
The Port of Singapore, the world’s busiest transshipment hub and largest bunkering port, reported a growing demand for greener fuels in 2023 as it continues streamlining efforts towards a multi-fuel future.

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) has booked a new order for the construction of two very large ammonia carriers (VLACs).

Ammonia fuel system design developed as part of a project to install an ammonia-powered fuel cell on an offshore vessel has received preliminary approval.

HD Hyundai Mipo has laid the keel for the first of six new 46,000 cbm midsize LPG/ammonia carriers ordered by EXMAR LPG.

Purus and Bluewater have formed an alliance for the worldwide provision of clean energy floating storage and offloading (FSO) solutions for low-carbon ammonia, clean hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS).

Wärtsilä Gas Solutions (WGS), part of Finnish technology group Wärtsilä, has been selected to deliver fuel supply and cargo handling systems for two new gas carriers that will operate with ammonia fuel.

Técnicas Reunidas has signed an agreement with IGNIS to provide engineering services for the design of up to five green ammonia projects in Spain.

Multinational commodity trading company Trafigura Group has completed its first ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of ammonia in international waters close to the port of Ceuta in the Strait of Gibraltar.

The Egyptian government and the EU are advancing green hydrogen and green ammonia incentives through new private investment agreements.

Chinese shipbuilder Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co. (CIMC SOE) has secured an order for liquefied ammonia fuel tanks to be used on the ‘world’s first’ ammonia-powered bulk carrier.

Amogy and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding have completed the feasibility study of collaboration concept designs of onboard hydrogen production and utilization with Amogy’s ammonia-cracking technology and Mitsubishi’s ammonia supply and safety system MAmmoSS.

Japanese shipping major NYK and compatriot liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) trader and importer Astomos Energy Corporation have held a delivery and naming ceremony for a new LPG dual-fuel LPG/ammonia carrier.

Argus has launched a Japan Korea Low-Carbon Ammonia Benchmark (JKLAB) to assist companies trading low-carbon hydrogen products distributed to markets in Northeast Asia.

Hygenco Green Energies and Ameropa have signed a term sheet in view of the potential supply of green ammonia from Hygenco’s planned ammonia project in Odisha, India.