Mabanaft supplies B30 marine biofuel to Hapag-Lloyd

Energy company Mabanaft has reached an agreement with shipping company Hapag-Lloyd to supply B30 marine biofuel.

On 12 December, Mabanaft’s Waltershof tank farm in the German port of Hamburg will make the first test delivery of 1,000 metric tonnes of B30 very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) to the container ship Delaware Express.

The delivery, the company says, follows ‘extensive analyses of possible bio-constituents that Mabanaft could add to the B30 biofuel’.

All options were analysed for quality and potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The agreement with Hapag-Lloyd will initially supply 1,000 tonnes of B30.

More will be available in 2025.