China Shipping & Sinopec Suppliers completes first methanol STS bunkering op on Yangtze River
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China Shipping & Sinopec Suppliers Co Ltd on Monday (8 September) said it completed the first ship-to-ship methanol bunkering operation in a shipyard in China and the first of such service on the major shipping route along Yangtze River.
On 6 September, the company, with the cooperation of SIPG Energy (Shanghai) Co Ltd, successfully completed the bunkering of more than 2,000 metric tonnes (mt) of methanol fuel to the 20,000 TEU ultra-large methanol dual-fuel container ship COSCO Shipping Libra at the Changxing Island Base Terminal of COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry in Shanghai.
The receiving ship, COSCO Shipping Libra, was retrofitted to utilise methanol marine fuel, which is of significance for the accelerated green transformation of Shanghai International Shipping Centre.
“In the future, the company will continue to increase investment in infrastructure and work with all parties to build a safe, stable and sustainable marine new energy supply system to safeguard the green transformation of China’s shipping industry,” the company said.
Photo credit: China Shipping & Sinopec Suppliers
Published: 10 September, 2025
