{"id":5882,"date":"2025-11-24T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/11\/24\/watch-singapore-all-set-to-offer-methanol-bunkering\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:19:40","slug":"watch-singapore-all-set-to-offer-methanol-bunkering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/watch-singapore-all-set-to-offer-methanol-bunkering\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Singapore all set to offer methanol bunkering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This move, which follows the Call for&nbsp;Applications launched in March 2025, marks an important step towards establishing&nbsp;methanol bunkering at scale and driving Singapore\u2019s ambition to be a sustainable multi-fuel&nbsp;bunkering hub.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supply chain reliability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Licences will be awarded to Global Energy Trading Pte Ltd, Golden Island Pte Ltd and&nbsp;PetroChina International (Singapore) Pte Ltd, which were selected from&nbsp;a total of 13 applicants through a comprehensive evaluation process that assessed supply&nbsp;chain reliability, operational readiness, safety systems, and the sustainability certification of&nbsp;the methanol to be supplied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The licences will be valid for a five-year period, from 1 January 2026 to&nbsp;31 December 2030, subject to successful applicants meeting relevant licensing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year period supports the early development of methanol bunkering by giving&nbsp;licensees sufficient scope to build capabilities, strengthen supply chains, and anchor initial&nbsp;investments as the market develops.<\/p>\n<p>MPA said it will continue to review the licensing framework, incorporating operational&nbsp;experience, technological developments, and evolving international standards along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/environment-and-sustainability\/green-fuel-sales-surge-at-singapore\/1499171.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sales of alternative fuels in Singapore surpassed 1 million tonnes<\/a> for the first time in 2024, marking a significant milestone of the port as a bunkering hub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/environment-and-sustainability\/driving-global-adoption-of-alternative-fuels\/1501025.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Singapore is working together cooperatively with the Port of Rotterdam<\/a> to conduct further studies and trials for the bunkering of bio-methane, methanol and ammonia to support their future use along the Rotterdam-Singapore Green and Digital Shipping Corridor.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis is particularly on bio and e-variants of ammonia, methanol and methane and making them more available, accepted and affordable for large-scale use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will issue licences to supply\u00a0methanol as marine fuel in the Port of Singapore from 1 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42],"tags":[40,2271,376,47,719],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-asia-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-fuel-bunkering","tag-maritime-and-port-authority-of-singapore","tag-methanol","tag-mpa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","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=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}