The IAPH Clean Marine Fuels (CMF) working group has just completed work on developing safety tools for methanol and other alcohol-based fuels as a marine fuel with a total of seven safety bunkering checklists for both ship-to-ship and truck-to-ship transfer scenarios. The working group is chaired by Peter Alkema of the Port of Amsterdam and its safety workstream is coordinated by Cees Boon of the Port of Rotterdam, alongside leading experts from member ports. The group’s experience gained over the last decade in developing IAPH liquefied gas bunker checklists for LNG has been used to create checklists for other new alternative fuels, such as liquefied biogas (LBG) and liquid hydrogen (LH2). The bunker checklists are available for use by all ports and can be downloaded from the World Ports Sustainability Program portal dedicated to the Clean Marine Fuels Working Group. The launch of the checklists coincides with the upcoming delivery and entry into service of the first methanol-fuelled feeder container ship to Maersk in the coming months, as announced in the video below.
