NYK finalizes agreement with Japan Biofuels Supply LLP

NYK has concluded a three-year charter contract with Japan Biofuels Supply LLP (JBSL) that comes with an option to extend the contract for two additional years. A 37,000 DWT class chemical tanker will be used for shipments of the biofuel bio-ETBE (ethyl tertiary-butyl ether). JBSL, a partnership involving 10 major oil companies in Japan, has agreed to blend 840,000 kiloliters of bio-ETBE into gasoline in fiscal 2010 in response to the government’s request to achieve the emission reduction goals for Japan mentioned in the Kyoto protocol.