IMO Takes Important Step to Facilitate Use of Methanol

• IMO CC5 sub-committee has made a draft interim guidelines for fuel safety.
• The methanol fuel safety draft will be discussed at the MSC 100 meeting in December.
• The plan is to add methanol/ ethanol in the Low-flashpoint Fuels IGF Code.
• Methanol is sulphur free and emits low NOx.
• The draft defines it as a suitable fuel safe for operations on board ships.

In a major development, an IMO sub-committee has completed draft interim guidelines for the safety of ships using methyl/ethyl alcohol as...

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