Tag: ammonia

Maersk, Fleet Management Limited, Keppel Offshore & Marine, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, Sumitomo Corporation and Yara International ASA will jointly conduct a feasibility study to establish a comprehensive and competitive supply chain for the provision of green ammonia ship-to-ship bunkering at the Port of Singapore.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group (HHI Group) in collaboration with Saudi Arabian state-run oil company, Saudi Aramco inked an MoU to promote hydrogen and ammonia-related businesses.

Eastern Pacific Shipping agreed with Dutch fuel provider OCI and engine manufacturing giant MAN Energy Solutions to retrofit some of its existing tankers and build methanol engine and ammonia engine newbuilds. 

With Maersk as one of the collaborators, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) revealed plans for the establishment of Europe’s largest production facility of green ammonia.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Yara International ASA (Yara) became the latest members of an ammonia-fuelled tanker Joint Development Project launched a year ago.

Yara International willl collaborate with Statkraft, and Aker Horizons, to establish Europe’s first large-scale green ammonia project in Norway.

The global classification society, RINA along with the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) shaked hands in order to develop a ship design capable of being fuelled by either ammonia or methanol.

PETRONAS has agreed with JERA to collaborate on a wide range of low-carbon energy initiatives, covering LNG, ammonia and hydrogen.

The major container shipping company Maersk recently issued its financial performance results for 2020, highlighting that despite the low volumes due to COVID-19, the company left 2020 with a strong balance sheet and plenty of firepower. 

Ammonia as a ship fuel presents additional risks when compared to conventional liquid fuels such as LNG, LPG, and methyl/ethyl alcohol, but it is possible to lower these risks by developing alternative and additional requirements to the existing IGC Code, according to a new report by Korean Register.