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Im guessing that container ships don’t need much refueling? If the ship runs into issues I wonder if they have to ground it until they can ship the methanol to
by pm90 3y ago
Im guessing that container ships don’t need much refueling? If the ship runs into issues I wonder if they have to ground it until they can ship the methanol to it.
- icegreentea2 3y agoIt's a dual fuel ship - it can still run on fuel oil.
- denimnerd42 3y agoso is this methanol in harbor / emissions zones and fuel oil at sea? Does it run on diesel too?
- icegreentea2 3y agoThe main engine can run on fuel oil and methanol/LPG. They claim they can have 40k km of range on methonol. What they actually do in operation is of course different from what they're able to do.
- denimnerd42 3y agoyeah I wonder how the costs compare at current day prices. they aren't going to run methanol if its more expensive.
- bombcar 3y agoThey will if they can get someone to pay the difference; either because of carbon credits or advertising or whatever.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoApparently not; large container ships have a range of 10.000 - 20.000 miles on a single tank of fuel. These things are huge, and I can imagine they don't even need to compromise on storage space for fuel tanks (just like planes have fuel in the wings so their cargo capacity is maximised)
- bombcar 3y agoThey can do that because they can carry 2-4.5 million gallons of fuel; 16,000 cubic meters. That's taking some space somewhere, usually between the double hulls on the bottom of the ship.