Hydrogen One, The World's First Methanol-Powered Tugboat, Will Arrive in 2023 in The Shipping Industry

Hydrogen One, The World’s First Methanol-Powered Tugboat, Will Arrive in 2023 in The Shipping Industry

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 01/12/2021 at 13:13

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The Sustainability of the Naval Industry Takes Its First Steps and in 2023 Will Welcome the First Methanol-Powered Tugboat from Maritime Partners, Known as Hydrogen One

Maritime Partners, in cooperation with e1 Marine, ABB, and Elliott Bay Design Group, announces that the first methanol-powered tugboat, known as Hydrogen One, will join Maritime’s fleet and will be available in the naval industry for charter in 2023, aiming to meet the demand for cleaner and more sustainable tugboat operations.

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Sustainability in the Naval Industry Advances with Methanol-Powered Tugboat

The decarbonization of the naval industry in the tugboat sector faces several challenges, primarily due to size, space, and weight limitations of a tugboat. The use of batteries is only viable in fixed route operations, where vessels can be recharged daily. Additionally, the limited storage capacity of a tugboat restricts the use of cryogenically stored and pressurized gases as fuels.

Another impacting factor is the infrastructure, as there are few facilities at docks for refueling these marine fuels, severely restricting the functionality and autonomy of a vessel.

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Methanol Allows for Safe and Quick Refueling

Methanol is a conventional fuel for tugboats in the naval industry and is available in most of the world’s major ports. This availability enables refueling safely almost anywhere, without requiring any detours.

According to Maritime Partners’ co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Austin Sperry, shipowners have hesitated to commit to more sustainable fuels until the infrastructure is available to refuel the vessels. The new vessel arriving in the naval industry resolves this issue by using methanol, which is available worldwide and is still safe.

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The Pure Outboard from the electric boat company features innovative efficiency that provides performance advantages, reducing environmental damage and also lowering operational and maintenance costs.

Hydrogen One, The World’s First Methanol-Powered Tugboat, Will Arrive in 2023 in The Shipping Industry

The Sustainability of the Naval Industry Takes Its First Steps and in 2023 Will Welcome the First Methanol-Powered Tugboat from Maritime Partners, Known as Hydrogen One

Read Other Related News

Sustainability in the Naval Industry Advances with Methanol-Powered Tugboat

Methanol Allows for Safe and Quick Refueling

GM Invests in Sustainability in the Naval Industry

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Hydrogen One, The World’s First Methanol-Powered Tugboat, Will Arrive in 2023 in The Shipping Industry

The Sustainability of the Naval Industry Takes Its First Steps and in 2023 Will Welcome the First Methanol-Powered Tugboat from Maritime Partners, Known as Hydrogen One

Read Other Related News

Sustainability in the Naval Industry Advances with Methanol-Powered Tugboat

Methanol Allows for Safe and Quick Refueling

GM Invests in Sustainability in the Naval Industry

A giant printer called the “Ferrari” of concrete has landed in Latin America and can already build a 120-square-meter house in just 48 hours, making the traditional construction site look like something from the last century.

Brazil will harvest a record crop of up to 357 million tons of grains, but it does not have the capacity to store a large part of it. The storage deficit has reached the highest level in history and is equivalent to almost the entire production of Argentina.

Four times faster than the Concorde, capable of taking passengers from New York to London in less than an hour at Mach 5.5, and with an engine that switches from turbojet to ramjet mid-flight at Mach 3.5, the Hermeus Quarterhorse went from paper to its first flight in just 19 months.

SpaceX will dock a $843 million vehicle to the International Space Station to push a nearly 420-ton laboratory against the atmosphere and make the debris fall in a controlled manner into the ocean.

China opens the world’s first school where more than 100 humanoid robots from different brands will study together, each movement will be repeated up to 600 times a day and the data will feed a collective brain that will teach all the robots of the future.

Scientists considered detonating 213 nuclear bombs in the Sahara to create an artificial sea the size of El Salvador, with each explosion being a hundred times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, and the goal was to generate more energy than Egypt’s largest hydroelectric plant.

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