Tag: MGO

Damen Shiprepair & Conversion has secured a contract from Rouen-based GIE Dragages-Ports to realize conversion of a dredger to dual-fuel, combining LNG and MGO, the first conversion of its kind to take place in Europe. The conversion is part of an EU initiative to promote LNG in short-sea vessels operating in European Atlantic coast.

The challenges and opportunities posed by alternative fuels were discussed at Interferry’s 42nd annual conference in Split, where Mediterranean ferry operators voiced their concerns on meeting the 0.5% sulphur emissions cap due in 2020.

NorSea Group UK announced the completion of a new Marine Gas Oil fueling facility at Peterhead Port, UK, making possible for supply vessels to be fueled directly at the quay. This marks completion of Phase 1 of the company's investment plan at the port.

According to Singapore's Police Coast Guard, a total of 13 men were arrested for illegal sale of Marine Gas Oil in two separate cases, on 30 July and 1 August 2017. Eight crew members were arrested for selling twenty metric tonnes of MGO and another five men were suspected to have illegally sold three metric tonnes of MGO.

At a seminar held by Kaiji Press, in Tokyo, Japan Engine Corporation announced that it leads developing and manufacturing MGO mono-fuel engine, that meets all the requirement against regulations of NOx, SOx, EEDI, super low fuel consumption, extended maintenance interval and improved reliability.

The IMO decision on 2020 marine fuel sulphur requirements is a call to action for the industry. For shipping operators, decisions need to be made whether to plan to purchase marine fuel with 0.5% sulphur content or to invest in exhaust gas cleaning systems, that would enable continued use of fuels with a higher sulphur content, says Justin Longhurst, marine fuels manager at BP.

Yara Marine Technologies announced that it has been awarded a contract for the supply of hybrid scrubber systems on two RoRo vessels to global logistics company Toll. Work is underway on the first vessel at Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing, China.

Hamburg Süd announced that cooperated with its Swedish customer Electrolux to launch a joint pilot project, in order to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions in the Port of Iquique in Chile. Thanks to switching to lower sulfur content of MGO, around 95 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions will be saved for the Electrolux cargo, in this port of call.

  Kai Låtun, VP Sales & Marketing, Yara Marine Technologies AS presentation during the 2015 GREEN4SEA Forum. In the presentation “SOx Scrubbers – a profitable investment ?”, Mr Latun looks at under which conditions the profitability of a scrubber investment should be evaluated. He gives some concrete examples of scrubber installations onboard vessels, and illustrates how to calculate paybacktime for a scrubber investment based on realtime conditions. He also reviews the costs of alternative consumables needed during scrubber operations. Yara Marine Technology, used to be known as Green Tech Marine, founded in 2010. Yara Marine Technology has supplied scrubbers since 2012 so it has tens of thousands of operating hours on scrubbers and experience on it. It is also now part of the Yara Group, which is a large Norwegian cooperation with turn over around $15,000,000,000/year and about 10,000 employees.  First of all I would like to say that I’m very happy about the presentation from Lloyds before, because he showed you a chart with green, yellow and red lines, when does it pay to have a scrubber. And being a scrubber supplier, we have very often come across this question. So, we have simply developed a calculator, where you can put ...

BIMCO members have reported that they have found that paraffin has formed in (LSMGO) due to the low temperatures experienced in northern European waters during the winter. The reports state that DMA 0.1%, which was analysed to be within the specifications for ISO 8217, DMA, has been forming large amounts of paraffin in the marine gas oil (MGO) tanks which has caused problems. The cloud point for this MGO was 32 degrees celsius, which is the temperature where paraffin starts to form, but the cloud point is not part of the ISO 8217 specification. Operators should bear this in mind when stemming LSMGO in northern Europe and they are advised to find out the cloud point as well as the pour point prior to the bunkering operation. They should also think about whether it is necessary to stem DMX grade if they are trading in the Baltic or other areas where traditionally there are low sea temperatures. This would enable any operator to obtain the cloud point beforehand, since it is part of the DMX specification. Terminology ISO 8217 is the international organisation for standardisation specifications for bunkering DMA 0.1% and DMX are industry marine gas oil fuel brands Source: ...