Amsterdam hosts first ship-to-ship methanol bunkering

OCI HyFuels has supplied 500 mt of bio-methanol to Dutch marine contractor Van Oord's dual-fuel offshore installation vessel in Amsterdam.

IMAGE: View of the Port of Amsterdam. Getty Images

OCI HyFuels is the green fuel arm of OCI Global and the bio-methanol was produced using waste and residual flows.

The OCI-chartered vessel Chicago delivered the fuel to Van Oord’s vessel, Boreas, in a ship-to-ship bunker operation. Chicago has also been retrofitted with a dual-fuel methanol engine to run on methanol.

Amsterdam's port authority plans to promote hydrogen and ammonia bunkering alongside methanol and LNG as part of its “multi-fuel” strategy.

“To achieve this, we are working on developing safety standards that enable the bunkering of alternative fuels in the Port of Amsterdam,” Henri van der Weide, clean shipping advisor at Port of Amsterdam said.

By Konica Bhatt

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