STX Group,Titan Clean Fuels complete largest ship-to-ship LBM bunker

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) and biomethane (LBM) supplier Titan Clean Fuels and environmental commodities trading and climate solutions provider STX Group successfully concluded a ship-to-ship bunkering of 2,200 metric tons of LBM to the Brussels Expresss in the port of Rotterdam.

This transaction marks Hapag-Lloyd’s entry into using LBM as sustainable bunker fuel, representing the largest ship-to-ship bunkering operation known to date.

STX Group and Titan Clean Fuels have collaborated to liquify, store and deliver mass-balanced biomethane in Zeebrugge in Belgium under ISSC certification fully recognized under the European Union´s Renewable Energy Directive known as RED II.

LBM, also known as bio-LNG, is an established sustainable bunker fuel that can even be net-zero emissions depending on the feedstock and is commercially available in Europe, Asia and North America.

Biomethane is produced from sustainable biomass feedstocks such as industrial and agricultural waste streams that do not compete with food production. These are nationally or regionally defined, for example by the EU (RED II) in Europe and the EPA (Renewable Fuel Standards) in the USA.