Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. (2023, August 21). NYK Tests Biofuels on Australian Voyage. MarineLink. https://www.marinelink.com/news/nyk-tests-biofuels-australian-voyage-507356
A successful trial run of biofuels from Japan to Australia was announced. Two companies supplied biofuel via ship to ship transfer to a bulk carrier. It was supplied with biofuel and then it sailed out. They hope that through the test voyage that it’ll expand the Japanese supply chain in Japan’s Kansai and Setouchi regions. They have previously tested supplying biofuel onto other carrier vessels but more as a side experiment, but they’re now mainly putting that as their full focus. They hope to further conduct test voyages onto multiple ships at once to test biofuels limits. This is all in attempts to reduce GHG emissions to eventually achieve the decarbonization of transportation.
The use of biofuels and environmental based research is now beginning to be used in larger transportation vessels. This shows that the science in biofuels has started to show major progress, and hopefully it’ll lead to a cleaner world.
The trial run of biofuels for larger transportation vessels is a promising development in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving transportation decarbonization. Are there any specific challenges or obstacles mentioned in the article that these companies anticipate when scaling up biofuels in larger shipping vessels, and how do they plan to address them?