Neste companions with PTL Marine to provide renewable diesel to marine prospects throughout California.
Neste is partnering with PTL Marine to supply Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ to the marine sector throughout the State of California. PTL Marine, a division of Pilot Thomas Logistics, is a number one supplier of maritime gasoline and lubricants, provides and last-mile logistics. By means of this collaboration the state’s marine business may have simpler entry to renewable diesel.
California’s Industrial Harbor Craft (CHC) regulation, established by the California Air Assets Board (CARB), took impact on January 1, 2023. This regulation requires industrial harbor craft vessels within the state to make use of renewable diesel (additionally recognized domestically as R99 or R100) as an alternative of ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD), to restrict emissions comparable to particulate matter and nitrogen oxides for vessels working within the state’s ports and close to the coast.
The regulation applies to the usage of on-water diesel fuels in California harbors, ports, navigable waterways, marinas and marine navigation districts.
Carrie Track, Vice President, Renewable Street Transportation, Americas at Neste stated:
Our partnership with PTL Marine demonstrates renewable diesel’s wide selection of purposes within the heavy-duty sectors.
“We’re excited to see California actively encouraging the usage of renewable diesel exterior of street transportation to scale back emissions, particularly from older engines. With strategic companions like PTL Marine, we sit up for serving to California’s marine business have simpler entry to this extra sustainable different.”
Ports are essential for the US financial system, however port-related emissions from fossil gasoline use influence public well being and the local weather, in response to the US Environmental Safety Company (EPA). A CARB analysis discovered that renewable diesel, when put next with fossil diesel, can present as much as a 26.6% discount in wonderful particulate emissions and as much as 11.8% discount within the emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in harbor crafts geared up with a Tier 2 marine-certified engine.
Moreover, renewable diesel is an instantly accessible resolution to scale back greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions. Comprised of sustainably-sourced, 100% renewable uncooked supplies, the usage of Neste MY Renewable Diesel leads to as much as 75%* lowered GHG emissions over its life cycle in comparison with fossil diesel.
Since 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 car fleets, modifications to the engines or the gasoline distribution infrastructure. It additionally delivers robust efficiency and meets the entire CARB necessities, together with a flash level of 140ºF or larger.
With many years of 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 varied supply modes allow a spread of harbor craft, from small ferries to massive industrial fishing boats, in addition to offshore working boats and enormous cargo ships to simply entry renewable gasoline.
Steven Taylor, Enterprise Growth Supervisor, PTL Marine stated:
We’re happy to be working alongside Neste to ship a high-quality, dependable provide of renewable diesel for our west coast prospects.
“Partnering with an organization that shares our values and embodies our dedication to innovation makes this an thrilling partnership.”
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 enhance to 1.9 billion gallons (5.5 million tons) in early 2024 due to the ramp-up of manufacturing at Neste’s expanded refinery in Singapore and the corporate’s joint operation with Marathon Petroleum in Martinez, CA.
*) The GHG emission discount proportion varies relying on the region-specific laws that gives the methodology for the calculations (e.g. U.S. California LCFS for the U.S.), and the uncooked materials combine used to fabricate the product for every market.
Additional data: Please contact Neste’s media service, tel. +358 800 94025 / media@neste.com (weekdays from 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. EET). Please subscribe to Neste’s releases at https://www.neste.com/for-media/releases-and-news/subscribe.
Please go to nestemy.com for extra details about Neste MY Renewable Diesel or contact PTL Marine to make the change.
Neste in short
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates options for combating local weather change and accelerating a shift to a round financial system. The corporate refines waste, residues and revolutionary uncooked supplies into renewable fuels and sustainable feedstock for plastics and different supplies.
Because the world’s main producer of sustainable aviation gasoline and renewable diesel and a forerunner in growing renewable and round feedstock options for polymers and chemical compounds, Neste helps its prospects to scale back their greenhouse gasoline emissions by a minimum of 20 million tons yearly by 2030.
The corporate’s ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland probably the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. Neste is dedicated to reaching carbon-neutral manufacturing by 2035, and can cut back the carbon emission depth of bought merchandise by 50% by 2040. Neste has additionally set excessive requirements for biodiversity, human rights and the availability chain.
The corporate has persistently been included within the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the International 100 record of the world’s most sustainable firms. In 2022, Neste’s income stood at EUR 25.7 billion. Learn extra: neste.com
About PTL Marine
For greater than 85 years, PTL Marine and its legacy firms have offered high quality services and products to the inland and coastal maritime business together with fuels, lubricants, groceries, provides, liquid terminalling and last-mile logistics options.
With an unparalleled give attention to the client and status for handy one-stop procuring and reliability, PTL Marine serves its valued prospects 24/7/365 with operations alongside the Mississippi River, the U.S. Gulf Coast and the U.S. West Coast. For extra data, go to www.PTLMarine.com
Neste companions with PTL Marine to provide renewable diesel to marine prospects throughout California, November 6, 2023
