Sea Commerce Hosts Seminar on Methanol As Marine Fuel

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  • Sea Commerce is hosting commercial and technical seminars on methanol as a marine fuel in Brazil.
  • The seminars will be held on the 13th of September, 2019 at the JW Marriott.
  • The targeted audiences are shipowners, operators, ship managers, bunker suppliers, port & terminal operators, vessel operators, and regulatory authorities.

Sea Commerce Consultants, along with sponsors will hold the next in its series of commercial and technical seminars on methanol as a marine fuel, says a press release published on their website.

Methanol as a commercial fuel

The company along with its partners including the Methanol Institute (MI), Methanex and FedCom and supported by Waterfront Shipping, Marinvest, ABAC and MAN, will hold the next in its series of commercials and technical seminars on methanol as a marine fuel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Target audience

The seminar will be held on the 13th of September, 2019 at the JW Marriott, Copacabana with presentations in English with Portuguese translation. Shipowners & operators, ship managers, bunker suppliers, port & terminal operators, inland waterway and offshore vessel operators and regulatory authorities are among the targeted attendees.

Key speaker for the event

Featured speakers will include Captain Saleem Alavi of Sea Commerce, Kjeld Aabo of MAN, Captain Fernando Gomes Coordinator, MEPC Brazilian IMO Executive Secretariat, Jason Chesko of Methanex, Luiz Resano of ABAC Brazil, and Lawrence Navin of Methanol Institute.

Topics to be covered

The seminar will cover a wide variety of topics, including methanol’s potential to address Tier III NOx regulation compliance in addition to its ability to provide IMO-2020 SOx compliance.

Looking further ahead the seminar will discuss the potential of renewable methanol to enable the shipping industry to comply with IMO CO2 emission reduction targets in 2030 and 2050.

Information on the global availability of methanol as a marine fuel together with technical and operational challenges will be considered. The seminar will also include an economic comparison between methanol and other alternative fuels.

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Source: SeaCommerce