HMM Lines Up Methanol and LNG Fuel Supply in Shanghai Port

Mike Schuler April 3, 2024

South Korean ocean carrier HMM has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), China’s largest port operator, on the supply methanol and liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker fuel at the Port of Shanghai.

HMM says the establishment of port bunkering infrastructure for clean marine fuels is critical to achieving its net-zero emissions by 2050 commitment.

As part of this, HMM has already signed contracts for the construction of its first nine methanol-powered vessels with a capacity of 9,000 TEU each. The company also anticipates the operation of two 7,700 TEU LNG-powered vessels by the end of the year.

HMM said the MoU also supports carbon reduction goals, promotes global shipping new energy cooperation, and aids in shipping energy transformation and sustainable development.

Since 2022, SIPG has offered bonded LNG bunkering services to several global shipping companies. HMM says all preparations for green methanol bunkering in Shanghai Port have been completed.

“Through this cooperation with SIPG, we have expanded our green fuel supply chain in China, following Korea and Singapore. We will continue to strive for various efforts to find a way to go green,” said an HMM official.

https://gcaptain.com/hmm-lines-up-methanol-and-lng-fuel-supply-in-shanghai-port/

Since methanol is wood alcohol and easily made from grass clippings and fallen trees there will need to be a place making the stuff

HMM在上海港安排甲醇和液化天然气燃料供应

迈克*舒勒2024年4月3日

韩国远洋运输公司HMM已与中国最大的港口运营商上海国际港口集团（Sipg）签署了一份谅解备忘录（MoU），就在上海港供应甲醇和液化天然气（LNG）船用燃料。

HMM表示，为清洁船用燃料建立港口燃料补给基础设施对于实现其2050净零排放承诺至关重要。

作为其中的一部分，HMM已经签署了建造其前九艘甲醇动力船的合同，每艘船的容量为9,000TEU。 该公司还预计到今年年底将运营两艘7,700TEU液化天然气动力船。

HMM表示，该谅解备忘录还支持碳减排目标，促进全球航运新能源合作，并协助航运能源转型和可持续发展。

自2022年以来，SIPG已为多家全球航运公司提供保税液化天然气燃料补给服务。 HMM说，上海港绿色甲醇燃料补给的所有准备工作已经完成。

"通过与SIPG的合作，我们在韩国和新加坡之后扩大了中国的绿色燃料供应链。 我们将继续努力寻找绿色道路，"一位HMM官员说。

https://gcaptain.com/hmm-lines-up-methanol-and-lng-fuel-supply-in-shanghai-port/

"由于甲醇是木材酒精，很容易由草屑和倒下的树木制成，因此需要有一个制作这些东西的地方"

香港成为全球班轮网络重新设计的第一个主要受害者

山姆*钱伯斯2024年4月1日

这个世界上下降最快的主要集装箱港口将在未来几年进一步大幅下降。

香港在20年前是世界上最大的集装箱港口，但越来越多的国际班轮避开了香港。

主要的联盟，双子座合作，联盟和海洋联盟，都公布了他们今年和明年的网络变化，香港取消了许多航线。 对于马士基和哈马格–劳埃德之间的新联盟双子座来说，中国南方城市根本没有直接港口的特色。

丹麦咨询公司Sea-Intelligence的一份新报告说："这对香港港口来说并不是一个好兆头，但也应该被视为一个迹象，表明网络整合的一个要素正在进行，特别是与转运枢纽有关。"

根据Sea-Intelligence，对网络设计和网络效率的分析表明，更少但更大的集线器在经济上更有效。

该咨询公司在其最新的周报中称，香港似乎是第一个主要的"受害者"，警告说，更多的港口可能面临同样的命运。

过去十年，香港的连通性持续下降。

英国顾问公司Drewry的数据显示，去年香港的集装箱吞吐量下降了14%，至1430万teu，是去年全球最大港口中跌幅最大的一个。 广东城市现在在全球boxport联盟中排名第10位。

香港作为一个主要集装箱港口的衰落，在最近在当地外国记者俱乐部举行的一次活动中，一些主要船东讨论了香港作为一个主要集装箱港口的衰落

香港船东协会主席安加德*班加（Angad Banga）告诉与会者，伦敦或瑞士等地向与会者展示了香港如何发展成为国际海运中心，而不管港口数量下降。

班加认为，香港作为一个"高成本管辖区"不应该竞争集装箱，另一位小组成员华信航运董事长蒂姆*赫胥黎（Tim Huxley）也赞同这一观点。

赫胥黎说："在船上和船上吊运金属箱并不是一个全球土地成本最高的城市应该做的高价值业务。"他提醒与会者，该市也是全球三家最大的全球码头运营商的总部，中远(COSCO)、招商局(China Merchants)和和记黄埔(Hutchison Ports)都在那里注册。

https://splash247.com/hong-kong-becomes-first-major-victim-of-global-liner-network-redesigns/

>>20703043 (me)

Original English version:

Hong Kong becomes first major victim of global liner network redesigns

Sam Chambers April 1, 2024

The world’s most rapidly declining major container port is braced for further huge throughput drops in the coming couple of years.

Hong Kong, which 20 years ago was the largest container port in the world, is increasingly being shunned by global liners.

The major alliances, Gemini Cooperation, THE Alliance and Ocean Alliance, have all unveiled their network changes for this year and next with Hong Kong deselected for many routes. For Gemini – the new alliance between Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd – the southern Chinese city does not feature as a direct port at all.

“This does not bode well for the Port of Hong Kong, but should also be seen as a sign that an element of network consolidation is afoot, especially related to transhipment hubs,” stated a new report from Danish consultancy Sea-Intelligence.

Analysis of network design and network efficiency shows that fewer, but larger, hubs are economically more efficient, according to Sea-Intelligence.

Hong Kong appears to be the first major “victim” of this, the consultancy argued in its latest weekly report, warning that more ports could risk the same fate.

Connectivity for Hong Kong has been on a consistent decline over the last decade.

Container throughput in Hong Kong fell 14% last year to 14.3m teu, the biggest percentage drop among the world’s biggest ports last year, according to data from UK consultants Drewry. The Cantonese city now lies in 10th place in the global boxport league.

Hong Kong’s decline as a major container port was discussed by some of the city’s leading shipowners at a recent event at the local Foreign Correspondents’ Club

Angad Banga, chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, told attendees that the likes of London or Switzerland showed how Hong Kong can develop as an international maritime centre, regardless of declining port numbers.

Hong Kong as a “high cost jurisdiction” ought not to compete for containers, Banga argued, a point of view echoed by another panellist, Tim Huxley, the chairman of Mandarin Shipping.

“Lifting metal boxes on and off ships is not the high value business that a global city with the highest land costs in the world should be doing,” Huxley said, reminding attendees that the city also was the headquarters for three of the world’s largest global terminal operators, with COSCO, China Merchants and Hutchison Ports all registered there.

https://splash247.com/hong-kong-becomes-first-major-victim-of-global-liner-network-redesigns/

中国重型起重船运载新的北极液化天然气2模块到俄罗斯尽管制裁

马尔特*亨伯特（gCaptain）-2024年5月10日

就在美国财政部批准四艘重型起重船将液化天然气技术运往俄罗斯的几天后，一艘迄今为止未经批准的船只Wei Xiao Tian Shi正在摩尔曼斯克途中。 这艘62,074载重吨的船载着诺瓦泰克北极液化天然气2项目的第三个生产列车的前两个液化天然气模块。

这艘船由中国海南微笑天使船运公司拥有，于3月底离开Wison近海和海洋舟山制造场，预计将于5月底抵达Novatek的Belokamenka建造场。

卫星图像显示该船在2024年3月18日至3月29日期间装载了两个模块。 还有两个模块留在院子里等待取货.

Wison Offshore的消息来源证实，Wei Xiao Tian Shi携带管架模块3-TMR-001和3-TMR-002。

传统上，这些模块是第一批安装的单元，将构成第三条生产线的核心。 每条生产线由14个模块组成,组装在一个巨大的浮动重力混凝土结构上.

北极LNG2列车的Wison近海图形,模块TMR-001和TMR-002突出显示. （来源：惠生）

2月，北极液化天然气2利益相关者TotalEnergies表示，第三列火车的建设已被搁置。 然而，第三列火车的初始模块出货表明Novatek可能打算完成最终生产线。

北极石油和天然气开发项目专家Ben Seligman解释说："谣言工厂现在真的会翻腾，因为train3模块正在前往Belokamenka。"

"早些时候的声明表明，北极液化天然气2项目的列车3已经被放弃，整个列车最终可能被重新用于摩尔曼斯克液化天然气，"塞利格曼证实。

Novatek尚未对摩尔曼斯克液化天然气做出最终投资决定，该项目将不早于2027开放。

为了减缓俄罗斯新建液化天然气工厂的速度，美国系统地对Novatek，其北极液化天然气2项目，组装场和众多重型起重船实施制裁。

新制裁的公司包括新加坡红盒能源服务公司，其船只Audax和Pugnax今年冬天在冰冻的北海航线上运载模块。

虽然这些措施在减缓建设方面取得了一些成功，但到目前为止，它们还无法阻止中国五个造船厂的预制液化天然气模块的运输。

这不是魏小天石第一次为北极液化天然气2运输液化天然气模块。 2023年9月，该船载有模块2-TMR-003和2-TMR-004。

当时这艘船被称为范周10号. 据船舶注册平台Equasis报道，该船最近经历了从江苏范洲船务公司到微笑天使船务的所有权变更。

https://gcaptain.com/chinese-heavy-lift-vessel-carrying-new-arctic-lng-2-modules-to-russia-despite-sanctions/

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Chinese Heavy Lift Vessel Carrying New Arctic LNG 2 Modules to Russia Despite Sanctions

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – May 10, 2024

Just days after the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned four heavy lift vessels for carrying LNG technology to Russia, a thus-far unsanctioned vessel Wei Xiao Tian Shi is en route Murmansk. The 62,074 dwt vessel is carrying the first two LNG modules for the third production train of Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 project.

The vessel, owned by Chinese Hainan Smiling Angel Shipping Company, departed from the Wison Offshore & Marine Zhoushan Fabrication Yard at the end of March and is expected to arrive at Novatek’s Belokamenka construction yard by the end of May.

Satellite images show the vessel loading two modules between March 18 and March 29, 2024. Two additional modules remain at the yard awaiting pickup.

Sources at Wison Offshore confirm Wei Xiao Tian Shi to be carrying pipe rack modules 3-TMR-001 and 3-TMR-002.

The modules are traditionally the first units to be installed and will form the core of the third production line. Each production line consists of 14 modules assembled atop a massive floating gravity-based concrete structure.

Wison Offshore graphic of an Arctic LNG 2 train, with modules TMR-001 and TMR-002 highlighted. (Source: Wison)

In February Arctic LNG 2 stakeholder TotalEnergies stated construction of the third train had been put on hold. However, the shipment of initial modules for the third train suggests that Novatek may intend to complete the final production line.

“The rumor mill will really be churning now, given that train 3 modules are on their way to Belokamenka,” explains Ben Seligman, a project specialist for Arctic oil and gas development.

“Earlier statements suggested train 3 of the Arctic LNG 2 project had been abandoned and the whole train could eventually be repurposed for Murmansk LNG,” confirms Seligman.

Novatek has yet to make a final investment decision for Murmansk LNG and the project is slated to open no earlier than 2027.

In an effort to slow down Russia’s construction of new LNG plants the U.S. has systematically levied sanctions against Novatek, its Arctic LNG 2 projects, the assembly yard and numerous heavy lift vessels.

Newly sanctioned companies include Singaporean Red Box Energy Services whose vessels Audax and Pugnax carried modules across the frozen Northern Sea Route this winter.

While the measures have had some success in slowing down construction, they have thus far been unable to stop the transport of prefabricated LNG modules from five shipyards across China.

This isn’t the first time Wei Xiao Tian Shi has transported LNG modules for Arctic LNG 2. In September 2023, the vessel carried modules 2-TMR-003 and 2-TMR-004.

At the time the ship was called Fan Zhou 10. According to ship registry platform Equasis, the vessel recently underwent an ownership change from Jiangsu Fanzhou Shipping Company to Smiling Angel Shipping.

https://gcaptain.com/chinese-heavy-lift-vessel-carrying-new-arctic-lng-2-modules-to-russia-despite-sanctions/