Tag: alternative fuels

Hadi Haghshenas, deputy director of maritime affairs in Iran, supported, during the closing ceremony of the 26th conference on coordination of marine organizations in Tehran, that they expect the government's support in favour of using low-sulfur fuel in the country's fleet over the next ten months.

Dutch maritime companies collaborate on the Green Methanol Project, in support of Maritime Knowledge Centre, to investigate the use of methanol as a sustainable alternative transport fuel in the maritime sector. Dutch shipowners, shipyards, manufacturers and ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam have joined forces ahead of the IMO’s 2020 sulphur cap.

Euroseas Ltd, a Greek containership owner, is planning to use low sulphur fuels to be compliant with the IMO's 2020 sulphur cap regulations. In its full year results call Euroseas said it was eschewing fitting scrubbers to meet the demands of the sulphur cap and will use compliant low sulphur fuels.

In its Energy Outlook for 2019, BP reports that the transport sector will continue to be dominated by oil, despite the increasing penetration of alternative fuels, and particularly electricity and natural gas. Oil used in transport will rise by 4 Mb/d (220 Mtoe), with most of that demand deriving from increased use in aviation and marine, rather than road transportation.

The Swedish Club published the report 'Sulphur Guide', to provide technical and legal advice to the shipping industry to comply with the 2020 sulphur cap. It analyzes technical considerations when making the decision between operating with low sulphur fuels and retrofitting scrubbers and explains the implications, both in terms of compliance and in relation to the terms of any charterparty in place.

To mitigate the risks of an increasingly complex bunkering marketplace, VeriFuel, part of Bureau Veritas, urged the marine bunker sector, upstream supply chain, and fuel testing organisations, to work together more effectively to find solutions that support the smooth transition to new fuels for 2020.

Energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie provided a recap of predictions in view of the upcoming stringent environmental regulations and specifically the IMO's sulphur cap, effective from 1st January 2020. Woodmac sees, among others, a rise in the use of scrubbers, before the IMO imposes its sulphur limit. 

Mr. Chryson Sariyannidis, CEO, CS & Associates SA, explains why industry should think of elimination of liquid fuels and their replacement by Natural Gas.

E4tech in its 'The Fuel Cell Industry Review 2018' report focuses on the developments that are occurring in the time being, supporting that they could benefit the market for fuel cells, but not yet. The report looked at developments and ‘proving efforts’ currently happening in Germany, Norway, Greece, the US and Belgium.

German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd revealed plans to retrofit its 15,000 TEU boxship 'Sajir' to use LNG propulsion, in a pilot project expected to pave the way for converting large ships to LNG. The LNG conversion is expected to save 15-30% in CO2 emissions from the ship's operation.