Tag: biofuels

Maersk Growth, a venture arm of industry major A. P. Moller – Maersk, has together with VÅR Ventures, invested in Kvasir Technologies, a Danish technology company developing a proprietary technology for the production of carbon-neutral biofuel from non-edible biowaste material.

HMM has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GS Caltex to secure marine biofuels in order to conduct the trial use of the fuels on its three 24,000 TEU container ships in the second half of this year.

Global Maritime Forum (GMF) today released a study in which a multi-fuel future for the shipping industry on the path to zero emissions is evaluated. 

Peninsula, a marine fuels solutions company, has welcomed into its expanding fleet, Hercules Sky, a two year old oil chemical tanker.

During the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Limassol Forum, Bill Stamatopoulos, Global Business Development Director, VeriFuel, gave a presentation on the use biofuels for the marine shipping sector.

Last week, NORDEN issued a statement to announce that together with shipowner Spar Shipping AS, they recently bunkered approximately 1100 tonnes of biofuel at GoodFuels in Rotterdam used on two voyages bound for Asia and Africa respectively.  

GoodFuels has announced the completion of a first biofuel bunkering in collaboration with Hyundai GLOVIS, a global total logistics and distribution company.

The Finnish Shipping company Langh Ship and Samskip began operating their container vessel Edith with biofuel.

On March 16th, the European Commission proposed the Net-Zero Industry Act to scale up manufacturing of clean technologies in the EU and make sure the Union is well-equipped for the clean-energy transition. This initiative was announced by President von der Leyen as a part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan.

NABU has released a study on methanol as a marine fuel. Green ammonia has been discussed alongside green hydrogen and methanol as the green future fuel for ships. The study "Ammonia as Marine Fuel – Risks and Perspectives" investigates environmental and climate questions.