Ocean Network Express (ONE) has successfully conducted the trial use of biofuel to power a 4,803-teu container vessel in a decarbonisation move for shipping.
Malaysia’s Petronas and Japan’s Jera Co, Inc. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the use of alternative bunker fuels such as LNG, ammonia and hydrogen.
The world’s largest LNG-powered bulk carrier HL-Green has completed its first LNG bunkering in Malaysia in operation, arranged by Peninsula Petroleum with Petronas Marine.
Container line Hapag-Lloyd believes LNG as fuel is good choice at this time with the possibility of using synthetic gases at a later date, but in the future other fuels may also come to the fore.
The question of which pathway to choose to decarbonise shipping was high on the agenda at the global maritime environmental congress (gmec) as part of SMM Digital.
The challenges and opportunities of decarbonising shipping, and the switch to new fuels were in focus among senior executives and officials speaking at the SMM virtual press conference on Monday.
Energy storage firm Corvus Energy is planning to start the development and production of large-scale maritime hydrogen fuel cell systems with Toyota as the supplier of the mass-produced fuel cell technology.
LNG as a transition fuel to reduce CO2 emissions is fast gaining traction as is evidenced by a growing number of dual-fuel newbuilding contracts and what has become a daily stream of announcements relating to bunkering and supply.