Tag: biofuels

Sener announced that it has completed the conceptual design of a new model of sustainable tanker that can carry heavy fuel oil (HFO), very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO), biofuels and marine gas oils (MGO), and can also store the captured CO2 from nearby vessels.

Transport and Environment NGO has released a study that expresses concern over the significant pressure on supplies of animal fat as its use in biodiesel has grown fortyfold since 2006.

ExxonMobil this week signed an agreement with Hapag-Lloyd to supply B30 marine bio fuel oil in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) region.

According to Trafigura, green e-fuels produced from renewable energy could be produced in abundance in the developing countries of the Global South.

Egypt signed on Sunday, 14th May, a joint development agreement with Norway’s Scatec to establish the country’s first green methanol production project in Damietta Port.

According to DNV, European Parliament (EP), the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission (EC) have reached an agreement on the FuelEU Maritime regulation, with the objective to increase the share of renewable and low-carbon fuels in the fuel mix of maritime transport in the EU. 

In the past nine months, VT Group and FinCo Group have worked together to test 100% Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) biodiesel on VT Group's ship MTS Vlissingen.

Astomos and INPEX reached an agreement to supply B24 biofuel bunker to a Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Toyota Tsusho announced in early May that, together with Toyotsu Energy they launched Japan's first continuous supply of biodiesel blended fuel on a commercial basis to ships operated by Toyofuji Shipping at the Port of Nagoya in April.

GIDARA Energy announced that it has received the environmental permit for the bio-methanol plant to be built at Biopark, in the port of Amsterdam.