Ammonia

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) is reported to have placed an order for three Newcastlemax bulk carriers with Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, with an option for a further three vessels, according to…

4th September 2023

EPS reported to place 3+3 dual-fuel NH3 Newcastlemax order

4th September 2023

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Four new partners have joined an initiative to decarbonise a key container trade shipping corridor.

25th August 2023

Silk Alliance welcomes four new members

25th August 2023

SHIPS & YARDS

SHIPS & YARDS

Chemicals transportation specialist Stolt Tankers is augmenting its fleet with a series of newbuilds readied for adaptation to ammonia fuel.

24th August 2023

Ammonia-Ready Chemtankers For Stolt Fleet

24th August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Norwegian shipmanagement specialist OSM Thome has announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Norwegian green shipping specialist Pherousa Green Shipping AS (PGS) to collaborate on a series of 63,000dwt ammonia-fuelled Ultramax…

22nd August 2023

OSM Thome inks NH3-fuelled Ultramax series deal

22nd August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has announced the beginning of demonstration tests of the ammonia gas abatement system (AGAS) at its testing facility at Nagasaki District MHI…

22nd August 2023

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding begins NH3 abatement system demonstration tests

22nd August 2023

OTHER ALTERNATIVE FUELS

OTHER ALTERNATIVE FUELS

Avance Gas has taken up an option for two 40,000 cbm LPG/ammonia carrier newbuildings with Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering (CIMC SOE). The dual-fuel newbuildings will be powered by engines capable of operating…

21st August 2023

Avance Gas takes up LPG-fuelled LPG/ammonia carrier options

21st August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

TB Global Technologies Ltd. (TBG), the Japanese cargo handling equipment specialist, has signed an agreement with NYK to jointly develop Japan’s first bunkering boom for ammonia, a device used to supply ammonia fuel between…

18th August 2023

NYK to collaborate in NH3 bunker boom project

18th August 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Mads Carsten Jespersen and a team of researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) presented research into widening the operating limits of a spark-ignited engine operating on pure ammonia and confirmed that…

15th August 2023

Ammonia combustion without ignition improver demonstrated on single cylinder test engine

15th August 2023

METHANOL

METHANOL

Wallenius Wilhelmsen has ordered four 9,350 car equivalent unit (ceu) vessels from Jinling Shipyard in Jiangsu province, China. The vessels will be capable of operating on methanol as a fuel, and will be ammonia-ready. The order…

15th August 2023

Wallenius Wilhelmsen orders 4+8 methanol-fuelled PCTCs

15th August 2023

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Global energy and commodity group, Mercuria and maritime innovator, ETA Shipping have joined forces on the construction of six state-of-the-art vessels designed with maximum efficiency in mind.

14th August 2023

New efficient vessel design for short sea shipping

14th August 2023