Written by
Nick Blenkey
Picture: Neste
The California marine business is to get simpler entry to renewable diesel. This has develop into more and more vital since California’s Industrial Harbor Craft (CHC) regulation, established by the California Air Sources Board (CARB), took impact on January 1, 2023. The regulation requires business harbor craft within the state to make use of renewable diesel (additionally recognized domestically as R99 or R100) as a substitute of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD), to restrict emissions reminiscent of particulate matter and nitrogen oxides for vessels working within the state’s ports and close to the coast. The regulation applies to using on-water diesel fuels in California harbors, ports, navigable waterways, marinas and marine navigation districts.
Now Neste is partnering with PTL Marine to offer Neste MY Renewable Diesel to the marine sector throughout the state. PTL Marine is a division of Pilot Thomas Logistics, a number one supplier of maritime gas and lubricants, provides and last-mile logistics.
“Our partnership with PTL Marine demonstrates renewable diesel’s wide selection of functions within the heavy-duty sectors,” says Carrie Tune, vp, renewable highway transportation, Americas at Neste. “We’re excited to see California actively encouraging using renewable diesel outdoors of highway transportation to cut back emissions, particularly from older engines. With strategic companions like PTL Marine, we look ahead to serving to California’s marine business have simpler entry to this extra sustainable various.”
Tune is to talk at Marine Log’s FERRIES 2023 subsequent week, the place she is going to deal with how Hornblower is already utilizing renewable diesel and discovering that it delivers advantages that transcend regulatory compliance.
As Neste MY Renewable Diesel has the same chemical composition to fossil diesel, it may be used as a drop-in resolution in all diesel-powered vessels with out investments into new fleets, modifications to engines or to the gas distribution infrastructure. It additionally delivers robust efficiency and meets all the CARB necessities, together with a flash level of 140ºF or higher.
With lengthy expertise in offering fuels and lubricants to marine prospects, PTL Marine can ship Neste MY Renewable Diesel to prospects in a well timed method with three modes of supply – truck to the vessel, dockside companies, and barge to the vessel. These numerous supply modes allow a variety of harbor craft, and different vessels of all sizesm to simply entry renewable gas.
“We’re happy to be working alongside Neste to ship a high-quality, dependable provide of renewable diesel for our west coast prospects,” says Steven Taylor, enterprise growth supervisor at PTL Marine. “Partnering with an organization that shares our values and embodies our dedication to innovation makes this an thrilling partnership.”
Finnish headquartered Neste has been supplying renewable diesel to California since 2016. Neste now has an annual manufacturing capability of 1.14 billion gallons (3.3 million tons) of renewable merchandise globally. The manufacturing capability will additional improve to 1.9 billion gallons (5.5 million tons) in early 2024 because of the ramp-up of manufacturing at Neste’s expanded refinery in Singapore and its joint operation with Marathon Petroleum in Martinez, Calif.
