UECC vessels to sail on biomethane supplied by Titan

Oslo-based short sea roro provider United European Car Carriers (UECC) and LNG and BioLNG (LBM) supplier Titan Clean Fuels have signed a new deal that will see the vast majority of liquified gas supplied by Titan to UECC’s multi-fuel ships to have them run on biomethane (LBM/bio-LNG) for the remainder of 2024 and then most of 2025.

The use of LBM will offer UECC overcompliance with FuelEU Maritime across its overall fleet, the two partners said in their release on November 2, allowing the short sea roro provider UECC, which operates a fleet of pure car and truck carriers, to explore pooling and banking options.

Since the beginning of July over 95% of the fuel delivered to UECC’s pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) by Titan has been LBM.

Titan claims in its analysis that the quantity of LBM in 2025, which Titan and UECC are realistically targeting, will avoid more than 75,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases being emitted.

That reduction, Titan said, is equivalent to the annual emissions of around 10,000 EU citizens or 540 million kilometers driven in an average car.