{"id":29494,"date":"2022-03-11T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/japan-presses-ahead-with-methanol-fuelled-tanker-project\/29494\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:15:03","slug":"japan-presses-ahead-with-methanol-fuelled-tanker-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/japan-presses-ahead-with-methanol-fuelled-tanker-project\/29494\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan presses ahead with methanol-fuelled tanker project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Six Japanese companies including Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Murakami Hide Shipbuilding have formed a strategic alliance to develop a methanol-fuelled domestic tanker for delivery by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The project has received public funding via the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>MOL, Japan\u2019s largest shipowner by fleet size, is spending considerable resources on methanol fuel developments. Last year, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/mol-buys-into-the-worlds-largest-methanol-tanker-fleet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MOL bought a 40% stake<\/a><\/span> in the world\u2019s most advanced methanol shipper, Waterfront Shipping (WFS), the tanker subsidiary of methanol producer Methanex.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/japan\/\" rel=\"tag\">Japan<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Japanese companies including Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Murakami Hide Shipbuilding have formed a strategic alliance to develop a methanol-fuelled domestic tanker for delivery by 2024. The project has received public funding via the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). MOL, Japan\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/29495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}