\u2018Ane Maersk\u2019 bunkered 4.300 tonnes of green methanol and 1.375 tonnes of biodiesel (B100) during the port stay at the MSC PSA European Terminal (MPET). <\/p>\n
\u201cAs the fifth largest bunkering port in the world, we are committed to playing a pioneering role in the integration of climate neutral fuels to the bunker market,\u201d said Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO Port of Antwerp-Bruges.<\/p>\n
\u201dPort of Antwerp-Bruges will provide facilities where possible, make both platforms multifuel ready and is itself committed to making its fleet greener by using alternative fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n
Methanol move<\/strong><\/p>\n During the bunkering operation, TankMatch dispatched two barges to transfer 4.300 tonnes of green methanol onto the Ane Maersk. Subsequently, a barge from VT Group delivered 1.375 tonnes of biodiesel (B100) .<\/p>\n The bunkering process was integrated into the vessel\u2019s port stay, combining bunkering simultaneously with on and off-loading of cargo. The so called \u2018simultaneous operations\u2019 (SIMOPS) increased the efficiency of the port stay by lowering additional time allocation for refuelling. <\/p>\n For Port of Antwerp-Bruges, this is also a milestone in its ambition to become a multifuel port, where a multitude of different climate neutral fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia, methane and methanol are available for bunkering, in addition to the range of bio and conventional bunker fuels already available.<\/p>\n In June 2023, the very first methanol bunkering operation took place at Port of Antwerp-Bruges, when 475 metric tonnes of methanol were bunkered onto the tanker Stena Pro Marine.<\/p>\n Port of Antwerp-Bruges already has the capacity to store climate neutral fuels for use within its industrial cluster and distribution to the hinterland.<\/p>\n In the context of the broad energy transition, where hydrogen carriers like methanol, ammonia, and methane are set to play pivotal roles, Antwerp-Bruges is one of many tank storage terminals that have invested in extra capacity or are planning to do so.<\/p>\n The call at Antwerp is part of Ane Maersk\u2019s maiden voyage from South Korea to China, fuelled by green methanol. It\u2019s the first of Maersk\u2019s 18 large methanol-enabled vessels that will be delivered between 2024 and 2025 and world\u2019s second methanol-enabled container vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world\u2019s first large methanol-powered deep-sea vessel has\u00a0completed its first bunker operation in European waters setting a new milestone in Port of Antwerp-Bruges\u2019 ambition to become a multifuel port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[40,552,264,47,488,9],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-biodiesel","tag-bunkering","tag-methanol","tag-port-of-antwerp-bruges","tag-ports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}