{"id":3728,"date":"2023-09-22T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/09\/22\/egypts-first-permit-for-green-methanol-supply\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:06:54","slug":"egypts-first-permit-for-green-methanol-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/egypts-first-permit-for-green-methanol-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s first permit for green methanol supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its LinkedIn post the firm said it will be supplying the fuel at East Port Said and West Port Said.<\/p>\n<p>The General Authority of Suez Canal Economic Zone\u2019s board of directors has approved a six-month renewable permit for OCI Global\u2019s renewable and low-carbon fuels subsidiary, OCI HyFuels, to provide green methanol bunkering services at both ports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe permit is a direct response to growing demand for green methanol as a marine fuel as the industry recognizes its readiness, efficacy and safety,\u201d said the social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt lays the groundwork for future green methanol powered ships by formalising the process established by our successful bunkering of the world\u2019s first green methanol powered container ship in East Port Said earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth ports are along the Suez Canal, through which around 12% of global marine traffic and 30% of container traffic passes each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an important milestone in establishing Egypt as a crucial green methanol bunkering hub and a leader in shipping decarbonisation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean energy firm, OCI Global, has won the first permit to supply green methanol as a bunker fuel in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-greenport","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","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=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}