBS Steering Committee.

• Nick Potter, previously a member, has also been appointed Chair of the CEM-HUBS Private Sector Group

• The Clean Energy Marine Hubs (or CEM-HUBS) is a cross-sectoral public-private

platform intended to de-risk investments needed to produce low- and zero-emission fuels to be transported and used by the maritime sector.

21 July 2026, London: The Clean Energy Marine Hubs (CEM-HUBS) is pleased to welcome Nick Potter, President and CEO of AET and Vice President, Petroleum & Products, MISC, as one of its two co-chairs and chair of the Private Sector Group. He is also immediate past Chairman of Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF). He joins Paula Vieira, Director General of

Environmental Policy at Transport Canada, as co-chair.

The Clean Energy Marine Hubs (or CEM-HUBS) is a cross-sectoral public-private

platform intended to de-risk investments needed to produce low- and zero-emission fuels to be transported and used by the maritime sector. The aim of the initiative is to become the high-level platform that can catalyse and support the alignment of efort across the energy-

maritime value chain.

Nick Potter, co-chair and chair of the Private Sector Group of the CEM Hubs initiative said:

“I am honoured by both appointments. The path to net-zero emissions, and to greater energy security, will only be unlocked when the energy and maritime sectors move as one, and I will work to support this. No one organisation can do this alone, but by aligning efort across public and private sectors involvement in the value chain, we can together turn ambition into action, and deliver progress.”

The CEM-HUBS initiative includes representatives from–the International Chamber of

Shipping (ICS), the International Association of Ports & Harbors (IAPH) and the Clean Energy

Ministerial (CEM). The initiative is co-led by the governments of Canada and the UAE, with active participation from Brazil, China, Greece, Malta, Norway, Panama and Uruguay.

Thomas A. Kazakos, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping added:

“We are delighted to welcome Nick as co-chair to the CEM-HUBS Steering Committee and chair of the Private Sector Group and look forward to working together on this critical initiative. It comes as no surprise that energy security is top of the agenda for every government and currently CEM-HUBS is co-operating with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and IRENA on its global study to identify future supply and demand and defne the infrastructure