Maersk has secured green e-methanol supply for the world’s first container vessel operating on carbon neutral fuel.

The company has now identified Reintegrate as a partner to produce green fuel for its first vessel to operate on carbon neutral methanol. Reintegrate is a subsidiary of the Danish renewable energy company European Energy and will establish a new Danish facility to produce the 10,000 tonnes of carbon neutral e-methanol that Maersk’s first vessel will consume annually.

Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, CEO of fleet and strategic brands said: “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. Sourcing the fuels of the future is a significant challenge, and we need to be able to scale production in time.”

The methanol facility will use energy from a solar farm in Kassø and biogenic CO2 to produce the e-methanol. The fuel production is expected to start in 2023.

Maersk announced the dual fuel vessel, in February 2021. In June, Maersk announced that Hyundai Mipo Dockyards will be building the 2100 TEU (twenty foot equivalent) feeder.The world’s first methanol feeder will be 172 metres long and it is expected to join the Maersk fleet in mid-2023. It will sail in the network of Sealand Europe, a Maersk subsidiary, on the Baltic shipping route between Northern Europe and the Bay of Bothnia. It will fly the Danish flag

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