ESL Shipping joins Swedish hydrogen hub project

Finnish dry cargo vessel operator ESL Shipping, a subsidiary of Aspo, is taking part in a project to produce hydrogen as a fuel at the port of Luleå in Sweden as the first customer-side stakeholder. Named Botnia Link H2, the project is a partnership between energy company Uniper, technology firm ABB, Swedish Port of Luleå

Titan LNG partners with Petronas Marine for LNG

Independent alternative fuels supplier, Titan LNG, has partnered with Petronas Marine – the marine solutions arm of energy multinational, PETRONAS – to deliver LNG under a Term Supply Agreement to the VLCC Yuan Rui Yang, which is chartered by Koch Industries and owned by Cosco. The ship-to-ship transfer (STS) bunkering of the world’s first LNG-fuelled

Planning for development of hydrogen terminal at Rotterdam underway

Planning is getting underway to develop a hydrogen terminal at the Port of Rotterdam that can be a central import location for ammonia as a hydrogen carrier as well as the distribution for the alternative fuel. The project is being developed by bulk terminal operator HES International, Vopak which operates tank farms including ammonia terminals,

NAPA, ClassNK and Marubeni to study on EEXI and CII’s effect on operations

NAPA, the leading maritime software, services, and data analysis provider, will work with leading class society ClassNK and Japanese general trading company Marubeni to assess what fuel and carbon emission savings could be achieved through voyage optimization. NAPA will use its Fleet Intelligence platform to retrospectively analyze the impact of EEXI (Energy Efficiency Existing Ship

Maersk speeds up transition to net zero steel

A.P. Moller – Maersk has joined SteelZero, a global initiative bringing together forward-looking organisations to speed up the transition to a net zero steel industry. Led by the international non-profit Climate Group in partnership with ResponsibleSteel, organisations that join SteelZero make a public commitment to procure, specify, or stock 100% net zero steel by 2050.

EPA reverses SRE decisions taken during Trump’s regime

The US Environmental Protection Agency denied 36 requests from US small refiners seeking waivers from renewable fuel blending mandates for the 2018 compliance year, including 31 petitions that were previously granted under former president Donald Trump. The EPA said the 31 companies that previously had 2018 small refinery exemption (SRE) requests granted will not have

Bintulu Port to export LNG to more countries

Bintulu Port Sdn Bhd is set to ship liquified natural gas (LNG) directly to more countries after becoming the first Asean port operator to bulk export the fuel in International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) tanks on a large scale. LNG is conventionally shipped by chemical tankers. The innovation of exporting LNG in ISO tanks will

DNV approves Ballard’s Marine fuel cell module

Ballard Power Systems announced it has received Europe’s industry-first type approval from classification society DNV for its marine fuel cell module FCwave. Ballard said its high-power FCwave module is a flexible solution that can support the energy needs of various vessel types as well as onshore power. The scalable 200kW power module offers a plug-and-play

Refiners in Asia pin hopes on US SPR release

Asian refiners cheered US President Joe Biden’s decision to release 1 million b/d of oil from the US’ strategic petroleum reserves as the release may lead to more light sweet US crude exports to the Far East, while spot crude price differentials across the globe could fall should US refineries cut back on feedstock imports.

Wärtsilä to accelerate ammonia engine development for EU project

A powerful consortium of shipping stakeholders is aiming to develop demonstrators for two-stroke and four-stroke marine engines running on ammonia fuel. The Ammonia 2-4 project aims to advance viable concepts for ammonia fuel. The project is coordinated by technology group Wärtsilä, with participation from naval architects C-Job, classification society DNV, ship owner MSC and the