PRIO unveils ECO Bunkers B30 biofuel

PRIO has introduced new ECO Bunkers B30 biofuel in partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and World Fuel Services.

PRIO previously launched ECO Bunkers B15, a green fuel for ships with 15% biodiesel and the company then launched a 20% biofuel blend, ECO Bunkers E20.

The new ECO Bunkers B30 is a 30% blend of advanced biofuel from waste feedstocks, produced at PRIO’s biodiesel plant and blended at PRIO’s tank terminal in Aveiro. The flexibility of this blending process makes it possible to scale production according to demand and adjust the percentage of Biodiesel mixtures (up to a 100% renewable product, which allows up to 86% GHG reduction), according to the needs of customers and objectives of sustainability.

With the support of World Fuel Services, on 27 November and 7 December 2022, two Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings cruises were supplied with a total of 400 tonnes of B30 (blend of 70% ultra-low sulphur diesel and 30% biofuel) supplied and produced by PRIO.

The first cruise, Norwegian Star, took advantage of a stopover in Lisbon, to supply 200 tonnes of ECO Bunkers B30. The following week, another ship in the fleet, Norwegian Epic, followed with another 200 tons of ECO Bunkers B30.

ECO Bunkers B30 fuel enabled the Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings fleet to reduce CO2 emissions by around 30%, which is about 440 tonnes of CO2.