Nantes, France, headquartered EuroGreen Maritime SAS (EGM) reports that it has secured a seven-year charter agreement with Equinor ASA for four state-of-the-art MR IMO II product tankers, each fitted with a pair of Ayro OceanWings wing sails and powered by a MAN B&W dual-fuel methanol engine with a shaft generator, complemented by a battery-hybrid power generation system. According to Eurogreen Maritime, compared with conventional MR designs, GHG, SOx, and NOx emissions will be reduced by more...
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Eidesvik orders world’s first methanol-fueled CSV
Norwegian shipowners Eidesvik Offshore and Agalas have placed an order at Turkey’s Sefine Shipyard for a state-of-the-art, battery-hybrid methanol-fueled CSV (construction support vessel). It will be owned by an entity to be named Eidesvik Agalas AS, with Eidesvik holding a 50.1% majority stake, with the remainder owned by Agalas, which last year ordered its first vessel, an advanced offshore cable layer, at Sefine.
Set for deliver in 2026, the newly-ordered methanol-fueled CSV will be equipped...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/eidesvik-orders-worlds-first-methanol-fueled-csv/
Caterpillar and ORNL cooperate on methanol-fueled four-stroke R&D
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Caterpillar Inc. have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA, to investigate marine methanol-fueled four-stroke engines.
While methanol has been much in focus as a fuel for large, two-stroke powered oceangoing vessels, the availability of methanol-fueled four=strokes could see its adoption across a broad range of vessel types. ORNL, which categorizes the marine industry as a...
Wallenius Wilhelmsen orders engines for methanol-fueled car carrier quartet
Not too surprisingly, the series of giant methanol-fueled car carriers that Wallenius Wilhelmsen is building in China (see earlier story) will be powered by MAN B&W ME-LGIM main engines. The Oslo-listed RO/RO specialist has now placed an order with MAN Energy Solutions for the engines for the first four ships, each of which will be powered by an MAN B&W 7S60ME-C10.5-LGIM (-liquid gas injection methanol) dual-fuel engine capable of running on green methanol.
The 9,300 CEU (Car Equivalent Unit)...
MPC Container Ships orders methanol-fueled box ship duo
Oslo-headquartered MPC Container Ships ASA has joined the growing list of shipowners opting to order alternate-fueled newbuildings. It has placed an order with Chinese shipbuilder Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering for two carbon-neutral 1,300 TEU containerships powered by dual-fuel engines that enable operation on methanol as well as conventional MGO. In addition to an advanced hull design, optimized for economic sailing speeds, the methanol-fueled ships feature several onboard solutions...
https://www.marinelog.com/technology/mpc-container-ships-orders-methanol-fueled-box-ship-duo/