Internacional

Spanish ferry company Baleària has taken delivery of Margarita Salas, its second LNG dual-fuel fast ferry. The environmentally friendly ship was handed over to Baleària by Armón Shipyards on July 5, 2024. The handover marked a significant milestone for Armón Shipyards, representing the 1,000th delivery since the company’s founding. Following the delivery, the newbuild departed Gijón and is en route ...

The Port of Singapore, the world’s busiest transshipment hub and largest bunkering port, reported a growing demand for greener fuels in 2023 as it continues streamlining efforts towards a multi-fuel future. Bunker sales in Singapore reached a record 51.8 million tonnes in 2023, surpassing the previous high, with alternative fuels accounting for 1.2% of the sales, according to MPA. As a ...

Improving shipyard capacity will be crucial to enable thousands of green ships to join the global fleet in the next two and a half decades, a new report found. It is estimated that over 3,500 ships must be built or refitted annually until 2050, yet the number of shipyards more than halved between 2007 and 2022. Shipping contributes around 3% of global emissions caused ...

Swedish supplier of marine fuels ScanOcean and Lakeway Link, a joint venture of Wallenius and Greencarrier Group, have partnered on the use of new marine fuel with 15% renewable content, B15-DMA. Under the agreement signed by the partners, ScanOcean will supply the B15-DMA fuel for Lakeway Link’s new roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) service connecting Södertälje, Sweden, and Gdynia, Poland. According to ScanOcean, ...

Peel Ports Group, a major UK port operator, and NatPower Marine, an independent clean energy enabler for the maritime sector, have revealed plans to establish the first green shipping corridors between Ireland and the UK. The proposed project would see NatPower Marine develop the UK’s first commercial electric ship (e-ship) charging network to support electric propulsion and cold ironing, as part of ...

Japan’s Mitsui E&S and its U.S. subsidiary PACECO have announced the commencement of commercial operations of the “world’s first” hydrogen fuel cell-powered rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) crane, H2-ZE Transtainer crane, at the Port of Los Angeles. Mitsui E&S developed the H2-ZE Transtainer crane and announced its completion at the Mitsui Oita factory in April 2023. During development, it was verified that the same ...

Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has completed its first trial use of marine B100 biofuel on the car carrier Apollon Highway. The biofuel was supplied by energy management company World Fuel Services and delivered to the car carrier at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on March 31. After leaving Europe Emission Control Area, the vessel started using ...

Marine engineering company Deltamarin and Greek mid-stream carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) service provider ECOLOG have unveiled a liquified CO2 (LCO2) carrier design with LNG dual-fuel propulsion. The two companies have collaborated on LCO2 carrier design for the purpose of tendering at shipyards worldwide. As explained, the new design is intra-EU, short range, low-pressure, shallow draft. Deltamarin said that ...

Denmark-based supplier of marine fuel Bunker Holding has concluded its first blockchain-powered carbon insetting operation in a new partnership with Dutch carbon insetting firm 123Carbon and French classification society Bureau Veritas. This project marks the launch of Bunker Holding’s insetting capability, which delivers global decarbonization opportunities to parties across the shipping value chain in an effort to accelerate decarbonization in ...

Japanese shipping heavyweight Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), through its group company MOL Energia, has signed a time charter contract for two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dual-fuel very large gas carriers (VLGCs) with a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, CSSA Chartering and Shipping Services (CSSA). As informed, the vessels will be built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries in South Korea. They will have a ...