Tag: alternative fuels

The shipping industry must and can play a significant role in addressing global warming by reducing its GHG emissions, according to a 4-year research, ‘Shipping in Changing Climates’, supported by over 30 partners from the industry, including Lloyds Register, Rolls Royce, BMT, Shell and MSI.

LPGreen, a joint development project between four leaders in the maritime industry, has been working on a concept design for an LPG carrier capable of operating on LPG fuel. Almost a year into the project, the partners agree the results to date have been good.

The UK Government announced that it has committed to spending millions on funding innovative technologies and fuels to reduce maritime emissions, and help create a zero-emissions sector. UK has been working closely with industry to develop international regulations to support LNG and other alternative fuels.

Germany's Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure announced that it is now promoting the upgrading and conversion of seagoing vessels to LNG as a marine fuel. The aim of the new funding program is to promote the use of LNG in German shipping. 

MS innogy, the first ship in Germany to be powered by an environmentally friendly methanol fuel cell, was christened and put into operation as a regular passenger vessel, in a formal ceremony, on Essen’s Lake Baldeney.

Flogas Britain and Associated British Ports have joined forces, to carry out the first ever LNG bunkering in the UK. The 110-metre carrier "Ireland", operated by Norwegian KGJ Cement, was refuelled with LNG at the Port of Immingham, on August 23.

The government of India is examining the potential to allow use of methanol as a marine fuel, which would be a cheaper, cleaner and forex-saving solution compared to diesel, according to Indian Union minister, Nitin Gadkari.

The European Commission sent a reasoned opinion to Greece, Ireland, Malta, Romania, Slovenia and the United Kingdom, requesting them to notify their national policy framework under EU rules on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure.

In view of the shipping industry's need for an environmentally friendly fuel, Swedegas is investing in a new LNG infrastructure at the Port of Gothenburg, expected to be fully operational in 2018. This is the first LNG facility in Gothenburg, making it possible for vessels to bunker LNG at the quayside, while loading and unloading.

PitPoint.LNG announced that it will build Germany’s first liquefied natural gas bunkering station in the harbor of Cologne. The new station will facilitate the bunkering of LNG powered inland waterways vessels that sail on Europe’s busiest transport waterway, the Rhine.