Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ('K' Line) has announced that marine biofuel was recently supplied to 'Viking Ocean', a car carrier it operates, at Yokohama Daikoku C-4 Terminal, a finished-vehicle terminal operated by the 'K' Line Group. This is the first time that 'K' Line...
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LNG IS LOWEST-COST PATHWAY TO EMISSIONS COMPLIANCE
Industry coalition Sea-LNG analysis has shown that LNG dual-fuelled vessels provide the lowest compliance cost for meeting EU and IMO decarbonisation regulations. Using Z-Joule’s Pool.FM, SEA-LNG has undertaken analysis based on a modelled mid-sized, 14,000 TEU...
ALLIANCE FORMED TO ESTABLISH SW EUROPE HYDROGEN FUEL SUPPLY CHAIN
Spanish energy company Moeve, alongside a number of other energy and technological companies including thyssenkrupp nucera, DH2, Elyse energy, HDF, Hynamics, QAIR, SEFE, SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners as well as H2med promoters Enagas,...
NESTE JOINS AHTI POOL FOR FuelEU MARITIME COMPLIANCE
Sustainable fuels and renewable feedstock producer Neste has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Ahti Pool to include Neste's EU- exposed fleet into Ahti’s FuelEU Maritime compliance pool. This takes Ahti Pool’s total vessels under management to almost 250. Ahti Pool...
UECC TO PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUEL WITH EXTENDED LBM DEAL
United European Car Carriers (UECC) has secured a major bunkering deal with Titan Clean Fuels to source liquefied biomethane (LBM) that will enable the company to reduce its GHG emissions by over 75,000t in 2025 - or around one-third of its annual direct emissions...
ALTERNATIVE FUEL BUNKERING TOOL GAINS NEW FEATURES
SGMF launched the first version of its safety dispersion tool – BASiL - in 2018, for what was then the only alternative fuel available, LNG. Since then, SGMF says the tool has become the industry standard for bunker operations. After these years of experience and a...
GASUM FuelEU MARITIME POOL GAINS A SECOND OVER-COMPLIER
Energy company Gasum has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Finnish shipping company Viking Line on joining Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime pooling service. Viking Line uses LNG-powered vessels to transport passengers and cargo between Finland and Sweden. Viking Line plans...
SGMF RELEASES BUNKERING GUIDELINES FOR METHANOL AND AMMONIA
Low- and zero-carbon marine fuel organisation SGMF has published new guides, ‘Bunkering Guidelines for Ammonia’ and ‘Bunkering Guidelines for Methanol’, as well as the ‘Emergency Response Guide for Ammonia’. At the same time the NGO has rebranded to reflect its...
DNV WHITE PAPER AIMS TO HELP REDUCE COST OF FuelEU COMPLIANCE
According to a new DNV white paper outlining FuelEU Maritime requirements and compliance strategies for shipowners, compliance with the upcoming regulations will be expensive but applying certain strategies can significantly reduce the cost. Effective from 1 January...
LNG PATHWAY STILL IN NEED OF INVESTMENT
LNG Industry coalition Sea-LNG notes that while the number of about 2,200 LNG-fuelled vessels and LNG carriers represents only ‘two minutes into the hour’ of the global fleet of approximately 60,000 deep sea vessels, LNG remains an adolescent fuel that is maturing...
FIRST SHIP-TO-SHIP LNG TRANSFER IN CANADA
Seaspan Energy has completed its first LNG ship-to-ship transfer to a containership in the Port of Long Beach, an operation which marks the beginning of Seaspan’s service offering on the West Coast of North America with two LNG bunker vessels to serve both the Long...
HOW GREEN IS BIO-FUEL?
According to the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, the shipping sector is increasingly using biofuels, such as Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME), to reduce its GHG emissions. However, concerns have arisen regarding the legitimacy of biofuels and whether they...
SEA-LNG REPORTS SUCCESSFUL BIOGAS BUNKERING IN ROTTERDAM
The Rotterdam-Singapore Green and Digital Shipping Corridor (GDSC) has conducted a successful pilot for the bunkering of mass-balanced liquefied biomethane (LBM/bio-LNG) at the Port of Rotterdam (PoR). A total of 100 tonnes of mass-balanced LBM was supplied by...