X-Press Feeders completes bio-methanol bunkering in Singapore

The dual-fuel vessel bunkered around 300 mt of bio-methanol at the Vopak Penjuru Terminal in Singapore.

PHOTO: The refuelling operation of the methanol dual-fuel vessel. X-Press Feeders

Its X-Press Feeder's first vessel to dock and refuel with bio-methanol in Singapore, X-Press Feeders said. The dual-fuel vessel, constructed by the Chinese New Yangzijiang Shipyard, is equipped with the German engine manufacturer's MAN dual-fuel engine. It is currently on its maiden voyage from Shanghai to Rotterdam.

Singapore-based container shipping firm X-Press Feeders collaborated with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Singapore-based Global Energy Trading (GET) and the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) for the operation.

The ISCC-certified bio-methanol supplied by methanol producer OCI Global was delivered using the bunker tanker Kara. The MPA also trialled a mass flow metering (MFM) system for methanol for the operation. 

By Manjula Nair 

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