{"id":3160,"date":"2023-03-20T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/03\/20\/study-details-the-potential-of-methanol-for-shipping\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:02:31","slug":"study-details-the-potential-of-methanol-for-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/study-details-the-potential-of-methanol-for-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Study details the potential of methanol for shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new study<\/a> conducted by the \u00d6ko-Institut on behalf of NABU, the German environment association, sets out the e-fuel\u2019s benefits and the important contribution it could make to decarbonising the shipping industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreen methanol is a climate and at the same time environmentally friendly fuel. However, a huge volumes of renewable electricity is required to produce the necessary quantity,\u201d said S\u00f6nke Diesener, NABU shipping expert.<\/p>\n

\u201dBut in shipping, unlike other industries, there is no way around e-fuels. To bring e-fuels to market as quickly as possible, the international requirements for limiting the climate impact in shipping must be adapted promptly and price differences compared with fossil fuels,\u201d <\/p>\n

Scaling up<\/strong><\/p>\n

NABU said that commercialisation of the fuel could be realised more quickly with a CO2 price, which must be compensated for as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

Mr Diesener added that the IMO \u201cmust not miss this year\u2019s chance to adopt climate neutrality by 2050 and advance an effective pricing of greenhouse gas emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be climate neutral, e-methanol must be produced using renewable energy and a sustainable source of CO2. Biomethanol or e-methanol with carbon sourced from biomass are not applicable solutions on a larger scale.<\/p>\n

The fuel offers advantages compared to fossil fuels such as diesel, heavy fuel oil and LNG, but also to e-ammonia. In the event of a leak, methanol dissolves very quickly in water. Vapours released into the air are also dispersed quickly.<\/p>\n

There are already safety guidelines for methanol in shipping in place, as well as empirical data from ships already operating on the fuel. <\/p>\n

The study said that in summary, the future fuel mix in all segments of shipping will become more diverse depending on the application. With appropriate production, e-methanol could make an important contribution to this, above all from a nature conservation perspective, but also from a climate perspective.<\/p>\n

For more on the benefits of methanol as a marine fuel see the latest article in GreenPort<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Methanol has enormous potential to make shipping greener because it\u2019s more straight forward to use than ammonia or hydrogen, that\u2019s if enough can be produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46],"tags":[40,879,269,47,921,188],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-energy-technology-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-green-methanol","tag-marine-fuels","tag-methanol","tag-nabu","tag-shipping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}