Yara Marine aims to build a supply chain for ammonia bunkering

The collaboration will focus on exploring opportunities to supply clean ammonia as a marine fuel to ’first movers’ in the shipping industry along key trade routes and bunkering ports in various geographical regions.

“Our global assets and logistical footprint coupled with Bunker Holdings position as the world’s largest bunker player will bring safety, reliability and security of clean ammonia supply as shipping fuel and will add more resilience and robustness to developing this value chain in the future,” said Murali Srinivasan, SVP Commercial of Yara Clean Ammonia.

Supply chain

A newly signed MoU between the two companies connects two key elements of the supply chain needed to achieve the use of clean ammonia as a shipping fuel, namely a global supplier of clean ammonia and the largest bunker supplier today in terms of end users.

”We at Bunker Holding are committed to playing a leading role in facilitating the decarbonisation of the maritime sector and as such it is vital for us to collaborate with partners who can offer the market confidence around the scale and security of supply of low-carbon fuels,” said Valerie Ahrens, senior director, new fuels and carbon markets of Bunker Holding.

The two companies are behind the commercial adoption of ammonia as a marine fuel, they see it as being one of the most effective alternatives for decarbonising the industry.

They said that as of 2026, shipping companies are expected to expand the use of this sustainable fuel to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 100% on a full life cycle basis.

Yara Clean Ammonia operates the largest global ammonia network with 15 ships and access to 18 ammonia terminals and multiple ammonia production and consumption sites across the world.