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New e-methanol facility to supply Maersk’s carbon-neutral box ship
AP Moller–Maersk’s carbon-neutral feeder ship will be supplied with e-methanol from REintegrate, a subsidiary of the Danish renewable energy company European Energy
A new Danish facility developed by REintegrate and European Energy will produce 10,000 tonnes of carbon-neutral e-methanol to meet the fuel consumption for Maersk’s newbuild 2,100-TEU feeder ship. The methanol facility will use renewable energy and biogenic CO2 to produce the e-methanol. The fuel production is expected to start in 2023.
The energy needed for the power-to-methanol production will be provided by a solar farm in Kassø, southern Denmark. It is yet to be decided where in Denmark the power-to-methanol facility will be located.
“This type of partnership could become a blueprint for how to scale green fuel production through collaboration with partners across the industry ecosystem, and it will provide us with valuable experiences as we are progressing on our journey to decarbonise our customers’ supply chains,” said AP Moller-Maersk fleet and strategic brands chief executive Henriette Hallberg Thygesen.
“Sourcing the fuels of the future is a significant challenge, and we need to be able to scale production in time. This agreement with REintegrate brings us on track to deliver on our ambition to have the world’s first container vessel operated on carbon-neutral methanol on the water by 2023,” she added.
The new facility will be REintegrate’s third e-methanol facility, as they are also constructing an e-methanol facility in Skive with startup in 2022.
“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 European Energy chief executive Knud Erik Andersen. “This agreement marks a milestone in the journey towards a green transition in the shipping industry,” said Mr Andersen.
Under construction at South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, the world’s first methanol feeder will be 172 m long and it is expected to join the Maersk fleet mid-2023, sailing in the network of Sealand Europe, a Maersk subsidiary, on the Baltic shipping route between northern Europe and the Bay of Bothnia.
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