3680 results found for 'methanol'

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  • MAN ME-LGI Engine Becomes Reality

    18 December 2013

    Vancouver-based Waterfront Shipping has confirmed its Methanol Carrier Project for a series of 50,000-dwt methanol carriers, each powered by an MAN B&W ME-LGI main engine running on methanol. The confirmation stems from a Letter of Intent MAN Diesel & Turbo and Waterfront signed in July of this year. MAN Diesel & Turbo officially designates the […]

  • PowerCell, e1 Marine and Maritime Partners test first methanol-to-fuel cell power chain

    19 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    Hydrogen fuel cell supplier PowerCell Group and methanol-to-hydrogen technology firm e1 Marine, in partnership with RIX Industries, have conducted a string test of their respective technologies for a 200kW propulsion chain as part of the validation of Maritime Partners LLC’s M/V Hydrogen One inland push boat. The string test was performed on land at PowerCell Group’s […]

  • Blue World Technologies ready to scale up methanol fuel cell tech for maritime sector

    30 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    The Bill Gates-founded investment fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) has entered as an investor in Danish fuel cell company Blue World Technologies alongside Vaekstfonden, DEUTZ AG, and existing investors who invested back in December 2021 to complete the company’s €37 million series B round.

  • Proman Shipping Names Its Largest Vessel Yet

    13 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Hyundai Mipo Dockyard hosted a naming ceremony for a 52,000-tonne methanol carrier being built for MOL.

  • More ethanol facilities for Vopak Botlek

    17 August 2009

    Vopak Botlek has commissioned eight new tanks with a total capacity of 149,000 m3. The first shipment consisted of ethanol for use in fuels. In addition, the handling apparatus for ethanol trains is to be modified. It was already possible to load unit trains for methanol and unload trains for ethanol. From the fourth quarter […]

  • Höegh Autoliners & Yara Clean Ammonia enter clean ammonia supply deal

    2 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Ammonia distributor Yara Clean Ammonia, a subsidiary of Yara International, and shipowner Höegh Autoliners, both Norwegian companies, have agreed on a future supply deal for clean ammonia. Höegh Autoliners noted that the partnership follows separate initiatives in both companies in two important parts of the value chain, namely supply and demand. In May 2023, the […]

  • Alfa Laval: HT-PEM fuel cell system using methanol passes tests

    7 September 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Transition

    In Q2 2022, Swedish sustainable solutions provider Alfa Laval started up a small-scale methanol fuel cell system at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre. Based on positive test results, the project is on track for a 200 kW installation.

  • Damen Shipyards, Boluda Towage form zero-emission tug alliance

    24 May 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Dutch shipbuilding major Damen shipyards has inked a partnership agreement with Boluda Towage, part of Spain’s Boluda Corporación Marítima, aimed at bringing zero-emission tugs to Europe. In the harbour and towage sector, electric and methanol-fueled propulsion systems currently offer the best and most available route to achieve zero emissions.  The duo plans to launch its first zero-emission tug featuring […]

  • Japanese duo to support development of next-gen marine fuel engines

    4 April 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Research & Development

    Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) has signed a technical agreement to promote the development and popularization of next-generation fuel engines with compatriot Akasaka Diesels Limited (Akasaka).

  • HMM joins hands with LOTTE Fine Chemical on ammonia shipping

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

    South Korean shipping major HMM has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with compatriot specialty chemicals company LOTTE Fine Chemical for the marine transportation of ammonia. The MoU also covers the bunkering of ammonia and methanol fuel and comes after HMM made a major order for methanol-powered containerships. As reported in February, HMM has ordered […]

  • World’s first: HHI celebrates 200 mil BHP milestone with the starting of Maersk’s methanol-powered engine

    22 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    South Korea’s shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries, an affiliate of HD Hyundai, announced today that it has become the world’s first company whose cumulative production of two-stroke marine engines exceeds 200 million horsepower output. The company held a ceremony to mark the occasion at its Ulsan-based engine assembly plant earlier today, marking the occasion with […]

  • NACKS floats out OOCL’s new eco-friendly 24,000 TEU behemoth

    17 November 2022
    Vessels

    NACKS, a joint venture between Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation and COSCO Shipping, has launched a new 24,000 TEU containership built for Hong Kong-based shipowner Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL).

  • Disney Cruise Line buys 1st green methanol-powered mega cruise ship

    17 November 2022
    Vessels

    U.S.-based cruise shipping company Disney Cruise Line has decided to acquire cruise ship Global Dream, currently under construction at German shipyard Meyer Werft

  • In focus: All roads leading to hydrogen

    16 September 2022
    Green Marine

    This week’s announcement on the creation of a new European Hydrogen Bank has been hailed by many as a game-changer that will help decarbonise the EU in a cost-effective way. The announcement was made by President of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von Der Leyen during her State of the Union address on 14 September […]

  • Proman Shipping, Stena Bulk Form Joint Venture

    3 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Proman Shipping, Stena Bulk create JV that would see the partners co-own two vessels, promote methanol as marine fuel.

  • ClassNK: 80 million gt of zero-emission ships needed annually by 2040 to meet IMO targets

    17 October 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Green Marine, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels

    The maritime industry must build 80 million gross tonnage (gt) of zero-emission ships each year over the 14-year period from 2027 to 2040 to achieve the indicative checkpoints for 2030 and 2040 developed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in its 2023 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Strategy, according to the estimates from the Japanese classification society […]

  • World’s first: Port of Antwerp-Bruges 1st methanol tug gets fitted with engines

    24 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Innovation, Ports & Logistics, Transition, Vessels

    The conversion of a Port of Antwerp-Bruges tug to methanol has officially been launched at the beginning of this week with the first engine installed on Monday, November 21. The second dual-fuel engine is set to be installed next week enabling the vessel to run both on methanol and conventional fuels, according to a recent […]

  • South Korea sees first-ever simultaneous LNG bunkering operations on bulkers

    1 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Transition, Vessels

    For the first time in Korea, simultaneous operations (SIMOPs) of ship-to-ship LNG bunkering were conducted for a coal-carrying bulk carrier at the POSCO raw material dock, Gwanyang port.

  • EnergyQuest: What’s in store for Australia’s gas industry?

    9 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Transition

    EnergyQuest has provided its take on Australia’s gas outlook, shedding more light on what awaits the country in the future.

  • In focus: Backed with government and private funding, offshore energy and shipping industries go full steam ahead towards net-zero future

    1 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Vessels

    Europe and the United States have set in place a number of funding programs designed to boost and accelerate the development of a very diverse ‘clean energy sector’, which is being backed by significant initiatives from the major players coming from the more established maritime and oil and gas industries, which are becoming increasingly aware that the clean future has no other alternative.

  • MEO Australia: Strong Interest in Tassie Shoal Projects

    12 April 2012

    MEO Australia Limited announced that it has completed preliminary discussions with a number of major industry participants in relation to the commercialisation of the Tassie Shoal Projects. As a consequence, formal Expressions of Interest (EoI) have been received from potential buyers for the purchase of an aggregate of 8.3MTA of methanol from the first Tassie […]

  • Fire alarms go off on Terra Nova FPSO (Canada)

    5 October 2015

    A fire broke out on the Terra Nova Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO), operating offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, on Thursday (October 1), due to the creation of an arc in an electrical circuit. Also, methanol was accidentaly released a day earlier to the sea from subsea equipment from a subsea drill center in the […]

  • Beerenberg scoops 7-year maintenance deal with Statoil

    13 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has awarded Beerenberg a seven-year maintenance and modification agreement for work on at the Tjeldbergodden facility in Norway, which receives gas from the Heidrun offshore field. 

  • Maersk: We need to act faster to break this chicken and egg limbo

    26 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    The transition towards zero-carbon fuels in the shipping industry needs to be accelerated, putting a greater focus on the viable solutions already on the market and skipping transitional solutions. These were the messages of A.P. Moller Maersk’s Executive Vice President Henriette Hallberg Thygesen during a session on climate Action Partnerships, hosted yesterday by the World Economic […]

  • MAN ME-LGI Engines for Waterfront Shipping Carriers

    18 December 2013

      Vancouver-based Waterfront Shipping has confirmed its Methanol Carrier Project for a series of 50,000-dwt methanol carriers, each powered by an MAN B&W ME-LGI main engine running on methanol. The confirmation stems from a Letter of Intent MAN Diesel & Turbo and Waterfront signed in July of this year. MAN Diesel & Turbo officially designates […]