Maritime organisations partner to create guidelines for ammonia fuel

07 Sep 2023

The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) and the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) will work together for the next two years to develop guidelines on the use of ammonia as a marine fuel. On Thursday (Sep 7), both organisations inked a two-year Coalition Partnership agreement at Gastech 2023, an industry event held at the Singapore Expo. In April, GCMD and its appointed consultant, DNV Maritime Advisory, completed a nine-month ammonia bunkering safety study with support from Surbana Jurong and SP’s Singapore Maritime Academy. The two organisations said that the study, which included input from various industry partners and regulatory agencies, “deepened collective knowledge for future safe ammonia bunkering, ahead of ammonia bunker tankers and ammonia-propelled vessels becoming available”.

[The Business Times]