A.P. Moller – Maersk has partnered with REintegrate, to produce green fuel for its first methanol-powered containership, says a press release published on their website.
About the partnership
Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller – Maersk has partnered with REintegrate, a subsidiary of the Danish renewable energy company European Energy, to produce green fuel for its first methanol-powered containership.
A new Danish facility
The renewable energy company will establish a new Danish facility to produce approximately 10,000 tonnes of e-methanol that Maersk’s carbon-neutral vessel will consume annually.
e-methanol production
The methanol facility will use renewable energy and biogenic CO2 to produce e-methanol. On the other hand, the energy needed for power-to-methanol production will be provided by a solar farm in Kassø, Southern Denmark.
The partners have yet to decide where in Denmark the facility will be located, while the fuel production is expected to start in 2023.
“While renewable energy is becoming more and more common in the energy mix of electricity consumption, this is one of the first steps in heavy transportation towards using 100% renewable energy,” said Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Energy.
Maersk’s carbon-neutral methanol plan
In June 2021, Maersk revealed that the company is in talks with equipment suppliers and yards on the order of a methanol-powered containership.
Furthermore, the shipping major announced plans to order the world’s first container vessel that can operate on carbon-neutral methanol in February 2021.
Methanol feeder
The vessel will be a methanol feeder with a capacity of around 2,000 TEU and it would be deployed in one of Maersk’s intra-regional networks.
Maersk plans to launch the carbon-neutral liner vessel in 2023, seven years ahead of the initial 2030-ambition.
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Source: Maersk
