Singapore is gearing up to develop regulations and standards for safety and supply of future alternative fuels for shipping, as moves to decarbonise the industry accelerate.

Euronav boss, Hugo De Stoop, expects that a large tanker powered by ammonia could well be on the water by 2025.

AP Moller – Maersk, Keppel Offshore & Marine, Fleet Management, Sumitomo Corp, Yara International, and Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to study setting up bunkering for green...

An ammonia-fuelled tanker joint development project (JDP) based in Singapore has welcomed two new partners – the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Yara International.

Euronav has entered into an agreement to acquire two resale suezmax newbuildings that will be able to run on LNG and even ammonia in future.

A joint study is underway in Singapore to explore the potential for ammonia to be used as a marine fuel.

A joint industry project has been formed to pursue the development of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology to support the maritime industry’s decarbonisation goal.

Three Japanese firms – NYK Line, Japan Marine United (JMU), ClassNK – have agreed to jointly start R&D to look into commercialising the use of ammonia as fuel in marine transportation, as part of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Technology group Wartsila is claiming to start the world’s first long term, full-scale testing of ammonia as a marine fuel in four-stroke combustion engine, along with partners Knutsen OAS Shipping, Repsol and Sustainable Energy Catapult Centre.

Japan’s Itochu Corporation and its electric services firm Itochu Enex, along with terminal operator Vopak Terminals, have come together to study the feasibility of developing infrastructure to support the use of ammonia as marine fuel in Singapore.