MPC Container Ships (MPCCS) has announced that it is partnering with North Sea Container Line (NCL) and Elkem on an order for two 1,300 TEU ‘carbon neutral’ methanol powered container ships. MPCCS has contracted the two carbon-neutral 1,300 TEU newbuildings at Chinese-based shipyard Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering. The contract price of $39M per vessel is
NYK, the Japanese shipping firm, said it has concluded a contract with Keihin Dock Co., Ltd., an NYK Group company, to modify tugboat Sakigake to ammonia-fuel specifications. Sakigake, a tugboat currently fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and operated in Tokyo Bay by NYK Group company Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha Corporation, will be converted to operate on
PaxOcean Engineering has reached an agreement with Hong Lam Marine and Bureau Veritas to jointly develop an ammonia bunker vessel design. There are a host of ongoing initiatives in Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering hub, to develop ammonia fuel lines for shipping with many owners now actively studying making the possibility of making their first
Singapore biofuel introduction NYK’s bulker Frontier Explorer was the first to receive biofuel from the new supply arrangement. GoodFuels in partnership with ITOCHU reports they have launched operations in Singapore just three months after forming a partnership to service the market. The delivery, which was the first to be managed under GoodFuels’ partnership with ITOCHU
Germany has signed a memorandum of understanding with its top utilities to ensure the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs). Under the deal with Uniper, RWE and EnBW subsidiary VNG, the country’s first two FSRU-based LNG import terminals in Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuettel will be fully supplied
SK Inc. and SK Innovation invested in a next-generation small modular reactor (SMR) developer, stepping up their efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. The investment is likely to provide a boost to SK Group’s strategy for the early achievement of net-zero emissions as well as group-wide efforts to build a green energy portfolio. SK announced
TVS Motor Company is working on a hydrogen-powered iteration of its popular electric scooter the iQube. The company is working on a scooter with two hydrogen “fuel” canisters mounted to the front downtube of a scooter’s frame. The design illustrations further reveal that a filler nozzle is located on the front apron, and a pipe
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are set to sign a green energy agreement later this month in Newfoundland that could prove pivotal to Canada’s nascent hydrogen industry. The German government issued a statement confirming the agreement will be signed Aug. 23 in Stephenville, where a Newfoundland-based company plans to build a
The countries across Europe to install new LNG import facilities in record time continues to pick up pace, with FSRUs now secured for deployment in a number of EU member states. The sharp fall in Russian pipeline imports – and the prospect of flows from Russia being cut further or halted completely – has led
Alfa Laval will provide the methanol LFSS for six 1170 TEU container vessels ordered by Eastaway, a member of the X-Press Feeders Group. The new vessel series, to be built at Chinese shipyards Ningbo Xinle Shipbuilding Group Co., Ltd and New Dayang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd, will have two-stroke MAN B&W ME-LGIM engines that can run