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A methanol-powered container ship by Danish shipping company Maersk entered the Port of Hamburg for the first time early Thursday morning. The Ane Maersk is the first large, methanol-capable container ship from the Danish shipping company and has a capacity of more than 16,000 standard containers (TEU). Over the next two years, Maersk plans to put 17 more container ships of this size into operation, which will be fuelled with so-called green methanol. The company says these larger ships can save
Danish tugboat operator and Maersk subsidiary Svitzer will conduct a field test on the dual-fuel methanol MAN 175D engine on a newbuild tugboat under an initial agreement.