CMA CGM has stepped up its investment into alternative fuels, launching a project to buy 12,000 tonnes of bio-methane on a guarantee-of-origin basis.

It noted that this amount of fuel would be enough to power two of its intra-Europe subsidiary Containerships’ 1,400 teu LNG-powered vessels, deployed on a St Petersburg-Rotterdam Baltic Sea feeder loop, for an entire year.

However, the company stressed that, acquiring the fuel did not mean it would be running the ships purely on bio-methane from next month; rather ...

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  • Andy Newbold

    April 09, 2021 at 2:52 pm

    Congratulations CMA-CGM on taking steps toward a more sustainable future!