MTM Ship Management is the latest company to successfully complete a transatlantic voyage on biofuel blended bunkers.
Encouraged by the performance of the 51,300-dwt tanker MTM Colorado (built 2004), which burned B30 biofuel on a trip between the Netherlands and Brazil in December, the company said on Friday that it will follow up with even more ambitious trials.
“We are aiming to do trials with bio-VLSFO [very low sulphur fuel oil] blends of B50 and a pure B100 biofuel,” Dimitris Harbis, business development director at the MTM Maritime...
