The shipping methanol era could soon be upon us. In fact, the Finnish group Wärtsilä has secured a maxi order from the Dutch shipbuilding company Van Oord for producing five engines running on CH₃OH.
The engines will be mounted on a new vessel to be used for installing offshore wind turbines. The newbuilding will be built for Van Oord at the Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard in China.
Harold Linssen, project director, Van Oord. said that his company considered methanol as one of the alternatives for meeting the industry’s goals to reduce its environmental impact
Translation by Giles Foster
