Sixteen companies, investors and NGOs have written to MEPs leading the European Union discussions on the revision of the EU ETS, urging them to ring-fence support for e-fuels under the proposed Sustainable Maritime Alternative Propulsion (SMAP) mechanism. SMAP is a new maritime funding mechanism, proposed as part of its EU ETS revision, that would reserve up to 110 million EU Allowances (EUAs), estimated to be worth approximately €15billion, for maritime decarbonisation. Shipping companies could claim EUAs based on their use of eligible fuels and technologies in the previous year and then sell them or use them to lower their EU […]

CLPe has today (14 October) announced it recently partnered with CNOOC (Shenzhen) International Marine Clean Energy Co. (CNOOC) to complete what it says is Hong Kong’s first LNG ship-to-ship (STS) bunkering operation for a pure car and truck carrier (PCTC). The six-hour operation, which took place on 26 September at Western Anchorage No. 3 west of Victoria Harbou, saw the 7,000 car equivalent unit (CEU) AICC Fenghuang fuelled with approximately 2,600 cubic metres of LNG by CNOOC’s Haiyang Shiyou 301 bunker vessel. ‘Through close collaboration and meticulous operational planning, CLPe and CNOOC have successfully completed Hong Kong’s first LNG bunkering […]

The Global Centre for Green Fuels hosted a series of panel discussions at SIBCON to progress the development of ethanol as a practical and repeatable bunker fuel. The event, Ethanol Bunkering in Singapore – From First Trials to Commercial Scale, was held yesterday (13 October) and came the day before the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) issued a statement announcing that Singapore will conduct its first ethanol bunkering operation at PSA’s Pasir Panjang Terminal before the weekend. Opening the event, Clarence Woo, Managing Director of the Global Centre for Green Fuels, said ethanol is moving from first trials […]