bp Marine, part of bp’s trading and shipping business, has entered into a long-term supply agreement with integrated transport company StraitNZ, which includes the supply of marine biofuels in the port of Wellington. StraitNZ’s network includes Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferries that connects the north and south islands between Wellington and Picton with 50 freight... [Read More]

Ireland-based College Group has become the latest company to join EWABA. Originally founded in 1989 as a rendering company, College Group has grown into being the country’s leading circula economy business with rendering, biodiesel, fertiliser and renewable divisions. In 2020, College Group constructed its state-of-the-art waste-based biodiesel facility at Nobber in... [Read More]

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released its Assessment of BQ-9000 Biodiesel Properties for 2022 with more data collected than ever before. The annual report is produced under the direction of Clean Fuels Alliance America to document the quality of biodiesel from US and Canadian-based producers that participate in the industry’s voluntary quality assurance... [Read More]

Portugal's environment regulator has approved a project by Galp to produce biodiesel and SAF using cooking oils at its Sines refinery. Galp aims to build a Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) plant, with an initial investment of €269 million at its refinery south of Lisbon, where it plans to install its first 100-megawatt (MW) green hydrogen unit. The green light from... [Read More]

Soybean exports from Brazil are forecast to reach a record 97 million tonnes in 2022/23, according to latest estimates by the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove). June’s estimate for Brazilian shipments was 95.7 million tonnes and the new estimate was 23.2% higher than the previous year’s total of 78.7 million tonnes, the 27 June report said.... [Read More]

Transdev has completed switching its fleet across its 10 operating centres in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester to the high blend biodiesel fuel. The transport company has partnered with fuel provider Argent Fuels to achieve this aim. Operations director Vitto Pizzuti said: “The biodiesel fuel we’re now using across our fleet is a high-blend B15 formation,... [Read More]

Asahi Tanker has conducted bunkering for the ocean-going LPG carrier Buena Reina with marine biofuel (B24). Buena Reina was chartered by Marubeni Corporation and the operation took place in Tokyo Bay, the largest port in Japan. The marine biofuel is a blend of conventional bunker fuel oil (VLSFO) and approximately 24% biofuel. The biofuel is composed of biomass (organic... [Read More]

Repsol has announced it will invest more than €120 million to retrofit an ageing diesel plant to produce second-generation biofuels, Reuters reported. The Spanish oil company aims to produce two million tons of low-carbon fuels by 2030, tripling the capacity it had at the beginning of this decade. The Puertollano plant, built in the 1960s, will start producing biofuels... [Read More]

EU member states imported significantly less palm oil in the marketing year 2022/23 than the previous year. The decline in imports was especially strong in the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium. From July 2022 through to the end of June this year, the EU-27 imported just under 4 million tonnes of palm oil. This was around 934,000 tonnes or 19% less than the year before.... [Read More]

The new generation of DAF trucks are ready to operate on 100% HVO. In addition to the introduction of a complete series of fully electric trucks and the development of hydrogen technology, DAF is getting its combustion engines ready for new types of fuel to further reduce CO₂ emissions. HVO – hydrotreated vegetable oil – is a biofuel of the latest generation that... [Read More]

Royal Mail is to fuel some of its heavy good vehicles (HGVs) with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Royal Mail's Sheffield mail centre, Midlands Super Hub and Manchester vehicle operating centres will be the first sites to transition to HVO with four more locations to follow later on. The locations have been chosen based on where HGVs move significant volumes for major... [Read More]

EWABA has welcomed German-based trader Gelsenkraft as one of its newest members. The company was founded in 2010 in Coesfeld and it opened an office in Murcia, Spain, in 2013. The company trades energetic bio-based raw materials such as oils and fats as well as biofuel certified according to the Renewable Energy Directive of the European Union (ISCC/REDcert). Gelsenkraft... [Read More]

EU-27 rapeseed imports from non-EU countries exceeded the previous year's volume of 5.5 million tonnes coming in at 7.3 million tonnes. This translated to a 33% rise while European soybean imports have fallen short of the previous year's level. EU soybean imports declined to around 13 million tonnes in 2022/23. Brazil and the USA remained the most important suppliers,... [Read More]

Peninsula has completed its first sustainable biofuel delivery to DS Norden. The successful supply took place on 19 June in Gibraltar. Peninsula’s BIO blend (VLSFO B24) was derived from used cooking oil (UCO) and delivered by the chemical tanker, Hercules Sky, one of the latest vessels to join the Peninsula fleet. The receiving vessel was Norden’s 62,594 dwt bulk... [Read More]

K Line Port Service conducted a test voyage with the tugboat Aihomaru using next-generation biodiesel in Nagoya Port in Japan. Biodiesel fuel is carbon neutral defined in the IPCC guidelines and can be used without changing the specifications of existing marine diesel engines by mixed combustion with heavy fuel oil - the main fuel for ships. The biodiesel supplied... [Read More]

Suttons Tankers has embarked on an eight-week trial using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as an alternative fuel aligned to its environmental strategy. HVO is a sustainable fuel source with a significantly lower carbon footprint than diesel, reducing CO2 emissions by a minimum of 85%. The alternative fuel is compatible with existing diesel engines without any need... [Read More]