In a move which it says will create a pathway to EU marine and road markets, Hebei Shoulang New Energy Technology has achieved  International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)  EU Recycled Carbon Fuel (RCF) certification for ethanol produced at its facility in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China. According to a statement issued last week by Hebei Shoulang’s parent company LanzaTech, this is the ‘world’s first ISCC EU RCF certification for ethanol produced from steel mill waste gases’. Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO and Board Chair of LanzaTech, commented: ‘Achieving ISCC EU certification for recycled carbon fuel at Hebei Shoulang is a critical […]

Addressing a workshop hosted by the U.S. Grains & Bioproducts Council ahead of ship.energy’s ARACON conference in Rotterdam, Ambassador Ginette Testa, the Permanent Representative of Panama to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), said that: ‘Ethanol deserves serious consideration as one potential component of a diversified portfolio of marine fuels.’ In her presentation at today’s workshop, Ambassador Testa noted that there has ‘already been meaningful progress’ with ethanol in the maritime sector. ‘Sea trials have been completed on vessels equipped with dual-fuel alcohol engines,’ she told the participants. ‘Ethanol emission factors have received formal approval under the IMO’s lifecycle assessment guidelines, […]

Maersk, Golden Island Pte Ltd. and PSA Singapore (PSA) have completed Singapore’s first ethanol bunkering operation at the latter’s Pasir Panjang Terminal. Supported by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the operation, which was conducted simultaneously with cargo operations (SIMOPS), saw bioethanol bunkered using a mass flow meter (MFM). The Singapore-registered Maersk Halifax – which in 2024 became the first large containership to be converted into a dual-fuel vessel able to operate on methanol – was bunkered with approximately 5,000 metric tonnes of ISCC-certified bioethanol from Golden Island’s Singapore-registered IMO Type II chemical tanker, M.T. Golden Centaurus, while […]