Three leading Japanese companies, NYK Line, NYK Bulk & Projects Carriers (NBP) and Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. are planning to build a ship powered by wood pellets under an MOU signed with U.K. based Drax Group. Drax produces the wood pellets , which are categorized as “biomass,” in both the southern U.S. and Canada. The company has a longstanding relationship with NBP which transports its pellets to Japan.
According to Drax the biomass wood pellets produce 80% less CO2 emissions when...
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In the first three quarters of 2018, total throughput in the port of Rotterdam was 0.4% lower than in the same period the previous year.
Container volumes continued to grow at a markedly higher pace than the first nine months of 2017 – even recording a new all-time high in August. Wet and dry bulk, however, showed a decline in volume – although LNG and biomass were two positive outliers within these product segments.
All in all, 350 million tonnes of cargo was handled in the port of Rotterdam, a...