Monjasa completes first biofuels delivery in the UAE

On 9 March 2022, the 9,600dwt Monjasa-owned tanker, Monjasa Server supplied the Great Eastern Shipping Company tanker, Jag Prerana, with 233 metric tonnes of B20 biofuel. Ahead of delivery, the product blending was performed on board the Monjasa Server.

B20 biofuel blend consists of 20% biodiesel made exclusively from cooking oil waste and 80% VLSFO and meets ISO 8217 marine fuel standards.

Monjasa’s Group Responsibility Director, Jesper Nielsen said: “Monjasa’s role in this transition is to become an enabler of the logistics of environmentally friendly fuels. In oil and shipping we are all connected and the journey towards offering alternative fuels at scale relies on forming new partnerships and exploring where Monjasa can add most value to the maritime infrastructure in the short, medium and long term.”

Commercial Director at Monjasa Middle East & Africa, Moustapha El Maghlouk, said: “By promoting new partnerships with Uniper and Neutral Fuels, Monjasa is present at the production site and throughout the supply chain to understand the full spectrum of logistics needed to make this project a success. With our combined synergies across fuel sourcing, production and logistics, we are confident of building a scalable biofuel option and we are already receiving interest for biofuel-blends from several shipping companies operating in the Middle East.”

Emanuele Gallone, Business Development Manager at Uniper Energy DMCC said: “We are thankful to Monjasa for successfully enabling the logistics and ensuring progress on our joint mission to support the decarbonisation of the shipping industry. Handling biofuels differs significantly from traditional marine fuels and it has been important to Uniper to guarantee safe and seamless delivery at sea to the end user together with Monjasa.”

Monjasa also provides transparency on CO2-emissions across fossil-based fuel products delivered. Through a unique industry role between upstream partners and downstream end users, Monjasa has developed a level of granularity that for the first time provides shipowners with accurate and real-time CO2 emissions-data linked to each individual fuel order placed with Monjasa.