Port of Santos to See Regular Ethanol Bunkering Operations
The Brazilian port plans more ethanol bunkering of CMA CGM container ships later this year.
The Port of Santos in Brazil has announced that ethanol will be regularly supplied as marine fuel in the port, following an initial operation involving container line CMA CGM, Copersucar and Bunker One.
The first operation under the new phase took place earlier this year, when the 13,000 TEU CMA CGM Iron was bunkered with ethanol, the port said in an announcement last week.
The vessel was supplied with 500,000 litres of anhydrous bioethanol at that time, marking the first bioethanol bunker supply in Latin America.
It is fitted with Everllence engine certified to run on ethanol, methanol and conventional marine fuels.
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