In the United Kingdom, Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Laura DiBella joined the US delegation to the International Maritime Organization’s 84th session of the Maritime Environmental Protection Committee in London this week, reinforcing American opposition to the IMO Net-Zero Framework. DiBella argued that the framework amounts to an unnecessary tax on US shippers and vessels operating […]
In China, the country’s first hydrogen internal combustion engine electric-propulsion transport vessel will be designed and built in Wuhan, with launch expected in 2028, according to an official at China Classification Society’s Wuhan Rules Research Institute. The planned 2,000-ton inland river vessel will use industrial crude hydrogen as its primary fuel with electric range-extension technology, […]
In South Korea, Ulsan Port has completed the world’s first commercial ammonia bunkering of an ammonia-fueled vessel, marking what port authorities call the opening of a new era in green shipping. The operation, conducted on April 23 at Ulsan’s No. 2 pier, saw Lotte Fine Chemical supply 600 tonnes of green ammonia via pipe-to-ship connection […]
In Singapore, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach have renewed a three-year memorandum of understanding on green and digital shipping along the trans-Pacific route, one of the world’s busiest container trade lanes, with methanol emerging as the ports’ shared focus for alternative fuel […]
In Singapore, Japan’s NYK Line, local bunker supplier Golden Island and Norwegian ammonia producer Yara Clean Ammonia have signed a non-binding term sheet to jointly market and supply ammonia as a marine fuel in Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering port, with operations targeted to begin before 2030. The deal brings together a ship operator, a […]
In Singapore, Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority and Maritime Institute launched a new technology roadmap during this year’s Singapore Maritime Week, April 20-24. The roadmap commits more than $100 million to research and development over the next five years across four priority areas: autonomous port operations, alternative energy delivery, smart ships and integrated port services. […]
In Vietnam, Vietnam Plus reports that state-owned refiner Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical JSC has begun producing marine fuel at its Dung Quat Refinery by blending in pyrolysis oil derived from waste tires and plastics, with its first trial batch delivered in January to a vessel operated by the Petrovietnam Transportation Corporation. The refinery now […]
In Japan, Nippon Biofuel has been selected for demonstration project worth approximately $47 million, to build a marine biofuel supply chain stretching from Mozambique and Ghana to Singapore and Japan, with a target of producing 400,000 tons of jatropha-based fuel annually by 2032. Jatropha is a hardy shrub whose seeds yield oil that can be […]
In Japan, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and Japanese shipping company NS United Kaiun Kaisha signed a contract for two methanol dual-fuel bulk carriers delivering from 2028, a move that gives Rio Tinto the flexibility to switch from conventional fuel to methanol as supply chains for the cleaner fuel develop. The ships, each capable of […]
In South Korea, Busan Ilbo reports that defense and shipbuilding giant Hanwha signed an agreement on April 17 in Busan with four partners including the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute to develop and test hydrogen fuel cell propulsion for ships, a technology the industry sees as critical to meeting tightening International Maritime Organization emissions rules. […]
