Bunker One and Shade Line collaborate on profitable gas swap to B100 Biofuel.
For nearly one month, Bunker One has provided B100 biofuel to Shade Line’s SuperSpeed 1 and a couple of ferries travelling between Hirtshals in Denmark and Larvik and Kristiansand in Norway. With this swap to biofuel, Shade Line’s two passenger ferries have diminished CO2 emissions by roughly 85% on common on the biofuel portions used.
The quite a few advantages of the B100 biofuel, similar to CO2 emissions discount, power effectivity, and no required modifications to vessel engines, have been the first motivation behind Shade Line’s piloting of low-carbon biofuel. Geared up with technical experience and intensive know-how on decrease carbon fuels, compliance, and the regulatory panorama for delivery, Bunker One managed to seek out the most effective answer that accommodated Shade Line’s wants.
With the EU ETS that took impact as of 1st January and the FuelEU Maritime slightly below a 12 months away, Bunker One has been getting ready for the anticipated enhance in demand for decrease carbon fuels, similar to biofuel. Bunker One’s group of specialists has been operating quite a few laboratory assessments and supplied technical steerage in reference to biofuel trial runs with shoppers, making Bunker One an adept provider and logistics accomplice.
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Per Erik Olsen, EVP Marine & Technical in Shade Line mentioned:
We’re delighted with the outcomes from our collaboration with Bunker One, who has been a longstanding enterprise accomplice to Shade Line.
“We now have drawn on their capability and technical experience, they usually have been instrumental in catering to our particular wants and thus guaranteeing a seamless and efficient supply,”
Via shut collaboration and succeeding technical conferences, Shade Line and Bunker One developed an in depth supply and operations plan.
Peter Zachariassen, CEO of Bunker One mentioned:
Our collaboration with Shade Line on the provision of biofuel is a major instance of what we do finest, which is tailoring options to the person wants of our shoppers.
“We ensured that the well timed deliveries to Shade Line’s two passenger ferries have been orchestrated with nice consideration to element and coordination between all events concerned to match the brief port stays of the ferries. And it’s this fast transition that highlights the worth of a detailed partnership between Shade Line and Bunker One,”
Domestically sourced biofuel impacts well-to-wake emissions. Conscious of the significance of lowering CO2 emissions from nicely to wake, Bunker One and Shade Line agreed to supply the high-quality B100 biofuel utilized in Shade Line’s SuperSpeed 1 and a couple of ferries from Danish DAKA ecoMotion.
The FAME-grade/RED II-compliant B100 biofuel is produced domestically in Denmark from natural waste. In line with DAKA ecoMotion, switching from fossil fuels to B100 biofuel can scale back GHG emissions by round 85% in comparison with the transport diesel default worth of 94gCO2eq/MJ.
Navigating present and upcoming rules The demand for decrease carbon fuels is on the rise, introduced on by the getting into into drive of the IMO CII, the current adoption of the Gas EU Maritime regulation, and the inclusion of delivery within the EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime getting into into drive in 2025.
Therefore, Bunker One’s position has transcended from being a bodily provider to now additionally incorporating the supply of skilled recommendation on how Bunker One’s shoppers can finest guarantee they adhere to present and upcoming rules.
“By utilising cross-organisational synergies and teaming up with our sister firm International Danger Administration, we will present our shoppers with the mandatory consultancy on EU ETS and recommendation on how they’ll finest meet their coverage targets, offering them with a kind of one-stop-shop answer. For a while now we’ve been serving to a lot of our clients to arrange for the EU ETS and the acquisition of EUAs in a approach that most closely fits their particular person working fashions,” says Peter Zachariassen.
About Shade Line Shade Line AS is Norway’s largest and one in every of Europe’s main cruise and transport corporations, yearly carrying virtually 4 million folks, 900,000 passenger vehicles and 180,000 freight items to and from Norway. The corporate operates a fleet of 5 ships serving 4 worldwide ferry routes between seven ports in Norway, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Be taught extra: colorline.com
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