OCI Global will supply X-Press Feeders with green methanol at the port of Rotterdam from next year.
The milestone agreement is the first green methanol deal with a feeder container carrier. X-Press Feeders will be the first common feeder operator with methanol fuelled vessels on the water in Europe. In Q2 next year X-Press Feeders will receive the first of 14 dual fuel methanol vessels
Earlier this year OCI announced its partnership with Unibarge to retrofit the first methanol-powered bunker barge which will be deployed at the Port of Rotterdam.
OCI already has a similar deal in place with Maersk and has just fuelled the world’s first green methanol-powered container vessel which in making its way to Europe.
Shmuel Yoskovitz, CEO of X-Press Feeders, said his company aimed to become the “greener feeder carrier of choice”.
“X-Press Feeders’ partnership with OCI and the procurement of green methanol is the next logical decision in our journey towards our decarbonisation goal of net zero 2050,” Yoskovitz said.
