The first voyage of the Maersk container ship using biofuel has successfully completed – Kommersant

In Hamburg moored The Ane Maersk, a biofuel-powered vessel, marks the successful completion of the maiden voyage of the first large container ship of its kind. This is a 350-meter container ship, built by order of Maersk and designed to transport 16.6 thousand 20-foot (about 6 m) containers. The ship was built at the shipyard of the South Korean company HD Hyundai Heavy Industries in the city of Ulsan. Ane Maersk performed the first flight on the route from the Chinese port of Ningbo to Hamburg.

Maersk presented container ship powered by biofuel – green methanol – last year. Maersk says that when using this fuel, the ship emits 100 tons of carbon dioxide per day less than with conventional diesel. In the next two years, Maersk should have about two dozen such ships. Other ocean carriers are also ordering container ships that run on biofuels.

Yana Rozhdestvenskaya