Last weekend, the container ship Eco Levant, operated by X-Press Feeders, was bunkered with ethanol in the port of Rotterdam. It is one of the first times worldwide, and the first time in Rotterdam, that a bunker vessel supplied ethanol to a sea-going vessel.
Blend of ethanol and methanol
The vessel has been operating on a blend of ethanol and methanol since the bunkering.
The fuel blend consisted of 90% ISCC EU-certified biomethanol and 10% ISCC EU-certified second-generation ethanol and was safely bunkered under controlled operational conditions. Methanol bunkering is already well established.
Ethanol and methanol were bunkered separately on the sea-going vessel. Both fuels were delivered separately by a single inland bunker vessel, and the batches were mixed (blended) on board the receiving vessel.
Tankmatch, a leading barge operator and expert in methanol bunkering, supplied the methanol and ethanol with their bunker barge MTS Experience.
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