A growing number of container vessels are being retrofitted to use methanol as fuel with latest move from Hapag-Lloyd for ships chartered from Seaspan Corporation.

AP Moller Maersk carried over 660,000 teu last year on vessels using green fuels last year.

Fabrication work has started on the world’s first containership methanol dual-fuel retrofit for Maersk at Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard.

Dr Uwe Lauber, CEO of MAN Energy Solutions, believes shipping is headed towards a more complex future with multiple fuel and engine types.

The world’s first ship-to-ship methanol bunkering for a very large containership, the Maersk Ane, has been carried out in Ulsan port.

A fifth of ships ordered over the last 12 months will operate on alternative fuels when they are commissioned, according to figures from DNV.

CSSC Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding have inked retrofit project to install methanol propulsion on a CMA CGM container ship.