BLive, India’s leading integrated commercial EV mobility platform, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, to deploy up to 1,000 Tata electric mini trucks through BLive PRIME, its franchise-owned commercial EV fleet programme. The planned rollout is part of the company’s strategy to build scale in India’s fast-growing Cargo
The same 13,000 TEU methanol dual-fuel containership, the same port, and another record just five months later. CMA CGM, SIPG Energy and Shanghai Electric have completed an 8,016-tonne biomethanol bunkering operation in Shanghai, more than doubling the previous record and marking another step in CMA CGM’s broader push to scale up low-carbon marine fuels. A
German shipowner Leonhardt & Blumberg (L&B) announced on August that it had installed Dutch company Econowind’s wind-assisted propulsion system, “VentoFoil,“ on the general cargo vessel “HANSA DREJOE.“ It will be the first of a series of four general cargo vessels to be equipped with the system. By installing the system, L&B aims to advance the
Container shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk saw Q2 2026 bunker consumption drop by 4.3% year-on-year, while bunker costs jumped 36% amid higher fuel prices linked to the Middle East situation. The firm consumed a total of 2.56 million fuel oil equivalent tonnes (FOE tonnes) in Q2 2026, down 4.3% from Q2 2025 but up about 2.1% from Q1 2026, it said in an earnings release on Thursday. From Q1 2026, Maersk has
European natural gas prices rose Monday as ongoing disruptions to Gulf LNG supplies, lower shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and high temperatures increase concerns over supply and demand imbalances. The September contract at the Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF), Europe’s largest and most liquid gas trading hub, settled at €61.42 per megawatt-hour (MWh)
ORNX Green Hydrogen’s planned ammonia project in Morocco has moved into preliminary engineering, another step toward determining whether the 560,000-ton-a-year facility is technically and financially viable. U.S. engineering group KBR said on August 12 that ORNX had selected it to conduct pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) studies for the project in the Laâyoune region. The
The VENEX green-methanol facility located in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, is actively scaling its annual production capacity toward 300,000 tonnes. Operated as a joint venture between Towngas and Foran Energy, the project anchors a dual-production network designed to supply sustainable marine fuels. Located in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, the facility is targeting a capacity of up
China’s Shanghai Electric Group successfully bunkered 8,000 tonnes of green methanol into a container ship at Yangshan port in Shanghai on Monday, setting a global record for the largest single green methanol bunkering operation. The container ship was owned by CMA CGM Group, a French giant in global shipping and logistics. Zhu Zhaokai, president of
South Korean shipowner Polaris Shipping has signed a contract with Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding and China Shipbuilding Trading Co for four bulk carriers capable of running on ethanol or methanol. The 210,000 DWT Newcastlemax bulk carriers will be fitted with engines developed by WinGD, suitable for running on methanol, ethanol or conventional marine fuels, the company said in a press release last week. The order comes
Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of the 9,800-CEU *Grande Pacifico*, the first of five higher-capacity PCTCs ordered at China Merchants Heavy Industries Jiangsu and its largest car carrier to date, according to Grimaldi Group. Delivered on 10 August, the 220-metre ship is 38 metres wide, has gross tonnage of 95,534 and a service speed