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With the only methanol bunkering infrastructure situated in Northern Europe, it seems Asia-Europe is the most viable trade for Maersk’s new 16,000teu vessel design.
However, Maersk may need to wait a while before it can run its vessels on the new fuel.
The routes are “still to be decided”, explained Maersk’s Concepción Boo Arias. “But if you look at where the Hong-Kong class vessels are deployed, you will have an idea of where these new vessels will be deployed.
“It is going to be dependent on where we can refuel them. The current [green methanol] bunkering locations are in Northern Europe… but it is not going to be the same reality in two years’ time.”