Developed by GoodFuels, the second-generation bio-fuel oil is completely derived from forest residues and waste oil products. It is expected to deliver 80-90% well-to-propeller CO2 reduction versus fossil equivalents, and virtually eliminates sulphur oxide (SOx) emissions – without any requirement for engine modifications.<\/p>\n
Overseen by project partners, IKEA Transport & Logistics Services, CMA CGM and the Port of Rotterdam, and facilitated by fourth project partner, the GoodShipping Program, testing will commence with bunkering of the marine bio-fuel oil on a CMA CGM container vessel at the Port of Rotterdam on 19 March.<\/p>\n
Elisabeth Munck af Rosensch\u00f6ld, head of sustainability at IKEA Global Transport & Logistics Services, said: \u201cThrough our pilot we want to show that the means for decarbonisation in terms of alternative fuels are available.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cWith a successful pilot completed, our intention is to put the equivalent of at least all our containers out of Rotterdam on biofuel.<\/p>\n
Robust research<\/strong><\/p>\n The sustainable marine bio-fuel oil has already undergone three years of intensive testing with marine engine manufacturers.<\/p>\n Allard Castelein, CEO, Port of Rotterdam, added: ” This bunkering shows that decarbonisation of sea trade is well achievable.<\/p>\n He said that to support industry decarbonisation initiatives, the port will spend the next four years investing \u20ac5m on specific projects to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the global shipping industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Port of Rotterdam is taking part in a first of its kind partnership to test a new sustainable marine bio-fuel oil in a bid to demonstrate its scaleability and technical compliance and help decarbonise the shipping industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}