Flotte Hamburg to test HVO 100 on its fleet

German fleet manager Flotte Hamburg will test HVO 100 (hydrotreated vegetable oil) on three of its vessels.

IMAGE: The Port of Hamburg with the Elbe river. Getty Images

The fuel is palm oil-free and is made from food waste.

The biofuel is supplied by global oil and gas firm Shell in collaboration with German marine fuel supplier Friedrich G. Frommann. It meets the sustainability criteria set out in the European Union’s RED II directive, Hamburg port authority said in a statement.

It will be trialled on three of Flotte Hamburg’s vessels – HafenKapitan, Deepenschriewer III, and Neßsand.

If the trials prove successful, the fuel could be rolled out across the Hamburg fleet, it added.

By Nachiket Tekawade

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