A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Tuesday it had ordered eight vessels which are able to run on carbon-neutral methanol to accelerate the decarbonisation of its fleet and meet increased customer demand for greener transportation.
Shipping containers are transpoted on a Maersk Line vessel through the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalshsaid on Tuesday it had ordered eight vessels which are able to run on carbon-neutral methanol to accelerate the decarbonisation of its fleet and meet increased customer demand for greener transportation.
The eight vessels, which can each carry 16,000 containers, will be build by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy IndustriesThe vessels will be 10-15% more expensive than normal ones and will each cost $175 million, Maersk's head of fleet technology Ole Graa Jakobsen said. So-called green methanol can be produced either directly from biomass or via renewable hydrogen combined with carbon from either biomass or carbon capture.
"We're in it for our customers ... and thankfully they are very appreciative of this and demand is really growing," Maersk's head of decarbonisation Morten Bo Christiansen told journalists.
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