Varo Energy supplies first 100% biofuel stem to Unifeeder vessel

The Unifeeder-operated vessel Elbsummer was bunkered with a 400 mt B100 stem from Varo in the Port of Rotterdam.

PHOTO: Unifeeder's Elbsummer. Vessel finder

Varo Energy claims that its B100 waste-based biofuel can reduces carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90% on a well-to-exhaust basis, and eliminate sulphur oxide emissions almost entirely.

Elbsummer trialled a B50 biofuel-MGO blend supplied by GoodFuels last September, and has since been undergoing a "major engine overhaul" to prepare it to consume 100% biofuel.

Unifeeder seeks to take up biofuel across its fleet within the year, according to the company's fuel supply director Hans Staal.

Rotterdam included bio-bunkers in its sales figures for the first time last year. Sales more than doubled from 52,000 mt in the first quarter, to 127,000 mt in the fourth.