With seven methanol dual-fuel ships already in service and more to follow, Maersk continues to line up new green fuel sources. It has now entered into a long-term bio-methanol offtake agreement with
From 2025, MAN PrimeServ – the after-sales brand of MAN Energy Solutions – will offer a methanol retrofit package for the conversion of currently in-service MAN four-stroke engines to dual-fuel methanol operation.
London-headquartered design and engineering consultancy Houlder has unveiled a design for a 10,000-cubic-meter methanol bunkering vessel. The methanol bunkering vessel design includes semi-automated crane systems for supplying methanol to other ships of
With regulatory pressures mounting, operators of all types of vessels, including tugs, are assessing all the alternative fuel technology options. Releasing details of a new fuel flexible tug design, Damen, one of
As methanol continues to make inroads as an alternate fuel of choice, Alfa Laval reports that it has now received over 100 orders for its FCM Methanol low-flashpoint fuel supply system (LFSS).
With an increasing number of operators adopting methanol fueling, a key component of the methanol value chain and the overall scalability of the fuel will be the ability to bunker methanol, either
Here’s a development that operators with vessels trading to Europe need to pay attention to, particularly if they have hopes of getting European ETS and FuelEU credits by using green methanol or
In a move seen as broadening the potential of methanol as a fuel for smaller vessels, classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has granted Japan’s Sasaki Shipbuilding an approval in principle (AiP) for
MAN Energy Solutions and Svitzer have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focused on developing a methanol-fueled version of the MAN 175D engine, designated the175DF-M (Dual Fuel-Methanol). The MoU targets finalization of
Maersk’s green methanol fueled Laura Maersk is the first vessel to feature a new Low-flashpoint Fuel Supply system (LFSS) developed by Danish specialist Eltronic FuelTech. “Embracing green methanol as a fuel has