RoPax ferry bunkered with bioLNG
The operation to fuel the Peter Pan in Travemünde marks a significant milestone in renewable maritime fuel usage.
“We are delighted to be able to supply TT-Line’s RoPax ferries, a combination of passenger and vehicle ships, with our renewable fuel bioLNG,” said Markus Pille, managing director of EnviTec Energy.
TT-Line connects the German Baltic Sea ports of Travemünde and Rostock with Świnoujście in Poland and Klaipėda in Lithuania, as well as Sweden’s southern ports of Trelleborg and Karlshamn. The company annually transports around 1 million passengers, 250,000 cars and 500,000 freight units, making it the market leader for traffic to southern Sweden.
“Our Peter Pan, together with her sister ship Nils Holgersson, is the largest LNG-powered RoPax ferry in the world,” said Torben Nikolay, chief finance officer of TT-Line.
“These ferries represent far more to us than merely meeting legal requirements – we are preparing ourselves and our fleet as well as possible for a sustainable future.
“We have already carried out extensive bioLNG bunkerings by bunker barge this year and are now pleased to have found, in EnviTec Biogas, a German partner for particularly flexible bunkering by truck.”
Produced from organic waste such as slurry, poultry manure, food waste and agricultural residues, the biogas is upgraded via EnviThan technology and liquefied into bioLNG.
Germany’s largest integrated bioLNG plant at BioEnergie Park Güstrow enables EnviTec to act as an independent supplier of carbon-neutral fuel since 2023.
