3678 results found for 'methanol'

3678 results found for 'methanol'
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  • Green Maritime Methanol Project Starts with Nine Ships

    28 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Rules & Regulation

    The consortium selected nine ships for research on the application of renewable methanol as a marine fuel.

  • Waterfront Shipping orders 8 methanol dual-fuel ships from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard

    1 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment, Transition, Vessels

    Canada-based Waterfront Shipping Company (WFS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Methanex Corporation, has placed an order for eight new methanol dual-fuel vessels with South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. The vessels will add to WFS’s existing fleet of 11 methanol-fuelled ships, which have been recognized by the marine industry for their use of clean-burning methanol as […]

  • Skarv Shipping orders up to eight methanol/ammonia-ready MPVs

    29 September 2023
    Vessels

    Skarv Shipping Solutions, a joint venture between Grieg Edge and Peak Group AS, signed a contract with Chinese Huanghai Shipbuilding Co. for up to eight low-carbon multipurpose vessels (MPVs).

  • Ocean Yield buying methanol-ready boxship

    13 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Transition, Vessels

    Norwegian shipowner Ocean Yield AS has decided to purchase a containership newbuilding under construction in South Korea.

  • C2X and Egyptian govt agree on next steps for large-scale methanol production

    4 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy

    C2X, a recently established company backed by A.P. Moller Holding as majority owner and A.P. Moller – Maersk as minority owner, has signed a framework agreement with the Egyptian government to enable and accelerate large-scale production of green methanol in Egypt. C2X’s ambition is to have a production capacity of more than three million tonnes […]

  • OCI to fuel Maersk’s 1st green methanol-powered feeder

    12 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Dutch producer and distributor of hydrogen-based products OCI Global is fueling the first-ever green methanol-powered container ship in a new partnership with A.P. Moller-Maersk. OCI revealed that it will provide ISCC-certified green biomethanol to power the maiden voyage of Maersk’s first methanol dual-fueled container ship once the vessel leaves South Korea this summer. The 172-meter-long […]

  • NYK receives its third methanol-fueled chemical tanker

    20 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    Singapore-based NYK Bulkship (Asia), part of Japanese shipping company NYK Group, has taken delivery of Grouse Sun, a methanol-powered chemical tanker.

  • Acta Marine orders methanol-powered CSOVs

    15 June 2022
    Green Marine, Technology, Vessels

    The Netherlands-based maritime support provider Acta Marine has signed a contract for the construction of two next-generation, Methanol MDO/HVO powered DP2 Construction Service Operating Vessels (CSOVs) at the Tersan Shipyard in Turkey. Acta Marine has also reserved options for two additional CSOVs for delivery at a later stage. The vessels are primarily aimed at the […]

  • Maersk inks green bio-methanol partnership with Debo

    19 August 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine

    A.P. Moller – Maersk has entered into a methanol partnership with Chinese bioenergy enterprise Debo. The parties have signed a Letter of Intent covering Debo’s plans to develop a bio-methanol project for Maersk in China with capacity of 200,000 tonnes per year to start commercial operation by fall 2024. The feedstock for the green bio-methanol […]

  • In focus: Increase in fossil fuel production threatens global climate goals

    10 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Research & Development

    Despite all the efforts exerted by the governments and companies around the world to reduce carbon emissions and reach ambitious net-zero targets, the new  2023 Production Gap Report shows that global coal, oil and gas productions are still increasing while planned reductions are nowhere near enough to avoid the worst effects of the climate change. […]

  • Single-fuel or dual-fuel methanol engines for tugs?

    22 May 2023
    Green Marine, Vessels

    Single-fuel methanol engines may hold the key to a greener future for tugs, marine propulsion systems manufacturer Rolls-Royce Power Solutions (RRPS) and Maersk’s towage operator Svitzer said in a joint paper. The main driver behind the development of dual-fuel engines is fuel flexibility, allowing vessels to operate even with limited methanol availability. However, such engines […]

  • New Zealand’s Move investing in methanol-ready RORO

    15 September 2022
    Green Marine, Vessels

    New Zealand’s logistics specialist Move Logistics Group is pressing ahead with the plans to procure a new methanol-ready roll-on, roll-off (RORO) vessel. The company has already secured NZ$10 million ($ 6 million) in co-investment funds from transport agency Waka Kotahi. The government has committed NZ$30 million of funding for coastal shipping through the National Land […]

  • Port of London welcomes world’s 1st green methanol-powered boxship

    29 September 2023
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    The world’s first methanol-fuelled container vessel, Laura Maersk, arrived at Port of London for its maiden call on 27 September, marking a new step in the journey towards decarbonization in the shipping industry.

  • Waterfront Shipping welcomes new methanol dual-fuel MR tanker

    7 October 2021
    Vessels

    Canada-based Waterfront Shipping Company (WFS), a subsidiary of Methanex Corporation, has taken delivery of the fifth in a series of eight methanol dual-fuel tankers from South Korean shipyard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard.

  • Methanol-fueled ship pioneer Marinvest has a new owner

    7 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Clean Sea Transport has acquired 100% of the shares in Swedish shipping company Marinvest AB to promote clean fuels in the shipping sector.

  • Maersk inks green methanol deal with Carbon Sink

    16 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Danish container shipping major A.P. Moller – Maersk has entered into a green methanol partnership with U.S.-based project developer Carbon Sink LLC. The parties have signed a Letter of Intent covering Carbon Sink’s development of green methanol production facilities in the United States. The first facility will be co-located with the Red River Energy existing […]

  • Ocean Yield opts for another methanol-ready boxship

    19 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Norwegian shipowning company Ocean Yield AS is buying another methanol-ready boxship newbuilding for long-term charter.

  • Alfa-Laval gears up to test methanol fuel cells

    19 April 2021
    Collaboration, Environment, Innovation, Research & Development, Transition

    Alfa Laval in cooperation with fuel cell maker Blue World Technologies has announced plans to start testing a marine fuel cell system based on methanol. The testing will take place at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre in Denmark, exploring the technology’s potential as a source of marine fossil-free auxiliary power systems. The project […]

  • Stena Line partners with Wärtsilä to convert vessels to methanol

    27 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    Swedish ferry operator Stena Line has hired technology group Wärtsilä to convert some of its vessels to operate with methanol fuel. The conversions will include the fuel supply system and engine modifications, as well as integrating the new installations with the ships’ existing systems. The contracts were booked as order intake by Wärtsilä in June […]

  • DNV GL to Class New Methanol-Fuelled Tankers

    22 January 2014

    The first four vessels to use DNV GL’s rules for low flashpoint fuels will be a series of 50,000 dwt tankers ordered by the owners Marinvest and Westfal-Larsen. The vessels are the very first to be fuelled by methanol – a fuel that significantly reduces local air emissions. These product carriers which also are prepared […]

  • Liquid Wind one step closer to produce eMethanol for shipping industry

    1 October 2021
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Swedish power-to-fuel developer Liquid Wind has applied for an environmental permit to build Sweden’s first eMethanol production facility to supply carbon-neutral methanol for the shipping industry.

  • Svitzer turns to Caterpillar to switch its fleet to methanol

    18 April 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Global towage operator Svitzer, a part of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Houston-based Caterpillar Marine to adopt solutions that enable Svitzer to utilize methanol in their fleet. Under the partnership, the duo plans to work on the installation of dual-fuel methanol engines on new tugs as well as conversions of existing […]

  • World’s 1st methanol-powered pilot boat launched

    14 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    The world’s first methanol propelled pilot boat has been launched by the Fastwater project, a consortium of Europe’s maritime research and technology leaders set to demonstrate the feasibility of retrofit and newbuild vessels to operate on methanol.

  • First Methanol-Fueled Ships to Join the Market in April

    12 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    The first clean-burning, fuel-efficient vessels, equipped with the MAN B&W ME-LGI 2-stroke dual fuel engines that can run on methanol, fuel oil, marine diesel oil, or gas oil, will start joining the shipping market in April. Two out of a batch of seven 50,000 dwt ships will join their owners Westfal-Larsen Management (WL), and a joint venture with Waterfront Shipping Company […]

  • Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings joins Methanol Institute

    13 September 2022
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    American cruise line Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (Norwegian) has become the newest member of the Methanol Institute (MI), a global trade association for the methanol industry.