Another methanol-fueled tanker joins Proman Stena Bulk - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

Proman Stena Bulk, the associated task betwixt tanker institution Stena Bulk and methanol shaper Proman, has successfully taken transportation of a further methanol-fueled tanker, Stena Prosperous.

The 49,990 DWT vas was successfully delivered from Guangzhou Shipyard International Co Ltd (GSI) and volition present participate commercialized cognition moving afloat connected methanol.

The associated task present has 4 vessels actively trading and bunkering afloat connected the low-emission aboriginal fuel. The 4th vessel joins the Proman Stena Bulk-owned Stena Pro Patria and Stena Pro Marine, and the Proman-owned Stena Promise, which were each delivered successful 2022.

The associated task fleet has already loaded methanol substance successful Ulsan, Trinidad and Rotterdam successful the past year, with different large bunkering hubs to travel successful 2023.

Stena Prosperous, similar the different methanol-fuelled associated task vessels, has a debased EEDI (Energy Efficiency Design Index) worth portion moving connected methanol. The IMOIIMeMax vas bid benefits from industry-leading plan improvements and technologies to maximise vigor ratio and minimise substance consumption, resulting successful an EEDI 11% beneath the 2025 Phase 3 requirements and mounting a caller benchmark for mid-range tankers.

Moreover, the vessels’ motor designs marque the ships acceptable to execute incoming emissions simplification targets, arsenic greater quantities of precise low-carbon bluish and renewable methanol becomes disposable for blending and bunkering successful the adjacent future.

Stena Prosperous volition usage astir 12,500 tonnes of methanol arsenic substance per year. Conventional methanol from earthy state virtually eliminates SOx and particulate matter, cuts NOx by 60%, and reduces CO2 emissions from the vessel’s operations by up to 15% connected a tank-to-wake basis, compared to accepted marine fuels.

It’s fantastic to beryllium capable to extremity 2022 with a 4th methanol tanker joining our associated task fleet. These vessels are genuinely pioneering and conscionable the highest standards of safety, sustainability and efficiency, laying down a marker for what is already possible

Erik Hånell, President and CEO of Stena Bulk, said.

Last month, Proman Stena Bulk formally named its archetypal newbuild IMOIIMeMAX methanol-fueled vessel, Stena Pro Patria, successful a ceremonial hosted successful Trinidad and Tobago connected 23rd November 2022.

Stena Pro Patria is the archetypal of 3 methanol-fuelled vessels delivered successful 2022 to the associated task betwixt starring tanker institution Stena Bulk and the methanol shaper Proman, with a further 3 newbuilds owed for transportation betwixt present and 2024.