Americas News

Some 388,640 metric tonnes (mt) of marine fuel were sold in Panama last month – 16,585 mt (4.5%) more than the 372,055 mt recorded in the same month in 2020.

An abundance of renewable energy potential along with direct access to busy shipping routes makes Mexico well-positioned to build a valuable zero carbon shipping fuels sector, according to a study conducted by Ricardo and EDF for the P4G Getting to Zero Coalition Partnership.

Energy infrastructure company Kinder Morgan is partnering with Finnish Neste to create a domestic raw material storage and logistics hub in the United States.

EDP is set to build a green hydrogen pilot plant in Brazil’s Pecém Industrial and Port Complex that is scheduled to start production in late 2022.

The President of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), Harold Daggett, has warned shipping lines and developers of fully automated containerships that ILA members will not work ships without crews aboard.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $64.7 million in funding for projects focused on producing cost-effective, low-carbon biofuels.

As part of its strategy to build up its presence in the renewables sector, Neste has agreed to buy the Minnesota-based waste and residue fat and oil trader Agri Trading.

BC Ferries’ has reported that its latest hybrid electric Island Class ferry, Island 5, transited the Panama Canal over the weekend and is expected to arrive in British Columbia by late-September.

Chevron will be working with Caterpillar to develop hydrogen demonstration projects, stationary power applications and transportation applications – including shipping.

LyondellBasell has confirmed that it is ‘weighing strategic options’ for its refining operations in the US Gulf Coast, and this could include ‘a potential sale’.