Over 80% of Danish Shipping companies tonnage to sail on green fuels

Danish shipping companies currently have 67 new ships in the order book, which will be delivered from shipyards around the world in the coming years. This increases the number of Danish vessels in the order books for the third year in a row.

Of these ships, 35 or just over 52% will be sailing on green fuels.

The ordered tonnage has increased by 7% compared to the same time last year, and if one looks at the ships’ tonnage, the green development appears even more clearly. Over 80% of the new tonnage can sail on green fuels.

Danish shipping companies have been placing orders for new ships in many different ship segments. There majority of them are containerships but tugboats also fill up well, according to the association.

Earlier this year, Denmark-based container shipping major AP Møller-Mærsk commissioned the world’s first container ship, Laura Mærsk, which can sail on green e-methanol.

What is more, Maersk readies to take delivery of its first large methanol-fueled boxship. The container vessel being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in South Korea has a nominal capacity of 16,000 containers (TEU) and is equipped with a dual-fuel engine enabling operations on methanol as well as biodiesel and conventional bunker fuel. It was launched in October 2023. At the time of deployment, it will be the second container vessel in the world that can sail on green methanol, the first being the feeder vessel Laura Maersk.

Among Danish green vessels is also the service operation vessel (SOV) which ESVAGT and Ørsted expect to receive in 2024. It will be the world’s first of its kind that can sail on green fuels.