Maersk Tankers and Cargill are launching a new joint bunker procurement service both for their own fleets and to serve third party tramp shipping and trading houses.

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.

Bunker supplier Peninsula Petroleum has launched an LNG bunkering business as a growing number of its customers take delivery of dual-fuelled vessels.

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 use of bio-LNG as a marine fuel is deemed to be a “prime pathway to carbon neutrality” for shipping, according to multi-sector industry coalition SEA-LNG.

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.

Shell has secured a LNG bunkering licence from the Gibraltar government, allowing the oil major to develop a range of LNG bunkering services in Gibraltar port.