First ship-to-ship biofuel bunkering for Japanese tug

The biofuel will be supplied via ship-to-ship bunkering, a first for Japan, and the tugboats will be operating on the fuel in July. The project has the support of the Nagoya Port Authority.

Part of the biofuel supplied on 19 April at the Nagoya Port Garden Pier by the Sanyo Kaiji–operated tug Taharamaru was recycled from waste cooking oil collected from the domestic Toyota Group and Toyota Tsusho Group companies.

The companies note that this initiative contributes to a circular economy by building a supply chain through local production and local consumption.

In June 2021, the NYK bulk carrier Frontier Jacaranda conducted a trial use of biofuel made from waste cooking oil collected and refined in Singapore. The test run was performed in cooperation with Anglo American, a global mining company, and Toyota Tsusho, a biofuel supplier, on a route to the Saldanha Bay, South Africa. This was the second test run performed, following one conducted by NYK bulk carrier Frontier Sky in Rotterdam port in 2019.