Shipping company CMA CGM has selected Shell to supply tens of thousands of tonnes of second-generation biofuel to its fleet. The fuel used is composed of eighty per cent Low Sulphur Fuel Oil and twenty per cent biofuel made of used cooking oil.
This quantity will allow the company’s ships to travel nearly one million kilometres on biofuel, which is equivalent to over eighty round-trips between Rotterdam and New York. The biofuel used is said to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by eighty per cent and virtually eliminates sulphur oxides emissions.
In 2019, CMA CGM was the first shipowner in the world to test the use of a marine biofuel onboard its container ships CMA CGM White Shark and Alexander von Humboldt.
Picture: Container ship CMA CGM White Shark in Miami (by Gary Bembridge).
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