Wan Hai Lines has today announced that the WAN HAI 510 (also known as Tai Chun) has become its first vessel to run on biofuel.
The 4,333 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containership was bunkered with B24 biofuel – a blend of used cooking oil methyl ester biodiesel (UCOME) and very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) – in Singapore in collaboration with marine fuels firm KPI OceanConnect.
‘The adoption of biofuel is a crucial step in our journey towards carbon reduction,’ the company said in a statement.
‘We have a responsibility to seek more environmentally friendly solutions and further achieve the goal of ESG energy-saving and carbon reduction by using low-carbon fuels across our fleet.’
The WAN HAI 510 is currently operating on the CI6 route across the Far East and India.