In China, Hong Kong’s Towngas and the Netherlands’ Royal Vopak have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to expand green methanol production, storage, and bunkering across China and the Asia-Pacific, marking a step toward industrial-scale deployment of maritime clean fuel.
Towngas brings proprietary waste-to-fuel technology and a growing production base in northern China. Vopak contributes a network of storage terminals along the coast, with facilities already in place in nine provinces. Together, they aim to build an integrated supply chain stretching from the Inner Mongolia plant to terminals in Tianjin, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shenzhen, and beyond.
The partnership will begin by reinforcing logistics and bunkering capacity at key ports in the Greater Bay Area and East China. In the north, green methanol will be piped from Towngas’s Ordos plant to Vopak’s tanks in Tianjin, then distributed to domestic and export markets, including Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, and South Korea.
Towngas has completed Asia’s largest green methanol bunkering operation and plans to triple its production capacity to 300,000 tonnes by 2028. Longer term, it targets one million tonnes annually.
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Category: Sustainable Marine Fuels
